News

April 23, 2015
A salute to Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence, on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Anne joins Larry Manley and Michael Warner among recent...
April 23, 2015
Professor Langdon Hammer, Chair of the Department of English, debuted his literary biography of the acclaimed poet, James Merrill, titled James Merrill: Life and Art to a...
April 20, 2015
Susan Stewart, Professor in the Humanities and English at Princeton University will be on campus Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. in LC 101 to give a talk titled “...
April 8, 2015
David Scott Kastan is being awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) this spring by Felician College, where he will also be the graduation speaker. The award is...
April 6, 2015
The Renaissance Society of America has awarded Lawrence Manley and his co-author Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto) the 2015 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize...
March 30, 2015
Professor R. John Williams was awarded the 2015 Harry Levin Prize for best first book by the American Comparative Literature Association on Tuesday, March 26 at the annual...
March 6, 2015
In a recent WEEKEND interview with Saatchi Kalsi of the Yale Daily News, Paul Fry talks about choosing to pursue literature, “skimming” and distant reading, reflects on his...