Professor Nadia Nurhussein of the English Department has had her book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, selected as a finalist in this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award. This […]
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Statement from the English Department
The Johns Hopkins Department of English has watched with horror the continued state-sanctioned murder of Black Americans, and the violent repression of principled dissent that followed. We condemn the militarization […]
Professor Nadia Nurhussein named 2020 Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History
Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 […]
More 2020 Graduate Student Publications
This is the second of two reports on recent publications by our current graduate students. We’re proud of all their accomplishments. Sede Makonnen has had two essays appear recently. “Our Blackamoor […]
Graduate Student Publications
The past two years have been characteristically productive ones for English Department graduate students–productive in many different ways. We’re happy to report here on some of their recent publications; more […]
PhD Student Royce Best Receives AGHI Fellowship
The Department of English is proud to announce current sixth year graduate student Royce Best has been selected as a recipient of the 2021 Spring Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Fellowship. These […]
PhD Student Thai-Catherine Matthews Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship
The Department of English is proud to announce third year graduate student Thai-Catherine Matthews is the recipient of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The Gates Cambridge program was established in 2000 […]
Graduate Student Sungmey Lee Publishes Articles
Current seventh year graduate student Sungmey Lee has recently had two articles published: “George Eliot’s Home-Scene: Folk Nationalism and the Politics of Nature in The Mill on the Floss” in […]
Professor Mary Favret Awarded Keats-Shelley Distinguished Scholar
The Department of English is proud to announce that Professor Mary Favret was presented the Keats-Shelley Distinguished Scholar Award at this year’s Modern Language Association conference in Seattle, in recognition […]