The Department of English is pleased to announce the arrival of Prof. Ankhi Mukerjee for the Spring term. Prof. Mukherjee, who is John Hinkley Visiting Professor this semester, is Professor […]
News & Announcements Archive
English Graduate Students Receive Mellon Humanities Collaboratory Fellowships
The Department of English is proud to announce three graduate students have been awarded The Mellon Humanities Collaboratory Fellowship: Thai-Catherine Matthews, a second year graduate student Samanda Robinson, a second […]
Second Year Graduate Student Highlighted for Intersession Course
The Department of English is proud to announce second year student Samanda Robinson has been highlighted for her work on her Intersession course, ” Black Science Fiction and Social Justice.” […]
Department of English Graduate Students Receive Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Awards
The Department of English is proud to announce seven graduate students have been awarded Dean’s Teaching Fellowships for the 2019-202 academic year. Those who have been named award winners are: […]
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson Named Gilman Scholar
The Department of English is proud to announce Professor Lawrence Jackson has been named a Gilman Scholar. Named for the university’s visionary first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, the designation goes […]
English Undergraduates Receive Award
The Department of English is proud to announce that two undergraduate students, Jack Klein and Sarah Liu, are two of the recipients of this year’s PURA cohort. Klein’s project, “Shifting […]
Graduate Student Fall ’18 Publications
The Department of English is proud to announce current graduate students who have obtained recent publications. Royce Best, a fifth year graduate student, has had his article titled “Write as I […]
Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity Conference
The English Department and Prof. Sharon Achinstein are proud to be hosting the Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity Conference. This is an all-day event taking place on […]
Professor Mary Favret Receives Research Fellowship
Professor Mary Favret has received a research fellowship awarded by UCLA’s Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. She will be spending two months this Fall at the William Clark Memorial Library […]
Grant Awarded to English Professors Mary Favret and Christopher Cannon, and Shane Butler of Classics
The Dean’s office has awarded its first-ever Dean’s Inter-disciplinary Project Grant to a seminar titled “The Sensorium of Reading,” organized by two English faculty, Professors Mary Favret and Chris Cannon, […]