Professor Sharon Achinstein moderates a discussion with Charles W. Mills (City University of New York), Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University), and Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University) about the ways […]
News & Announcements Archive
Graduate Students Daniel McClurkin and Mitchell Cram Teach Summer BLAST Courses
The English Department is proud to announce two current graduate students, Daniel McClurkin (Medieval irish Sagas) and Mitchell Cram (Science and Utopian Fiction), have been selected to teach two of […]
Professor Sharon Achinstein Awarded Selma V. Forkosch Article Prize
The Department of English is proud to announce Professor Sharon Achinstein has been awarded the Selma V. Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of Ideas. JHI awards the Selma […]
Graduate Student Alexandra Lossada Named Gender and Racial Justice Scholar
The English Department is proud to announce graduate student Alexandra Lossada has been named one of this year’s Gender and Racial Justice Scholars. The award is designed to support student […]
Jeanne-Marie Jackson named Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Associate Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson has been named to the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Each fellow receives $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that addresses important […]
Graduate Student Evan Loker Receives AGHI Graduate Research Fellowship
The Department of English is proud to announce current graduate student Evan Loker has received an Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Graduate Research Fellowship for the Spring 2022 semester. This is […]
Professor Chris Nealon Named John Dewey Professor
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the Board of Trustees has approved the President’s recommendation, at the behest of Chris Celenza, that Chris Nealon be named the John Dewey […]
Graduate Student Jarvis Young Selected as Speaker for Humanities For All Lecture Series
The Community College of Baltimore County has named Jarvis Young as one of their speakers for their ongoing Humanities For All Lecture Series. Each semester, the Mellon Scholars Lectures Series […]
Esteemed Literary Critic J. Hillis Miller Passes at Age 92
The English Department mourns the passing of J. Hillis Miller, Jr., a major literary critic and theorist who taught at Johns Hopkins from 1953 to 1972, and served as senior member […]
Professor Chris Nealon’s Book Shortlisted for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award
The English Department is proud to announce Professor Chris Nealon’s book, “The Shore,” has been named as a finalist in the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for their poetry […]