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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Despite a struggling labor market and emerging technologies that emphasize the importance of STEM fields, an English degree is as useful as ever, says Professor Mark Christian Thompson.

The African Novel of Ideas by Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson has been selected as one of fifty-five most anticipated books of 2021, by Brittle Paper. The African Novel of Ideas focuses […]

According to an article published in the Johns Hopkins Student News-Letter, Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s undergraduate course, Advanced Introduction to African Literature, has been named as one of the best undergraduate […]

Professor Douglas Mao has released his latest monograph, Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice​, which has been published by the Princeton University Press. Professor Mao has also edited a […]