News & Announcements Archive

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 […]

Recent PhD Recipient Joseph Haley Receives Mellon/ACLS Fellowship

The Department of English is proud to announce that Joseph Haley, who received his PhD in English from Johns Hopkins University in 2016, has been named a 2019 Mellon/ACLS Public […]

Congratulations to our Graduating Seniors!

Congratulations to our Graduating Seniors!

On May 22nd the Department of English hosted a reception honoring the achievements of twenty-three graduating senior majors and seven graduating senior minors. The Department is proud to congratulate our […]

Spring 2019 Graduate Showcase

Spring 2019 Graduate Showcase

The English Department hosted its second annual Graduate Student Showcase on May 3, 2019. A new fixture of Hopkins English, the Showcase provides students with an opportunity to present current […]

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

The Department of English is proud to announce Professor Lawrence Jackson has been named along with Professor Matthew Porterfield 2019 Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious distinction that recognizes achievements and exceptional […]

Graduate Student Joel Childers Receives AGHI Research Fellowship

The Department of English is proud to announce fifth year graduate student Joel Childers has been awarded the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Graduate Research Fellowship for the Spring 2020 semester. […]

Professor Christopher Cannon Receives IDIES Seed Funding

The Department of English is pleased to announce Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon’s proposal titled “The History of Meter and the History of English Grammar” in collaboration with Sayeed Choudhury and […]

English Graduate Students Receive Women, Gender, and Sexuality Fellowships

The English Department is proud to announce two current graduate students have received the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fellowship awards: Sungmey Lee, a current sixth year student, will teach […]