English graduate students become new Scholars' Lab Fellows
The 2014-2015 Scholars' Lab graduate fellows include three graduate students from the English Department- Jennifer Foy, Amy Boyd, and Andrew Ferguson.
Rita Dove remembers the life and work of Maya Angelou
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English, has released the following statement on Maya Angelou's life and work:
Maya Angelou was indeed a phenomenal woman – rising from the ashes of a childhood that would have rendered many of us mute and enraged, she made her way in a world that all too often despised her kind – a black woman, tall, fierce, and most fearsome of all, unafraid.
Andrew Stauffer lectures on Byron in Greece
Professor Andrew Stauffer traveled to Greece as a representative of the Byron Society of America, where he gave a lecture on Byron’s poetry to approximately 200 local citizens of Messolonghi.
Jerome McGann elected to the American Philosophical Society
Jerome McGann, University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. He becomes the eighth U.Va. scholar to join the ranks of the country’s first learned society, joining such previous members as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Robert Frost. Election to the society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.
Emeritus Professor Charles Wright named America's Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress will name Charles Wright, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, America's next poet laureate. Wright, whose work he once described as reckoning with “language, landscape, and the idea of God,” has formerly won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Read more about Wright and his poetry at the New York Times article here.
Lisa Woolfork's 'Game of Thrones' class captivates students, media
Professor Lisa Woolfork has garnered a flurry of media attention with her popular 'Game of Thrones' course. The class, offered this summer as a four-week, discussion-based seminar, focuses on the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series and George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, on which the series is based. In their discussions, students analyzed the series in light of topics including racial and cultural allegory, gender roles and power, identity formation, and fan fiction.
Remembering Walter Sokel
Walter Sokel (1917-2014)
Lisa Woolfork's 'Game of Thrones' class in the WSJ
Professor Lisa Woolfork's recent summer class on 'Game of Thrones' continues to capture media attention. The following article in the Wall Street Journal gives an in depth look into the class, talking to students about their experiences immersing themselves in the 'Game of Thrones' world from a literary perspective. It also contains the exciting news that Professor Woolfork is considering offering the course again in different iterations, including possibly as a regular spring semester course.
English PhD Audrey Golden wins third place in National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
Audrey Golden, a recent PhD and lecturer in the English Department, has been named third prize winner in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. Contestants include the winners of three dozen book collecting contests held at colleges and universities across the country. Her entry, “Pablo Neruda and the Global Politics of Poetry,” had won first place in the 50th Student Book Collecting Contest sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia last spring.
The press release from the Bibliographical Society of UVA explains further:
PhD candidate Andrew Ferguson quoted as literary expert in The Guardian
PhD candidate Andrew Ferguson was quoted in The Guardian speaking about the works of science-fiction author RA Lafferty. The article credits Ferguson, alongside fellow enthusiast Neil Gaiman, for rekindling interest in Lafferty, described in the article as "the most important science-fiction writer you've never heard of." Ferguson is currently writing a biography of the author for the University of Illinois Modern Masters of Science Fiction series and will chair a panel on Lafferty on 14 August at Loncon, the World Science Fiction Convention, being held at London's Docklands.
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News & Announcements
December 6, 2023
Publications
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation and Historiography
Carmen Lamas
Stephen Parks
Stephen Parks
T. Kenny Fountain
Debjani Ganguly
Alison Booth
Clare Kinney
Caroline Rody
David Vander Meulen
Anna Brickhouse
Cynthia Wall
Stephen Cushman
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David Vander Meulen
John O'Brien
Events
Tomorrow
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Molly Nichols Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
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Jahan Ramazani, Faculty Lecture Series, "A Poetics of Postmourning: Elegy and the Caribbean"
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 03:00pm
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Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how imaginative works mourn this violent past. Building on the concept of 'postmemory' for the transgenerational aftereffects of trauma, this talk develops an overlapping concept of postmourning for the grief transferred to later generations and enacted in their creative work. It argues that elegies, though largely neglected as a genre of Caribbean writing, constitute a prominent literary site in which postmourning and remourning are undertaken.
Saturday, November 2nd
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Sofia Samatar, Opacities – in Conversation with Emily Ogden
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop: New Books & Gifts, 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
- Start time: 07:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
Thursday, November 7th
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Laleh Khadivi Fiction Reading
- Where: Monroe Hill House 252 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903, United States
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
Monday, November 11th
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Nick Montfort AI Talk
- Where: English Faculty Lounge, Bryan Hall, Second Floor, 229A
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
Tuesday, November 19th
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Camille Dungy Reading & Kapnick Writers Gala
- Where: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm