News
2008
December
"Our Books, Ourselves" (Dec 05)
An anatomy of the book exhibit.
November
A New Literary Journal for English Majors: Hot|House (Nov 21)
Matthew Davies Receives the B. Iden Payne Award (Nov 13)
67 mogul miniatures (Autumn House Press, 2009) (Nov 10)
Bat City Review Issue Four Release Party (Nov 05)
James Loehlin’s Book "Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard" Wins a 2008 Robert W. Hamilton Award (Nov 03)
October
Professor Geraldine Heng's GMAP Shares A $250,000 NEH Grant (Oct 28)
The Global Middle Ages Project, co-directed by Professor Geraldine Heng, shares a new National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Two UT Poets Read from Their New Books (Oct 22)
English Honors Undergraduates Win the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship (Oct 17)
Aubrey Lee, BobieJo Ferguson and Amanda Payne of the Honors English program won the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship
November reading by Visiting Writer Elizabeth Crane (Oct 16)
Undergraduate Lindsey Carmichael Brings Home Bronze from Paralympics (Oct 13)
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/o Literature (University of Texas Press, 2008) (Oct 08)
September
Creative Writing Program Welcomes Dean Young to the Permanent Faculty in Poetry and Fiction (Sep 19)
Bat City Review Issue Four (Sep 18)
Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best (Finishing Line Press, 2008) (Sep 11)
Early Soyinka (African World Press, 2008) (Sep 08)
Shakespeare and the Power of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Sep 02)
August
Laura Maher wins Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Poetry (Aug 26)
Susan Penn wins Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Fiction (Aug 26)
New Creative Writing Prize to Honor Ellen Engler Burks (Aug 25)
Douglas Bruster Gives Plenary Address at International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon (Aug 18)
"There Was a Woman" (University of Texas Press, 2008) (Aug 18)
La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture
Olga Herrera wins Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for 2008-09 (Aug 16)
Olga Herrera
Jill Anderson wins PEO Scholar Award for 2008-09 (Aug 16)
Jill Anderson
July
Meta DuEwa Jones Wins Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship (Jul 14)
Quests: Design, Theory and History in Games and Narratives (AK Peters Ltd, 2008) (Jul 08)
The Grateful Slave (Cambridge, 2008) (Jul 08)
The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
Signals (South Carolina Press, 2008) (Jul 08)
Forgery ( Grove Press, 2008 ) (Jul 08)
Necropolis ( neoNuma Arts, 2008) (Jul 08)
The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures) (Jul 07)
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British Representations of Latin America (University Press of Florida, 2007) (Jul 07)
Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) (Jul 07)
Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival (Syracuse University Press, 2007) (Jul 07)
Excursions: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Princeton University Press, 2007) (Jul 07)
Bridge and Tunnel (Wordtech Communications, 2007) (Jul 07)
Harlot (No Tell Books, 2007) (Jul 07)
The Caprices ( Grove Press, 2007) (Jul 07)
The Red Passport (Picador, 2007) (Jul 07)
Pioneers In The Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007) (Jul 07)
Broken China ( Simon & Schuster, 2006) (Jul 06)
Roam ( Southern Illinois University Press, 2006) (Jul 06)
Grieving Shias ( Sheep Meadow Press, 2006) (Jul 06)
Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2005) (Jul 05)
A Culture of Paper Credit
A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove Press, 2005) (Jul 05)
Jagged with Love ( University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) (Jul 05)
Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues ( Simon Pulse, 2003 ) (Jul 03)
City in Love (HarperCollins, 2002) (Jul 02)
The Savage Girl (Harper Perennial, 2002) (Jul 02)
When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune (Simon & Schuster, 2001 ) (Jul 01)
June
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Earns Piper Award for Teaching Excellence (Jun 30)
Heaven (Middlebury, 2000) (Jun 30)
Luck ( W.W. Norton & Company, 2000) (Jun 30)
Layne Craig Receives Women's and Gender Studies Dissertation Fellowship (Jun 10)
2008 International Conference on Narrative (Jun 10)
Joseph Slaughter (PhD '98) Wins ACLA's René Wellek Prize (Jun 10)
Graduate Student Caroline Wigginton Wins Prestigious University Award (Jun 09)
April
Anthony Hilfer (1936--2008) (Apr 17)