News & Announcements Archive

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 […]

PhD Student Aditya Bahl Receives Mintz Fellowship Award

The Department of English is pleased to announce current third year graduate student Aditya Bahl has been awarded a Sidney Mintz Student Fellowship for summer field research. Inaugurated by Prof. […]

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

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

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 […]

Fourth Year Graduate Student Highlighted for Intersession Course

Fourth Year Graduate Student Highlighted for Intersession Course

The Department of English is proud to announce fourth year student Alex Streim has been highlighted for his work on his Intersession course, “Poetry and Climate Change.” “Climate change affects […]

Recent PhD Graduate Employment

The English department is proud to announce the placement of recent PhD graduates in their full-time employment positions: Grant Shreve, Writer, Office of the Provost at Johns Hopkins University Katarina […]

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson Receives Discovery Award

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson Receives Discovery Award

The English Department is proud to announce Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson is the 2019 recipient of the Johns Hopkins Discovery Award. More than ever, the answers to the most […]