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Professor Carol Mackay edits new book, "Autobiographical Sketches" by Annie Besant


Oct 23, 2009

(Broadview Press, 2009)

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


Oct 23, 2009

(University of Texas Press, 2009)

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English Honors student Jimmy Hammond interviewed for Hunger and Homelessness Outreach


Oct 09, 2009



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"Envisioning Muslims: A Modern Day Perspective"


Oct 09, 2009

A documentary by undergraduate Murray Sanders

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Professor Douglas Bruster publishes ‘Everyman’ and ‘Mankind’

(London: Arden Shakespeare, 2009)
Oct 08, 2009

A scholarly edition of two influential morality plays, co-edited with Eric Rasmussen

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Four Michener Center students recognized with the 2009 Keene Prize for Literature

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

Winner Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; Finalists Malachi Black, Sarah Cornwell, and Sarah Smith
Oct 07, 2009



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“'By Order of Law': Shakespeare’s King Lear”

Shakespeare & the Law: Scenes and Panel on Legal Issues from 'King Lear,' September 23, 2009
Sep 21, 2009



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Actors from the London Stage and Spirit of Shakespeare 2009

Spirit of Shakespeare


Sep 10, 2009

AFTLS residency week, September 28 - October 3, 2009

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


Sep 03, 2009

Peter Caster

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Professor Emeritus Bernth Lindfors publishes "Early Achebe"

(Africa World Press, 2009)
Sep 02, 2009



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English Department students win Jane Austen Society of North America essay prizes

Joanna Thaler and Amanda Payne

Joanna Thaler and Amanda Payne take first and second place in the JASNA essay competition.
Sep 01, 2009



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Fiction Reading: Nam Le, "The Boat"


Sep 01, 2009



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Elizabeth Richmond-Garza awarded Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award


Aug 24, 2009



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Professor James D. Garrison publishes "A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray's Elegy"

(University of Delaware Press, 2009)
Aug 24, 2009



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James Cox named recipient of a University of Texas System Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award


Aug 24, 2009



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Professor Oscar Casares Publishes "Amigoland"

(Little, Brown & Co.: 2009)
Aug 07, 2009



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The English Department Welcomes New Faculty

Meet the new English Department faculty, including Michener Chair Elizabeth McCracken and new faculty in Modern Drama, Renaissance, and Digital Humanities.
Aug 06, 2009



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

Ed Madden
Jul 03, 2009



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Visiting Lecturer and UT English Alum Susan Somers-Willett Publishes Two Major Books


Jun 10, 2009



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The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2009)

Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Jun 02, 2009



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Quiver (University of Georgia Press, 2009)

Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Jun 02, 2009



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Graduate Student Katharine Beutner Wins Writers Colony Scholarship


May 19, 2009



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Undergraduates Win George Mitchell Student Awards

Jesse Cordes Selbin & Ari Schulman

Congratulations to English majors Ari Schulman and Jesse Cordes Selbin
May 14, 2009



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English Department Graduate Student Successes

TL Connie Steel; TR Kristine Kotecki; BL Jonathan Lamb; BL Katy Evans


May 06, 2009



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Graduate Student Connie Steel wins DPD Fellowship!


May 06, 2009



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


May 06, 2009



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Graduate Student Jonathan Lamb Wins ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship


May 05, 2009



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Graduate Student Kristine Kotecki Wins FLAS and ACLS Fellowships


May 01, 2009



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Professor James Loehlin selected for the Academy of Distinguished Teachers


Apr 30, 2009



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Graduate Student Katy Evans Awarded AAUW Fellowship


Apr 27, 2009



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Professor Daniel Birkholz Awarded a Solmsen Post-Doctoral Fellowship


Apr 22, 2009



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Bat City Review Issue Five Release Party


Apr 22, 2009



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Spring M.A. graduation reading


Apr 15, 2009



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Benjamin Markovits "Fictional Truths"

April 21, 2009
Apr 13, 2009



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Two English Department Seniors Named Dean's Distinguished Graduates

Daniel Dawer and Ari Schulman are honored by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Apr 02, 2009



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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, 2009



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Professor Matt Richardson awarded 2009 Career Enhancement Fellowship


Apr 01, 2009



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Poetry Reading with Ellen Watson


Apr 01, 2009



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Congratulations to Professor Michael Winship on being awarded an NEH fellowship!

Professor Winship wins an American Antiquarian Society-NEH fellowship.
Mar 25, 2009



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"Poetry, Voice, and Performance: A Symposium"

The Creative Writing Program kicks off April's National Poetry Month with a symposium considering the communities and mediums of live poetry.
Mar 24, 2009



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


Mar 18, 2009



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Texas Studies in Literature and Language presents Spring 2009 edition

Samuel Beckett; Credit: Jarry Bauer

Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond (51.1, March 2009)
Mar 12, 2009



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The English Department Participates in Explore UT

Profs. Heinzelman & Barchas; Student KC Hysmith

Shakespeare in the Parlin Courtyard, King Lear, Slam Poetry, Jane Austen, a Mad Hatter tea party, and more.
Mar 09, 2009



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Patricia Smith Reads from Her Latest Book

National Book Award finalist "Blood Dazzler"
Feb 25, 2009



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English Department Takes the Stage As Presidential Priority

Photographs by Marsha Miller & Christina Murrey

The English Department has been identified as a Presidential priority.
Feb 13, 2009



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UT Graduate Chris LeCluyse (Ph.D. 2002) Nominated for Two Grammys

"Threshold of Night"

The Austin-based Conspirare choir has been nominated for "Threshold of Night"
Feb 05, 2009



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"AWP Three on Thursday": Bat City Review Reading


Feb 03, 2009



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Visiting Writer in Fiction Ben Fountain

Photo by Liliana Castillo


Jan 12, 2009

The Creative Writing Program welcomes Ben Fountain as a visiting writer in fiction.

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"Our Books, Ourselves"

An anatomy of the book exhibit.
Dec 05, 2008



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A New Literary Journal for English Majors: Hot|House

Hot|House staff: Scott Brownlee, Paula Mendoza-Hanna, and Andres Martinez


Nov 21, 2008



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"Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, and Dorothy West" (Louisiana State University Press, 2008)


Nov 14, 2008

Jennifer Wilks

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Matthew Davies Receives the B. Iden Payne Award


Nov 13, 2008



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67 mogul miniatures (Autumn House Press, 2009)


Nov 10, 2008

Raza Ali Hasan

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Bat City Review Issue Four Release Party


Nov 05, 2008

This Friday November 7th is the official release party for Bat City Review issue four at Domy Books in east Austin.

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James Loehlin’s Book "Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard" Wins a 2008 Robert W. Hamilton Award


Nov 03, 2008

(Loehlin, Cambridge University Press, 2008)

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Professor Geraldine Heng's GMAP Shares A $250,000 NEH Grant

Professor Geraldine Heng

The Global Middle Ages Project, co-directed by Professor Geraldine Heng, shares a new National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Oct 28, 2008



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Two UT Poets Read from Their New Books

A. Van Jordan & Dean Young


Oct 22, 2008



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English Honors Undergraduates Win the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship

Amanda Payne, BobieJo Ferguson, and Aubrey Lee

Aubrey Lee, BobieJo Ferguson and Amanda Payne of the Honors English program won the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship
Oct 17, 2008



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November reading by Visiting Writer Elizabeth Crane


Oct 16, 2008



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Undergraduate Lindsey Carmichael Brings Home Bronze from Paralympics


Oct 13, 2008



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Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/o Literature (University of Texas Press, 2008)


Oct 08, 2008

Sheila Marie Contreras

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Creative Writing Program Welcomes Dean Young to the Permanent Faculty in Poetry and Fiction

Credit: Matt Valentine


Sep 19, 2008



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Bat City Review Issue Four


Sep 18, 2008



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Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best (Finishing Line Press, 2008)


Sep 11, 2008

Marcela Malek Sulak

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Early Soyinka (African World Press, 2008)


Sep 08, 2008

Bernth Lindfors

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Shakespeare and the Power of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2008)


Sep 02, 2008

Robert Weimann and Douglas Bruster

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Laura Maher wins Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Poetry


Aug 26, 2008



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Susan Penn wins Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Fiction


Aug 26, 2008



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New Creative Writing Prize to Honor Ellen Engler Burks

Ellen Engler Burks


Aug 25, 2008



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Douglas Bruster Gives Plenary Address at International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon

Douglas Bruster


Aug 18, 2008



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"There Was a Woman" (University of Texas Press, 2008)

La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture
Aug 18, 2008

Domino Perez

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Olga Herrera wins Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for 2008-09

Olga Herrera
Aug 16, 2008



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Jill Anderson wins PEO Scholar Award for 2008-09

Jill Anderson
Aug 16, 2008



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Meta DuEwa Jones Wins Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship


Jul 14, 2008



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Quests: Design, Theory and History in Games and Narratives (AK Peters Ltd, 2008)


Jul 08, 2008

Jeff Howard

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The Grateful Slave (Cambridge, 2008)

The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
Jul 08, 2008

George Boulukos

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Signals (South Carolina Press, 2008)


Jul 08, 2008

Ed Madden

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Forgery ( Grove Press, 2008 )


Jul 08, 2008

Sabina Murray

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Necropolis ( neoNuma Arts, 2008)


Jul 08, 2008

Jill Alexander Essbaum

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The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures)

(Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Jul 07, 2008

Ellen Crowell

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British Representations of Latin America (University Press of Florida, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Luz Elena Ramirez

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Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegni Tradition (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Hosam Aboul-Ela

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Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival (Syracuse University Press, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Karen Steele

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Excursions: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Princeton University Press, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Editor

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Bridge and Tunnel (Wordtech Communications, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

John Hennessy

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Harlot (No Tell Books, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Jill Alexander Essbaum

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The Caprices ( Grove Press, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Sabina Murray

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The Red Passport (Picador, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Katherine Shonk

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Pioneers In The Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)


Jul 07, 2008

Susan Briante

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Broken China ( Simon & Schuster, 2006)


Jul 06, 2008

Lori Aurelia Williams

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Roam ( Southern Illinois University Press, 2006)


Jul 06, 2008

Susan B.A. Somers-Willett

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Grieving Shias ( Sheep Meadow Press, 2006)


Jul 06, 2008

Raza Ali Hasan

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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

A Culture of Paper Credit
Jul 05, 2008

Catherine E. Ingrassia

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A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove Press, 2005)


Jul 05, 2008

Sabina Murray

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Jagged with Love ( University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)


Jul 05, 2008

Susanna Childress

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Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues ( Simon Pulse, 2003 )


Jul 03, 2008

Lori Aurelia Williams

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City in Love (HarperCollins, 2002)


Jul 02, 2008

Alex Shakar

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The Savage Girl (Harper Perennial, 2002)


Jul 02, 2008

Alex Shakar

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When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune (Simon & Schuster, 2001 )


Jul 01, 2008

Lori Aurelia Williams

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Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Earns Piper Award for Teaching Excellence


Jun 30, 2008



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Heaven (Middlebury, 2000)


Jun 30, 2008

Jill Alexander Essbaum

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Luck ( W.W. Norton & Company, 2000)


Jun 30, 2008

Eric Martin

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Layne Craig Receives Women's and Gender Studies Dissertation Fellowship


Jun 10, 2008



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2008 International Conference on Narrative


Jun 10, 2008



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Joseph Slaughter (PhD '98) Wins ACLA's René Wellek Prize


Jun 10, 2008



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Graduate Student Caroline Wigginton Wins Prestigious University Award


Jun 09, 2008



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The Department of English Congratulates Peter LaSalle

Recipient of Flannery O'Connor Award
Nov 08, 2007



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