Alison Booth has received a highly competitive Level-II Startup Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, to support a project entitled Cohorts of Women in Biographical Collections (CWBC).
Professor Lisa Russ Spaar has been selected as one of three finalists for Baylor University's 2016 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the only national teaching award presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching.
Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Commonwealth Professor Rita Dove paid homage to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison at the March 12 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) annual awards ceremony at The New School in New York City. Professor Dove introduced Ms. Morrison as this year’s recipient of the NBCC’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. 
USA Today College ranks the University of Virginia’s English Department as one of the top ten places to get an English degree in the country.
English Professor Stephen Cushman has received the state's highest honor for professors, the Outstanding Faculty Award, given by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and Dominion Resources. The award recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, research and public service. Cushman joins UVA biology professor Sarah Kucenas among 13 faculty members selected this year from a pool of 88 nominees from institutions statewide. Cushman received his award on February 19 in Richmond.
A committee of English professors were instrumental in attracting William Shakespeare's "First Folio" to the University of Virginia. Eighteen of Shakespeare's plays are known today only because they were included in the “First Folio,” among them “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night,” “Julius Caesar,” “As You Like It” and “The Tempest." One of the most famous books in the world, the collection of plays will be on view at U.Va. – the only location in the commonwealth – as part of a 2016 national traveling exhibition, “First Folio!
Korean translation 2010
Turkish translation 2010; Polish translation 2016
(co-edited with Susan Stanford Friedman)
Today
Talley English (Horse), Michael Knight (At Briarwood School for Girls), and Kristyn Kusek Lewis (Half of What You Hear) discuss their writing and intricately imagined characters, and the setting of the American South as an influence on their work.
Tomorrow
Jane Alison (Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative) and Lois Farfel Stark (The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times) explore the joys of breaking the bounds of their chosen media, the narrative and the image, to challenge our conventional understandings of history, art and form.
Joelle Biele (Tramp), Kyle Dargan (Anagnorisis), and DaMaris Hill (A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing) read from their latest collections of poetry.
Caleb Nolen Piers Gelly
Friday, March 22nd
Alumni from UVA’s Creative Writing Program, Libby Burton (Soft Volcano), Laura Eve Engel (Things That Go), James McLaughlin (Bearskin), and Valencia Robin (Ridiculous Light) read from their newest works.
Marina Perezagua (The Story of H), Christopher Tilghman (Thomas and Beal in the Midi), and Spencer Wise (The Emperor of Shoes) discuss how and why their novels transport readers to far-flung lands, through complex, multi-layered fiction featuring captivating characters.
Acclaimed poets Sherwin Bitsui (Dissolve) and Diana Khoi Nguyen (Ghost Of) read from and discuss their new collections of poetry.
Saturday, March 23rd
Speakers Gary Dop, Trudy Hale, Cathryn Hankla, Joy Heyrman, and Jeb Livingood offer an overview of Virginia’s university-based creative writing programs, writer residencies, and writing retreats.
Poets Francesca Bell (Bright Stain), Lindsay Bernal (What It Doesn’t Have to Do With), and Remica Bingham-Risher (Starlight & Error) read from new collections.
