UVA English Department ranked among top 10 in nation
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.
Professor Stephen Cushman receives 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award
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.
UVA chosen to host Shakespeare's First Folio
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!
The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Literature after Feminism
Korean translation 2010
Uses of Literature
Turkish translation 2010; Polish translation 2016
Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
(co-edited with Susan Stanford Friedman)
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Stephen Parks
Stephen Parks
T. Kenny Fountain
Debjani Ganguly
Karen Chase
Alison Booth
Clare Kinney
Gordon Braden
Caroline Rody
J. Paul Hunter
A.C. Spearing
David Vander Meulen
Maurice Wallace
Anna Brickhouse
Cynthia Wall
Maurice Wallace
Stephen Cushman
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Events
Monday, August 26th
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MFA Orientation Meeting
- Where: English Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 03:30pm
Friday, September 13th
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Adrienne Ghaly lecture
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 01:00pm
- End time: 02:00pm
Thursday, September 19th
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Alvaro Enrigue Fiction Reading
- Where: UVA Bookstore, 400 Emmet St S, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
Thursday, September 26th
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"Burning the Library of Life": Species Extinction and the Humanities. A Symposium. Keynote: Ursula Heise (UCLA).
- Where: Harrison Small Auditorium
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 07:00pm
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John Pineda Poetry Reading
- Where: UVA Bookstore, 400 Emmet St S, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
Friday, September 27th
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Talk by Michael Bérubé (Penn State) (Time & Location TBD)
- Where: TBD
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Madeline Zehnder - Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm