Professor Mary Favret has received a research fellowship awarded by UCLA’s Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies.  She will be spending two months this Fall at the William Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles to complete her research.

The Department of English is proud to announce Sarah Liu, a junior undergraduate English major, just won the Summer 2018 Special Collections DURA application for her project, “Book Illustration in Shakespeare and Racine,” funded jointly by the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center of the Sheridan Libraries and the Charles S. Singleton Center for the […]

The English Department held its first Graduate Showcase on May 7, 2018. Proposed as an opportunity to give graduate students a platform on which to share current research, presenters and audience members alike received the event with great enthusiasm. Split into two sessions, eight graduate students presented or pre-circulated working conference papers and forthcoming dissertation […]

The English Department is proud to announce Will Theodorou, Undergraduate Senior, is the recipient of a Fulbright Award overseen by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, to teach English in a Bulgarian secondary school. The Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the […]

The English Department is proud to announce Prof. Doug Mao is the recipient of this year’s Faculty Graduate Teaching/Mentoring Award. A student nominator wrote “Doug is a fascinating and engaging classroom presence. He also taught me in word and example how to build a career: how to navigate conferences and symposia, how to connect to […]

The English Department is proud to announce Aliza Watters, Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program, has earned this year’s title of Faculty Undergraduate Teaching Award. “Professor Watters has pushed the boundaries of our Expository Writing class in an engaging, thought-provoking manner, daring us to question the limits of creative nonfiction and grapple with text like […]

Before Frederick Douglass became a world-famous abolitionist, orator, and writer, he worked as a slave on plantations on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and in Baltimore shipyards. Students in the Prof. Lawrence Jackson’s graduate English seminar “Mapping Frederick Douglass” researched and visited regional sites of significance in the young slave’s life, plotting the locations on digital maps […]

In the book review, the New York Times declares Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson’s research "unimpeachable." Chester B. Himes: A Biography is "neatly written and accessible, without cheap tricks to build suspense or sway readers’ opinions."

The English department is delighted to welcome Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon to Johns Hopkins. Christopher Cannon works on medieval literature and, in particular, the emergence of ‘English literature’ as a meaningful category.  He has traced that emergence conceptually (in the intellectual contexts in which it developed), philologically (in the history of English) and, comparatively […]