Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, received the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
View BioBrooke 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.
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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.
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Faculty Highlights
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 BioBrian 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 BioNathan Snaza, assistant professor of English, published Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man by Duke University Press.
View BioUR 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
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Mailing address:
English Department, Humanities Building 318
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University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8287
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Department Chair: Dr. David Stevens
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Emily Tarchokov