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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
"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
Winner Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; Finalists Malachi Black, Sarah Cornwell, and Sarah Smith
Oct 07, 2009
“'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
Actors from the London Stage and Spirit of Shakespeare 2009
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
English Department students win Jane Austen Society of North America essay prizes
Joanna Thaler and Amanda Payne take first and second place in the JASNA essay competition.
Sep 01, 2009
Professor James D. Garrison publishes "A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray's Elegy"
(University of Delaware Press, 2009)
Aug 24, 2009
James Cox named recipient of a University of Texas System Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award
Aug 24, 2009
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
Tiresian Poestics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1881-2001 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008)
Ed Madden
Jul 03, 2009
Visiting Lecturer and UT English Alum Susan Somers-Willett Publishes Two Major Books
Jun 10, 2009
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2009)
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Jun 02, 2009
Undergraduates Win George Mitchell Student Awards
Congratulations to English majors Ari Schulman and Jesse Cordes Selbin
May 14, 2009
English Department Graduate Student Successes
May 06, 2009
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
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
Congratulations to Professor Michael Winship on being awarded an NEH fellowship!
Professor Winship wins an American Antiquarian Society-NEH fellowship.
Mar 25, 2009
"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
Jeri Kroll from Flinders University, Australia, presents "Why Choose a Creative PhD: The doctoral experience in Australia and the UK"
Mar 18, 2009
Texas Studies in Literature and Language presents Spring 2009 edition
Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond (51.1, March 2009)
Mar 12, 2009
The English Department Participates in Explore UT
Shakespeare in the Parlin Courtyard, King Lear, Slam Poetry, Jane Austen, a Mad Hatter tea party, and more.
Mar 09, 2009
Patricia Smith Reads from Her Latest Book
National Book Award finalist "Blood Dazzler"
Feb 25, 2009
English Department Takes the Stage As Presidential Priority
The English Department has been identified as a Presidential priority.
Feb 13, 2009
UT Graduate Chris LeCluyse (Ph.D. 2002) Nominated for Two Grammys
The Austin-based Conspirare choir has been nominated for "Threshold of Night"
Feb 05, 2009
Visiting Writer in Fiction Ben Fountain
Jan 12, 2009
The Creative Writing Program welcomes Ben Fountain as a visiting writer in fiction.
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A New Literary Journal for English Majors: Hot|House
Nov 21, 2008
"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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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
The Global Middle Ages Project, co-directed by Professor Geraldine Heng, shares a new National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Oct 28, 2008
English Honors Undergraduates Win the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship
Aubrey Lee, BobieJo Ferguson and Amanda Payne of the Honors English program won the Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship
Oct 17, 2008
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
Sep 19, 2008
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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Shakespeare and the Power of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Sep 02, 2008
Robert Weimann and Douglas Bruster
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Douglas Bruster Gives Plenary Address at International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon
Aug 18, 2008
"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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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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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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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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When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune (Simon & Schuster, 2001 )
Jul 01, 2008
Lori Aurelia Williams
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The Department of English Congratulates Peter LaSalle
Recipient of Flannery O'Connor Award
Nov 08, 2007