News

2009

November

Liberal Arts Honors Program Awards Four English Department Students with the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship (Nov 17)

Creative Writing Program welcomes visiting writer Joshua Furst (Nov 10)


October

Professor Carol Mackay edits new book, "Autobiographical Sketches" by Annie Besant (Oct 23)

Professor John Morán González publishes "Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature" (Oct 23)

English Honors student Jimmy Hammond interviewed for Hunger and Homelessness Outreach (Oct 09)

"Envisioning Muslims: A Modern Day Perspective" (Oct 09)

Professor Douglas Bruster publishes ‘Everyman’ and ‘Mankind’ (Oct 08)
(London: Arden Shakespeare, 2009)

Four Michener Center students recognized with the 2009 Keene Prize for Literature (Oct 07)
Winner Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; Finalists Malachi Black, Sarah Cornwell, and Sarah Smith


September

“'By Order of Law': Shakespeare’s King Lear” (Sep 21)
Shakespeare & the Law: Scenes and Panel on Legal Issues from 'King Lear,' September 23, 2009

Actors from the London Stage and Spirit of Shakespeare 2009 (Sep 10)

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film (Ohio State Press, 2008) (Sep 03)

Professor Emeritus Bernth Lindfors publishes "Early Achebe" (Sep 02)
(Africa World Press, 2009)

English Department students win Jane Austen Society of North America essay prizes (Sep 01)
Joanna Thaler and Amanda Payne take first and second place in the JASNA essay competition.

Fiction Reading: Nam Le, "The Boat" (Sep 01)


August

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza awarded Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award (Aug 24)

Professor James D. Garrison publishes "A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray's Elegy" (Aug 24)
(University of Delaware Press, 2009)

James Cox named recipient of a University of Texas System Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award (Aug 24)

Professor Oscar Casares Publishes "Amigoland" (Aug 07)
(Little, Brown & Co.: 2009)

The English Department Welcomes New Faculty (Aug 06)
Meet the new English Department faculty, including Michener Chair Elizabeth McCracken and new faculty in Modern Drama, Renaissance, and Digital Humanities.


July

Tiresian Poestics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1881-2001 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008) (Jul 03)
Ed Madden


June

Visiting Lecturer and UT English Alum Susan Somers-Willett Publishes Two Major Books (Jun 10)

The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2009) (Jun 02)
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett

Quiver (University of Georgia Press, 2009) (Jun 02)
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett


May

Graduate Student Katharine Beutner Wins Writers Colony Scholarship (May 19)

Undergraduates Win George Mitchell Student Awards (May 14)
Congratulations to English majors Ari Schulman and Jesse Cordes Selbin

English Department Graduate Student Successes (May 06)

Graduate Student Connie Steel wins DPD Fellowship! (May 06)

Elizabeth Scala edits "The Post-Historical Middle Ages" (Palgrave, 2009) (May 06)

Graduate Student Jonathan Lamb Wins ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (May 05)

Graduate Student Kristine Kotecki Wins FLAS and ACLS Fellowships (May 01)


April

Professor James Loehlin selected for the Academy of Distinguished Teachers (Apr 30)

Graduate Student Katy Evans Awarded AAUW Fellowship (Apr 27)

Professor Daniel Birkholz Awarded a Solmsen Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Apr 22)

Bat City Review Issue Five Release Party (Apr 22)

Spring M.A. graduation reading (Apr 15)

Benjamin Markovits "Fictional Truths" (Apr 13)
April 21, 2009

Two English Department Seniors Named Dean's Distinguished Graduates (Apr 02)
Daniel Dawer and Ari Schulman are honored by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

English Honors Program students present at the conference for "Human Rights at the University of Texas: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Academics and Advocacy" (Apr 02)

Professor Matt Richardson awarded 2009 Career Enhancement Fellowship (Apr 01)

Poetry Reading with Ellen Watson (Apr 01)


March

Congratulations to Professor Michael Winship on being awarded an NEH fellowship! (Mar 25)
Professor Winship wins an American Antiquarian Society-NEH fellowship.

"Poetry, Voice, and Performance: A Symposium" (Mar 24)
The Creative Writing Program kicks off April's National Poetry Month with a symposium considering the communities and mediums of live poetry.

Jeri Kroll from Flinders University, Australia, presents "Why Choose a Creative PhD: The doctoral experience in Australia and the UK" (Mar 18)

Texas Studies in Literature and Language presents Spring 2009 edition (Mar 12)
Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond (51.1, March 2009)

The English Department Participates in Explore UT (Mar 09)
Shakespeare in the Parlin Courtyard, King Lear, Slam Poetry, Jane Austen, a Mad Hatter tea party, and more.


February

Patricia Smith Reads from Her Latest Book (Feb 25)
National Book Award finalist "Blood Dazzler"

English Department Takes the Stage As Presidential Priority (Feb 13)
The English Department has been identified as a Presidential priority.

UT Graduate Chris LeCluyse (Ph.D. 2002) Nominated for Two Grammys (Feb 05)
The Austin-based Conspirare choir has been nominated for "Threshold of Night"

"AWP Three on Thursday": Bat City Review Reading (Feb 03)


January

Visiting Writer in Fiction Ben Fountain (Jan 12)