News & Announcements Archive

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

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 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, […]

Junior English Major Wins Award

Junior English Major Wins Award

The Department of English is proud to announce Sarah Liu, a junior undergraduate English major, just won the Summer 2018 Special Collections DURA application for her project, “Book Illustration in […]

The Department of English Hosts First Graduate Showcase

The Department of English Hosts First Graduate Showcase

The English Department held its first Graduate Showcase on May 7, 2018. Proposed as an opportunity to give graduate students a platform on which to share current research, presenters and […]

Senior English Major Receives Fulbright Award

Senior English Major Receives Fulbright Award

The English Department is proud to announce Will Theodorou, Undergraduate Senior, is the recipient of a Fulbright Award overseen by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, […]