Current News
'Exemplaria' receives Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement
Posted: May 22, 2012
The academic journal, dedicated to medieval and Renaissance studies and co-edited by Department of English Associate Professor Elizabeth Scala, has won the 2011 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement.
Keene Prize for Literature winner and finalists
Posted: May 11, 2012
The Department of English congratulates Michener Center for Writers graduate student Fiona McFarlane (far left), winner of the 2012 Keene Prize for Literature. Finalists in order of appearance: Carolina Ebeid, Corey Miller, and Corinne Greiner.
Associate Professor Deborah Paredez wins the John L. Warfield Outstanding Teaching Award
Posted: May 10, 2012
The Department of English congratulates Associate Professor Deborah Paredez, recipient of the 2011-2012 John L. Warfield Outstanding Teaching Award.
Assistant Professor Lars Hinrichs featured in UT's 'Know'
Posted: May 9, 2012
Assistant Professor Lars Hinrichs was featured in UT's 'Know' article, "Do you speak Texan?" as he explained the prevalence and various uses of Texan dialects, as well as the Texas English Project.
Associate Professor Phillip Barrish publishes 'The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism'
Posted: May 9, 2012
English Honors student Katherine Noble wins 2012 Roy Crane Award
Posted: Apr 26, 2012
The Department of English congratulates English Honors student Katherine Noble, recipient of the 2012 Roy Crane Award in Literary Arts.
Associate Professor Oscar Casares participates in H-E-B Read 3 Literacy Campaign
Posted: Apr 16, 2012
Department of English Associate Professor Oscar Casares participated in H-E-B Grocery Company’s Read 3 program in early March with a special in-store reading of Dr. Seuss books to thirty first graders.
Assistant Professor Julia H. Lee and Associate Professor Martin Kevorkian win College of Liberal Arts Teaching Awards
Posted: Apr 5, 2012
The Department of English congratulates Assistant Professor Julia H. Lee, recipient of the Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship and Associate Professor Martin Kevorkian, recipient of the Harry Ransom Teaching Award for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Four Creative Writing Alumni Render Notable Publications
Posted: Mar 8, 2012
The Department of English congratulates creative writing graduate alumni Dana De Greff, Spencer Wise, Nicky Arscott, and Martha Stallman on their recent notable publications, awards, and continued pursuit of the craft and scholarship of creative writing.
Professor John Slatin Influential in Google Engineer's Career
Posted: Mar 7, 2012
Professor John Slatin, who passed away in 2008, was featured in a College of Liberal Arts Public Affairs article for his direct influence and motivation in Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus Charles Chen’s work in creating software for the visually impaired that led to a prestigious career with Google.
ACLS New Faculty Fellow Susannah Hollister publishes 'Stanzas in Meditation: The Corrected Edition,' and receives New York Times review
Posted: Jan 31, 2012
The Department of English congratulates American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow Susannah Hollister on the publication of Gertrude Stein's 'Stanzas in Meditation: The Corrected Edition.'
Department of English wins three-year Course Transformation Grant
Posted: Dec 20, 2011
Every year English 316K Masterworks of Literature introduces four to five thousand UT undergraduates to the joys of studying literature at a college level.
Professor Alan Friedman and Associate Professor Hannah Wojciehowski win President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award
Posted: Dec 8, 2011
The Department of English congratulates Professor Alan Friedman and Associate Professor Hannah Wojciehowski, two of the seven University faculty recipients of the 2011-2012 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award.
Associate Professor Lisa Moore wins College of Liberal Arts Humanities Research Award
Posted: Dec 5, 2011
The Department of English congratulates Associate Professor Lisa Moore, recipient of the 2011 College of Liberal Arts Humanities Research Award.
Professor Emeritus Bernth Lindfors publishes 'Ira Aldridge: The Early Years (1807-1833)' and 'Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years (1833-1852)'
Posted: Nov 16, 2011
Four Department of English students win Rapoport-Kings Thesis Scholarship
Posted: Nov 4, 2011
The Department of English congratulates Jake Malone, Kathleen Burns, Raaan Robertson, and Emma Panico, English major seniors who have been awarded the College of Liberal Arts Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarships.
'CantoMundo' Fellow wins Whiting Award and 'CantoMundo' featured in 'Poets & Writers' Magazine
Posted: Oct 31, 2011
Assistant Professor Julia H. Lee publishes 'Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937'
Posted: Oct 30, 2011
Professor Kurt Heinzelman publishes 'Demarcations'
Posted: Oct 29, 2011
A bilingual version of the French poet Jean Follain's book of poetry
Associate Professor Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski publishes 'Group Identity in the Renaissance World'
Posted: Oct 11, 2011
Associate Professor Meta DuEwa Jones publishes 'The Muse is Music: Jazz Poetry From the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word'
Posted: Sep 29, 2011
Senior Lecturer Betsy Berry and Professors James Loehlin and Carol MacKay win Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards
Posted: Aug 31, 2011
The Department of English congratulates Senior Lecturer Betsy Berry, Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor James Loehlin, and Distinguished Teaching Professor Carol MacKay, recipients of the 2011 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.
Award-Winning English Teacher Models Dynamic Use of Technology
Posted: Aug 24, 2011
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza’s teaching style garnered even more praise and distinction this year, when she received the student-selected 2010 Texas Exes Teaching Award.
On the road with Ann Cvetkovich during 2010-2011 College Research Fellowship
Posted: Aug 5, 2011
While on leave over the past academic year with a one-semester College Research Fellowship combined with leave without pay, Professor Ann Cvetkovich has completed a new book, Depression: A Public Feelings Project (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2012), and participated in a range of public events that emerge from her ongoing collaborative work with the Public Feelings research seminar at the University of Texas and her new research on the institutionalization of LGBTQ archives.
Department of English Outstanding TA and AI Award Winners
Posted: Jul 25, 2011
S. Pearl Brilmyer, Bradley Irish, Corinne Lee Greiner, Dusty Hixenbaugh
The Department of English congratulates the 2010-2011 Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Assistant Instructor Award winners.
Professor Lisa Moore publishes 'Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes'
Posted: Jun 3, 2011
Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes (Moore, University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Charlotte Mark and Alisa Holahan win Undergraduate Research Journal Awards
Posted: May 25, 2011
Recent graduates were awarded first and second place prizes for the 2010 - 2011 Undergraduate Research Journal Award.
Professor Dean Young featured on NPR's Morning Edition
Posted: May 23, 2011
Young discusses his latest collection published days after his life-saving surgery.
Graduate Student Ashley Squires wins Mary Baker Eddy fellowship
Posted: May 22, 2011
Squires will use the award to complete her dissertation on literary responses to the Christian Science movement.
Graduating senior Lindsey Carmichael featured in 'Class of 2011' article
Posted: May 17, 2011
Carmichael, a Dean's Distinguished Graduate and recipient of multiple departmental writing awards, was profiled in part for her achievements as a Paralympic archer.
Assistant Professor Matt Richardson wins 2011 John L. Warfield Teaching Award
Posted: May 17, 2011
The award recognizes innovative instructors who have a long-term impact on students and demonstrate the principles and mission of the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.
Professor Ann Cvetkovich co-edits 'Political Emotions: New Agendas in Communication'
Posted: May 16, 2011
The book, which features Department of English faculty members Sam Baker and Neville Hoad, involves the ongoing work of the interdisciplinary Public Feelings research group based at UT.
Three Department of English students named Dean's Distinguished Graduates
Posted: May 12, 2011
Lindsey Carmichael, Monica Gully, and Matthew Ramirez earned the prestigious undergraduate honor.
Undergraduate student Matthew Ramirez wins Mitchell Award
Posted: May 10, 2011
Ramirez won the $2000 prize for his English Honors thesis.
Professor Allen MacDuffie wins Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship
Posted: May 10, 2011
The $3000 honorarium recognizes outstanding teaching in the College of Liberal Arts.
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolution
Posted: May 9, 2011
A conference on Feminist writing in the era of the American, French, and Haitian revolutions.
Graduate student Katharine Beutner wins Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
Posted: May 5, 2011
The Publishing Triangle honored Beutner's novel 'Alcestis.'
Assistant Professor J.K. Barret wins Solmsen Fellowship and Clark Short-Term Fellowship
Posted: May 4, 2011
Professor Barret will use the fellowships to complete her current book project, 'The Poetics of Futurity in Renaissance England.'
Associate Professor Matt Cohen wins National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Posted: May 2, 2011
Cohen will use the funds to work on a project that will digitally preserve poet Walt Whitman's annotations.
Professor Marjorie Curry Woods receives 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award
Posted: Apr 27, 2011
This annual award is selected by undergraduate students of the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Texas chapter.
Professor Emeritus Bernth Lindfors publishes 'Early East African Writers and Publishers'
Posted: Apr 26, 2011
Early East African Writers and Publishers: Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Okot P'Bitek, David Maillu (Lindfors, Africa World Press, 2011)
Assistant Professor Coleman Hutchison interviewed on 'American Icons'
Posted: Apr 26, 2011
Hutchison spoke about the cultural impact and evolution of the song 'Dixie.'
Professor Marjorie Curry Woods wins Rhetoric Society of America Book Award
Posted: Apr 25, 2011
The annual award recognizes the year's most outstanding rhetorical work.
Department of English makes the list of Top 25 Underrated MFA Programs
Posted: Apr 19, 2011
The Huffington Post recognized UT's new MFA program in its annual list.
Professor Marjorie Curry Woods joins the Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Posted: Apr 15, 2011
Woods was selected to join the elite Academy, which comprises just 5 percent of UT's tenured faculty.
Jim Garrison wins Plan II Chad Oliver Teaching Award
Posted: Apr 11, 2011
The annual award recognizes one outstanding teacher a year.
Dean Young to publish poetry collection 'Fall Higher'
Posted: Apr 8, 2011
Young's latest hits bookshelves this month.
Graduate Student Charlotte Nunes wins AAUW fellowship
Posted: Apr 8, 2011
Nunes will use the award to complete her dissertation on anti-imperialism in British modernist literature.
Professor George Christian wins Harry H. Ransom Teaching Award
Posted: Apr 8, 2011
The College of Liberal Arts honors one teacher with the award each year.
Kurt Heinzelman publishes poetry collection 'The Names They Found There'
Posted: Apr 7, 2011
The Names They Found There (Heinzelman, Pecan Grove Press, 2011)
Graduate student Kirby Brown wins Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Posted: Apr 6, 2011
The $25,000 stipend assists humanities graduate students in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing.
Associate Professor Lisa Moore wins Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
Posted: Apr 6, 2011
One faculty member receives this honor and its accompanying $3000 prize each year.
Graduate student Anna Stewart wins Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Posted: Mar 29, 2011
The $25,000 stipend assists humanities graduate students in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing.
Professor Douglas Bruster publishes Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Posted: Mar 24, 2011
Shakespeare's popular comedy of desire edited with critical essays.
Associate Professor Deborah Paredez's 'Selenidad' wins honor
Posted: Mar 9, 2011
'Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory' was awarded the 2011 National Association of Chicana/o Studies Book Award Honorable Mention.
Professor Marjorie Curry Woods wins 2011-2012 Institute for Advanced Study fellowship
Posted: Mar 7, 2011
Woods will study the Western European pedagogical tradition of teaching schoolboys to identify with the emotions of literary women.
The Department of English remembers Elizabeth "Lizz" Ketterer
Posted: Mar 2, 2011
An alumna of UT's Department of English and Shakespeare at Winedale program, Ketterer died recently from complications due to diabetes.
Dean Young publishes new poem in The New Yorker
Posted: Feb 16, 2011
"The Rhythms Pronounce Themselves Then Vanish" appears in the Feb. 14 & 21, 2011 issue.
Postdoctoral Fellow Caroline Wigginton selected for ACLS New Faculty Fellowship
Posted: Feb 7, 2011
Wigginton is one of sixty-five recipients selected for the prestigious award.
Ph.D. Graduate Michael Chorost publishes "World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet"
Posted: Feb 1, 2011
(Free Press, 2011)
Professor Don Graham publishes essay collection 'State of Minds'
Posted: Jan 31, 2011
State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents (Graham, UT Press, 2011)
Laura Furman publishes short story collection 'The Mother Who Stayed'
Posted: Jan 31, 2011
The Mother Who Stayed (Furman, Simon & Schuster, 2011)
'GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies' wins prize from Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Posted: Jan 26, 2011
The journal, co-edited by English Professor Ann Cvetkovich, took home the 2010 Special Issue Prize for its 'Sexuality, Indigeneity, Nationality' issue.
Professor Douglas Bruster to give inaugural lecture at Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna
Posted: Jan 25, 2011
UT Shakespearean one of six experts from around the world to address 'The Human Mind'
Associate Professor Domino Perez wins President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
Posted: Jan 24, 2011
Professor Perez was one of seven University faculty members recognized for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
Texas State to host symposium on Professor Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Posted: Jan 24, 2011
The February 4th event will honor Professor Hinojosa-Smith and fellow author Miguel Méndez.
Renowned neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese to speak at UT on art, empathy, and the body
Posted: Jan 23, 2011
The February 16 lecture, sponsored by The Department of English and the Department of Psychology, and co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Department of French & Italian, is free and open to the public.
UPDATED: Graduate students curate HRC exhibit featuring ‘glamorized’ books
Posted: Dec 31, 2010
‘Pimp My Book: a brief history of the customized reading experience’ includes examples of peacocked, bejeweled, and otherwise glamorized books, from medieval manuscript to modern novel.
Keene Prize play goes on to U.S. and U.K. premieres
Posted: Dec 21, 2010
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's prize-winning play "Lidless" will open in Philadelphia and London in 2011.
Associate Professor Janine Barchas wins Humanities Research Award
Posted: Dec 15, 2010
Professor Barchas is one of ten College of Liberal Arts faculty members to receive the $15,000 grant.
Associate Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza wins Texas Exes Teaching Award
Posted: Dec 14, 2010
A student committee selected Professor Richmond-Garza as the College's recipient of the Texas Exes-sponsored award.
Professor Marjorie Woods wins Humanities Research Award to study how Europeans taught and learned writing
Posted: Dec 10, 2010
Woods is one of 10 College of Liberal Arts faculty members to receive the newly established $15,000 award.
Ph.D. Student Matthew Reilly publishes ""No eye has seen, or ear heard": Arabic Sources for Quaker Subjectivity in Unca Eliza Winkfield's The Female American"
Posted: Dec 9, 2010
Eighteenth-Century Studies (Volume 44, Number 2, Winter 2011)
Gulf Coast journal awards annual nonfiction prize to Associate Professor Judith Kroll
Posted: Nov 5, 2010
Kroll's essay "Happy Families" chosen for publication and $1000 prize.
Glasscock Center Awards Twelfth Book Prize to Associate Professor Matt Cohen
Posted: Nov 4, 2010
Professor Cohen will receive the award and present a lecture on 9 February 2011.
Professor John Morán González publishes 'The Troubled Union'
Posted: Sep 17, 2010
The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (González, Ohio State University Press, 2010),
English Department grad student Joanna Thaler wins Jane Austen Society of North America essay contest
Posted: Sep 7, 2010
Joanna's essay on Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' took first place in the contest's graduate division.
Assistant Professor Matt Richardson collaborates on new UT Libraries tool: The Black Queer Studies Collection
Posted: Sep 2, 2010
This virtual gathering of works, the first of its kind, indicates the importance of critical library interventions as scholarly tools.
Associate Professor Mia Carter and Assistant Professor Coleman Hutchison win Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards
Posted: Sep 1, 2010
The awards, believed to be the highest in the nation for undergraduate faculty, recognize extraordinary classroom performance, innovation, and dedication.
Acclaimed poets David Wevill and Michael McGriff will give November 10 Ransom Center reading
Posted: Sep 1, 2010
Wevill, a professor emeritus, and McGriff, a Michener Center alumnus, will present their work to celebrate a new edition of Wevill's collected works.
Poets Evie Shockley, Ange Mlinko, and Kevin Prufer give reading in conjunction with Poetry Society of America Spotlight Series
Posted: Sep 1, 2010
The Creative Writing Program & the Michener Center for Writers invite you to a panel discussion and reading by poets and critics.
Summer's Lease: Study Shakespeare, Austen, and the Gothic Novel at Oxford's Wadham College
Posted: Sep 1, 2010
The English Department's Oxford Summer Program offers undergraduates a chance to study abroad in Oxford.
Professor Barbara Harlow to present 2010 Africa Distinguished Lecture
Posted: Aug 26, 2010
Dr. Harlow will discuss Ruth First's activism in the anti-apartheid struggle and her pedagogy in post-independence Africa.
Assistant Professor Coleman Hutchison to participate in 2010-2011 Visiting Scholars Program
Posted: Aug 24, 2010
Professor Hutchison will begin his year-long appointment in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program this fall.
Professor Geraldine Heng awarded residential research fellowship
Posted: Aug 17, 2010
Professor Heng will participate in a spring 2011 research seminar at the University of California.
Tickets now on sale for AFTLS production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Posted: Aug 16, 2010
Actors from the London Stage returns to UT to perform Shakespeare's popular early comedy.
Professor James Magnuson's play kicks off annual New York theater festival
Posted: Aug 5, 2010
The Lincoln Center Out of Doors featured 'No Snakes in This Grass' as 2010's inaugural performance.
Professor Emerita Kate Frost dies at 71
Posted: Aug 3, 2010
Professor Frost, a Renaissance scholar, was known for her intellect, wit, and generosity of spirit.
Alumnus John Meyer's 'American Volunteers' makes the longlist for 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize
Posted: Jul 22, 2010
Meyer is the first playwright ever considered for the prestigious award.
Forthcoming publication: Professor Dean Young's first book of prose on poetry
Posted: Jun 28, 2010
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Young, Graywolf Press, 2010)
Professor Lisa Moore publishes "Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic"
Posted: Jun 24, 2010
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (Jones, Moore, and Bridgeforth, UT Press, 2010)
Professor Lisa Moore will give gallery talk about history of lesbian landscape art
Posted: Jun 23, 2010
"A Brief History of Queer Space," June 30, 7 p.m., at the Women and Their Work gallery
Professor Samuel Baker publishes "Written on the Water"
Posted: Jun 22, 2010
Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture (Baker, University of Virginia Press, 2010)
Graduate Student Katharine Beutner Wins 2010-2011 AAUW American Fellowship
Posted: Jun 22, 2010
The AAUW honors Katharine Beutner with a prestigious American Dissertation Fellowship.
Graduate student Kevin Bourque wins William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award
Posted: Jun 1, 2010
Congratulations to Kevin Bourque for winning the Outstanding Assistant Instructor award, nominated by English Professor Lisa Moore.
Graduate student Kirby Brown wins George H. Mitchell Excellence in Graduate Research Award
Posted: May 26, 2010
Congratulations to Kirby Brown, who won for his ongoing thesis on Cherokee writers, directed by Professor James Cox.
Ph.D. Graduate Marcela Sulak publishes "Immigrant"
Posted: Mar 19, 2010
(Black Lawrence Press, 2010)
Ph.D. Student Charlotte Nunes publishes article "“In the Name of National Security: Torture and Imperialist Ideology in Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father and Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto"
Posted: Jan 1, 2010
(Human Rights Quarterly, Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2009)
Ph.D. Graduate Stephen Dobranski publishes "Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England"
Posted: Dec 31, 2009
(Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reprinted in a paperback edition, 2009)
Ph.D Graduate Michael Erard Publishes "Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean."
Posted: Mar 27, 2008
(Pantheon, 2007)
