Department News

Alastair Minnis awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship at the Liguria Study Center

Congratulations to Alastair Minnis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, who has recently been awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship at the Liguria Study Center, located on the Italian Riviera in the village of Bogliasco, near Genoa, which he will take up in the Fall semester. “One of the few residential institutions in the world dedicated...

Michael Warner newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Michael Warner, Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and the current chair of the department, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  The American Academy was founded in 1780.  In the words of its charter, the "end and design of the institution is... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the...

Jessica Brantley awarded Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship

Congratulations to Jessica Brantley, who has recently been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences, and are meant "to encourage...

Joseph Roach - 2013 ATHE Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher

Congratulations to Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English, who was recently named a recipient of the 2013 Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). This award “honors a college-level faculty member whose superiority as a teacher of theatre is recognized by students and...

Writing Concentrators Ball: A reading by this year’s Writing Concentrators

Wednesday, April 24 at 7:00, St. Anthony Hall. The English Department presents: The Concentrator’s Ball, in which seniors in the Concentration in Creative Writing read from their senior projects. Refreshments will be served-all are welcome.

Nicole Davis awarded the Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting

The inaugural Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting will be awarded to Nicole Davis '13. The award, given to the graduating senior with the most distinguished portfolio of plays, is named after Marina Keegan '12, a gifted playwright and English major who was killed in a car accident five days after graduating magna cum laude from Yale...