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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...