News & Announcements Archive


The English Department Welcomes Prof. Mary Favret

The English department is delighted to welcome Professor Mary Favret to Johns Hopkins. Professor Favret is a specialist in British Romanticism, and late 18th- and early 19th-century literature in English. Her first book, Romantic Correspondence (1993), investigates the ways in which letters in the Romantic period become the vehicle for a political, disruptive force. War at […]


Prof. Douglas Mao Assumes Senior Editorial Role at ELH

This summer, Professor Douglas Mao became senior editor of ELH, the renowned journal of literary criticism that has issued from the Johns Hopkins English Department since 1934. Professor Mao looks forward to continuing the ELH tradition of publishing first-rate scholarship on literatures in English from all periods and without restriction as to methodology or theoretical approach. […]


Prof. Drew Daniel Featured in A&S Magazine

As one half of the instrumental electronic duo Matmos, Daniel has toured with well-known singer Bjork, performed at the Guggenheim, and DJ’ed at Yoko Ono’s art opening in San Francisco. And as an associate professor in Hopkins’ English department, he spends several months a year lecturing on Shakespeare. Click to read the article in Arts & Sciences Magazine.


In Memoriam, Allen Grossman: January 7, 1932-June 27, 2014

Allen Grossman, an award-winning poet who joined Johns Hopkins University's English Department in 1991 as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, died June 27 in Chelsea, Mass. He was 82. Click to continue reading.


JHU Press Blog Post by English Major

Laura Ewen
"Reflections of a Marketing Intern": Click to read a terrific blog post by JHU English major Laura Ewen, which appears on the JHU Press Blog today.


Announcing the English Senior Essay Award

The Department of English is pleased to announce the establishment of an award of $250 for the best essay by a senior English major. The award will be presented each spring prior to graduation and will be included officially in the university commencement program. Made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous alumni donor, […]