Faculty News

April 20, 2017
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Amy Hungerford has been named the Bird White Housum Professor of English. As reported by Yale News, Hungerford ”teaches...
April 20, 2017
As reported by The Council on Library and Information Resources on March 28, 2017: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has appointed Jacqueline Goldsby ...
April 20, 2017
The American Council of Learned Societies has named Karin Roffman among the 2017 ACLS Fellows. As reported by the ACLS: This competition saw the program grow to support more...
January 25, 2017
In Spring 2016, members of the New Chaucer Society elected as their new President, long-time Trustee, Ardis Butterfield (John M. Schiff Professor of English, Professor of...
December 19, 2016
A recent review by Seamus Perry in the Times Literary Supplement of the late John Hollander’s The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History (edited by...
December 16, 2016
Alastair Minnis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, has been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Membership of this body is the highest academic...
September 22, 2016
The 2016 MacArthur Fellows have been announced, with our very own Claudia Rankine and Sarah Stillman among this distinguished list.  Claudia and Sarah both joined our faculty...