OLD STORY: OCTOBER
A mortal circle of leaves,
crimson, the maple tree
bent down, a diviner,
knee-deep in its own
dry rattle. A massacre.
How could we have
missed it, even...
Stephanie Newell, George M. Bodman Professor of English, has received the IILA Distinguished Humanities Scholar Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to West...
Ardis Butterfield has been appointed International Consultant at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. This arose from her visit...
Marcel Elias was awarded the New Chaucer Society’s Prize for the Best Special Issue dealing with Late-Medieval Literature for New Directions in Medieval Postcolonialism. ...
“What J.M. Coetzee Can Teach Us About ICE” - The Nation
The world inside the South African novelist’s Waiting for the Barbarians bears striking resemblance to Trump’s racist...
In September, the month I found the doll among my papers, I began rereading Doris Lessing’s 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, which had been important to me years ago and had...
The English Department mourns the passing of John Crowley, a brilliant, profoundly original writer who was dedicated member of Creative Writing faculty in an important phase...
