The Department of English offers students deep engagement with literary study, a pursuit that develops writing and critical reading abilities along with strengthening communications skills and critical thinking.
Brooke Jarvis '07 featured in the New York Times.
Matt Mattox '02 featured in Richmond Times Dispatch for Martin Agency.
Lucy Nalen, '19, had her literary magazine "And So Yeah" profiled in The Collegian.
Faculty Highlights
- Singh Awarded
Julietta Singh, professor of English and Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, received an honorable mention for the book The Breaks from the Association for Asian American Studies in the Creative Writing: Prose category, awarded at their 2023 convention.
- Singh's Book Translated
The book No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh, associate professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies, has been translated into German as Kein Archiv wird Dich wiederherstellen.
- Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, edited and translated Aleš Šteger's Burning Tongues: New & Selected Poems, which was published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK.
- Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, has recently published over 40 translations of poems by Tomaž Šalamun in Changes Review, The Common, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Epiphany, Fence, New England Review, The New Humanist, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry London, Sixth Finch, and The Yale Review, among other journals.
- Manganaro Published
Thomas Manganaro, assistant professor of English, published the book, Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century with the University of Virginia Press.
- Manganaro Awarded
Thomas Manganaro, assistant professor of English, was awarded the Walker Cowen Prize for outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies for his book, Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century.
- Ashe Published
Bertram Ashe, professor of English and Africana studies advisory board member, published "American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance" in Sonic Identity at the Margins, co-edited by colleagues Joanna Love, associate professor of music, and Jessie Fillerup, associate professor of musicology.
- Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published three new books: Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation and translations of Aleš Šteger's The Book of Bodies and Written on Site: Costa da Morte and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published the lyric essay "In and Out of Order" in The Georgia Review.
- Henry Published
Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published translations of over 50 poems by Tomaž Šalamun, which have appeared recently in Agni, Blackbird, Guernica, Iterant, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry Review (UK), among other places.
Scholarship Repository Readership
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