Henry Awarded
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, received the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
View BioDepartment News
Brooke Jarvis ’07 was featured in the New York Times.
Matt Mattox ’02 was featured in Richmond Times Dispatch for Martin Agency.
Lucy Nalen, ’19, had her literary magazine "And So Yeah" profiled in The Collegian.
Upcoming Courses
Writers Series Events
The University of Richmond’s Writers Series exposes Richmond students, the greater university community, and city residents to some of today’s most celebrated writers. Readings are free and open to the public, though seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Each reading will be followed by a Q&A session and book signing.
The Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Arts & Sciences.
2024-2025 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & the Arts
The Nature of Representation
The Nature of Representation asks how our understandings of “nature” have been shaped by representational practices in both the aesthetic and political senses, exploring how the current climate catastrophe is inextricable from colonialism and anthropocentric worldviews. The festival features contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers who don’t take for granted that language is merely human, that there are other “natural” languages, and that attuning to those other languages allows us to tell stories that disrupt the violence of Man.
Upcoming Event:
Timothy Morton, "The War Against the Holy Spirit of Life: Some Countermeasures."
September 12, 4:30 p.m. | Humanities Commons
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Professor of English at Rice University. Both an acclaimed specialist in British Romantic poetics and a leading figure in the philosophical movement called speculative realism or object-oriented ontology, Morton’s many books include The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, Realist Magic, and Becoming Ecological, and their work has involved collaboration with figures far outside of academia, including Björk. Their most recent book is Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology.
Upcoming Events
Faculty Highlights
Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published Kiss of the Eyes of Peace, Selected Poems 1964-2014, a comprehensive English-language retrospective of Tomaž Šalamun’s storied career, including poems from all 52 of Šalamun’s books.
View Bio
Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published translations of poems by Tomaž Šalamun in The Nation, A Public Space, and Bennington Review, among other journals.
View Bio
Snaza Published
Nathan Snaza, assistant professor of English, published Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man by Duke University Press.
View BioFeature Stories
October 14, 2024
University News
Idea Exchange
Speakers at the Faculty & Staff Research Symposium discussed topics ranging from global health and conspiracy theories to Cuban music and Jack the Ripper.
October 2, 2024
University of Richmond Launches New Humanities Center
The University of Richmond recently launched the Humanities Center, a campus-wide initiative that will foster student and faculty research in the many areas of scholarship that make up the humanities.
September 9, 2024
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Faithful work
As a chaplaincy intern this summer at UVA Health Children’s Hospital, senior Susannah Carter tended to the spiritual needs of little ones and their families.
June 24, 2024
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Book smart: Faculty recognized for writing achievements
UR professors received awards for works ranging from a historical fictional account of Richmond’s tragic theater fire to a new translation of Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf.
English Faculty in the News
March 15, 2024
The Folder
English professor Libby Gruner, who is writing a book about her grandmother’s legacy, authored this piece dedicated to mementos from lost loved ones.
January 8, 2024
Rachel Beanland book selected for Same Page Community Read ahead of Festival of the Book
2023-2024 Writer in Residence Rachel Beanland is featured.
January 7, 2024
Grading: The good, the bad and the unhelpful
English professor Libby Gruner is quoted.
December 28, 2023
SCHEV announces Outstanding Faculty honorees; more …
English professor Elizabeth Outka was named a SCHEV Outstanding Faculty award winner.
UR Summer Fellowships: Masnoon Majeed and Dr. David Stevens
University of Richmond students discuss summer research opportunities that give them a chance to explore their passions through hands-on projects, all while making a difference in the wider world
UR Summer Fellowships: Katie Skipper and Libby Gruner
University of Richmond students discuss summer research opportunities that give them a chance to explore their passions through hands-on projects, all while making a difference in the wider world.
Writers Series: Robert Olen Butler
2014
Resources
Contact Us
Mailing address:
English Department, Humanities Building 318
106 UR Drive
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8287
Fax: (804) 289-8313
Department Chair: Dr. David Stevens
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Emily Tarchokov