Rita Dove receives Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

The National Book Foundation, administrator of the annual National Book Awards, announced that Rita Dove is the recipient of this year's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is only the fourth poet to be so honored, after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1994, Adrienne Rich in 2006 and John Ashbery in 2011.

 

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Bright: A Memoir
Kiki Petrosino

Languages of Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives
Joshua Miller

Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
Joshua Miller

Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel
Joshua Miller

Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction
Joshua Miller

The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the On-line World
Mark Edmundson

Permanent Visitors
Kevin Moffett

Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Kevin Moffett

The Silent History
Kevin Moffett

Small Pieces
Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Children’s Ours of a Certain Age
Jerome McGann

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
Jerome McGann

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes. The Unsettled Records of American Settlement
Jerome McGann

The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Mary Kuhn

Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature
Christopher Krentz

Playlist for the Apocalypse
Rita Dove

Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Marlon Ross

On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
Emily Ogden

Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy
Mark Edmundson

Realist Critiques of Visual Culture: From Hardy to Barnes
Edward Barnaby

Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar

Paradise Close
Lisa Russ Spaar

Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works
Stephen Cushman

The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today
Stephen Cushman

Thomas and Beal in the Midi
Christopher Tilghman

The Gifted School
Bruce Holsinger

The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England
Rebecca Rush

Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library
Andrew Stauffer

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation and Historiography
Carmen Lamas

Poetry in a Global Age
Jahan Ramazani

The New American
Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Best New Poets 2020: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
James (Jeb) Livingood

More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar

Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
Cynthia Wall

Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era
Stephen Parks

Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies
Paul Cantor

The Room Where I Was Born
Brian Teare

Sight Map
Brian Teare

Pleasure
Brian Teare

Companion Grasses
Brian Teare

The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
Brian Teare

Doomstead Days
Brian Teare

Fort Red Border
Kiki Petrosino

Hymn for the Black Terrific
Kiki Petrosino

Witch Wife
Kiki Petrosino

White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
Kiki Petrosino
Meander

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison
Civil War Writing

Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts
Stephen Cushman
Writing Communities

Writing Communities
Stephen Parks
Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing

Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing
Stephen Parks
Listening to Our Elders: Working and Writing for Change

Listening to Our Elders: Working and Writing for Change
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2017

The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2017
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2015-2016

The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2015-2016
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2014

The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2014
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2013

The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2013
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2012

The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2012
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2011

The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2011
Stephen Parks
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2010

The Best of Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2010
Stephen Parks
Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love

Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love
Stephen Parks
The Republic of Letters: Working Class Writing and Local Publishing

The Republic of Letters: Working Class Writing and Local Publishing
Stephen Parks
Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)

Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)
Stephen Parks
Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)

Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)
Stephen Parks
Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood

Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood
Tamika L. Carey
Fountain Rhetoric in the Flesh

Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab
T. Kenny Fountain
Berenato Cover

David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture: Unpublished Prose
Thomas Berenato
Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930

Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
Lindgren Johnson
Northranger Abbey: Norton Critical Edition

Northranger Abbey: Norton Critical Edition
Susan Fraiman
In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History

In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History
Rita Felski
In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History

In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History
Susan Fraiman
Experimental Writing in Composition

Experimental Writing in Composition: Aesthetics and Pedagogies
Patricia Suzanne Sullivan
The Brick House

The Brick House
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
A Brief History of Yes

A Brief History of Yes
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Mirror in the Well

The Mirror in the Well
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Draining the Sea

Draining the Sea
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Daydreaming Boy

The Daydreaming Boy
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Three Apples Fell From Heaven

Three Apples Fell From Heaven
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Publication icon

Postmodern Poetries (Special Issue of Verse Vol. 7 No. 1, Spring 1990)
Jerome McGann
Victorian Connections

Victorian Connections
Jerome McGann
The Oxford Authors: Byron

The Oxford Authors: Byron
Jerome McGann
Historical Studies and Literary Criticism

Historical Studies and Literary Criticism
Jerome McGann
Publication icon

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Byron
Jerome McGann
Publication icon

Textual Studies and Literary Interpretation
Jerome McGann
Pelham

Pelham; or the Adventures of a Gentleman, by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Jerome McGann
Publication icon

Nerves in Patterns [poems, with James Kahn]
Jerome McGann
Publication icon

Writing Home [poems, with Janet Kauffman]
Jerome McGann
Air Heart Sermons

Air Heart Sermons
Jerome McGann
Don Juan in Context

Don Juan in Context
Jerome McGann
Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism

Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism
Jerome McGann
Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development

Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development
Jerome McGann
Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity: Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity: Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
Debjani Ganguly
Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual

Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual
Debjani Ganguly
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives
Debjani Ganguly
Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Perspectives

Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Perspectives
Debjani Ganguly
Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies

Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies
Andrew Stauffer
Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation

Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation
Andrew Stauffer
Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening

Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening
Steph Ceraso
The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World

The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World
Jerome McGann
The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Jerome McGann
Martin Delany. Blake; or The Huts of America

Martin Delany. Blake; or The Huts of America
Jerome McGann
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Byron's Manfred
Jerome McGann
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (6 Volumes)

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (6 Volumes)
Jerome McGann
Are the Humanities Inconsequent?

Are the Humanities Inconsequent?

Jerome McGann
Credulity

Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Emily Ogden
Hothead: A Poem

Hothead: A Poem
Stephen Cushman
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The Norton Shakespeare (Third Edition)
Katharine Maus
The Eighteenth Centuries

The Eighteenth Centuries: Global Networks of Enlightenment
Cynthia Wall
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Paul Cantor
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 8: MS. F

Peter Baker
Under Criticism

Under Criticism: Essays in Honor of William H. Pritchard
Herbert Tucker
Browning's Beginnings

Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure
Herbert Tucker
Roads of the Heart

Roads of the Heart
Christopher Tilghman
Stauffer

She: A History of Adventure
Andrew Stauffer
Social Values and Poetic Acts

Social Values and Poetic Acts
Jerome McGann
The Textual Condition

The Textual Condition
Jerome McGann
Black Riders

Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism
Jerome McGann
Poetics of Sensibility

Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style
Jerome McGann
Radiant Textuality

Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web
Jerome McGann
Byron and Romanticism

Byron and Romanticism
Jerome McGann
A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism

A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism
Jerome McGann
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology
Katharine Maus
Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind

Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind
Katharine Maus
Four Revenge Tragedies of the English Renaissance

Four Revenge Tragedies of the English Renaissance
Katharine Maus
Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance

Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Katharine Maus
Seeing Together

Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing, from Mill to Woolf
Victor Luftig
A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908-1922

A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908-1922
Michael Levenson
Levenson

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism: Edited by Michael Levenson
Michael Levenson
A Mighty Change

A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing 1816-1864

Christopher Krentz
Petronius’ Satyrica

Petronius’ Satyrica
J. Daniel Kinney
Best Little Stories from the Wild West

Best Little Stories from the Wild West
C. Brian Kelly
Best Little Stories From the American Revolution

Best Little Stories From the American Revolution
C. Brian Kelly
Best Little Stories from the Blue and the Gray

Best Little Stories from the Blue and the Gray
C. Brian Kelly
Best Little Stories From the White House

Best Little Stories From the White House
C. Brian Kelly
Best Little Stories From World War II

Best Little Stories From World War II
C. Brian Kelly
Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman

Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman
Walter Jost
Cellar

Cellar
Lisa Russ Spaar
Acquainted With the Night

Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse

The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse
Jerome McGann
Best Little Stories from Virginia

Best Little Stories from Virginia
C. Brian Kelly
William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of Measure

William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of Measure
Stephen Cushman
Fictions of Form in American Poetry

Fictions of Form in American Poetry
Stephen Cushman
Kneeling on Rice

Kneeling on Rice: Stories
Elizabeth Denton
Wild Orchids and Trotsky

Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities
Mark Edmundson
The Beauty of Inflections

The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory
Jerome McGann
Best Little Stories from the Civil War

Best Little Stories from the Civil War
C. Brian Kelly
Rhetorical Investigations

Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism
Walter Jost
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change
Rita Felski
Doing Time

Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture

Rita Felski
Towards Reading Freud

Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund

Mark Edmundson
Teacher

Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference

Mark Edmundson
Through the Ivory Gate

Through the Ivory Gate
Rita Dove
Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Rita Dove
The Craft of Argument

The Craft of Argument
Jon D'Errico
Blue Pajamas

Blue Pajamas
Stephen Cushman
Cussing Lesson

Cussing Lesson
Stephen Cushman
Riffraff

Riffraff
Stephen Cushman
Bloody Promenade

Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle
Stephen Cushman
Eros and Psyche

Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot
Karen Chase
The Spectacle of Intimacy

The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family
Karen Chase
The Spectacle of Intimacy

The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family
Jacob C. Levenson
The Victorians and Old Age

The Victorians and Old Age
Karen Chase
Creature and Creator

Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism
Paul Cantor
Shakespeare: Hamlet

Shakespeare: Hamlet: Second Edition
Paul Cantor
Macbeth und die Evangelisierung von Schottland

Macbeth und die Evangelisierung von Schottland
Paul Cantor
Greatness Engendered

Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
Alison Booth
American Smooth

American Smooth
Rita Dove
Mason's Retreat

Mason's Retreat: Newly Revised Edition
Christopher Tilghman
How to Make It as a Woman

How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present
Alison Booth
Strategies of Poetic Narrative

Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot
Clare Kinney
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 Volume 4 Mary Wroth

Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 Volume 4 Mary Wroth: Edited by Clare R. Kinney
Clare Kinney
The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress: Editor, the Norton Critical Edition of John Bunyan
Cynthia Wall
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Rita Dove
The Premodern Condition

The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
Bruce Holsinger
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
Bruce Holsinger
Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry

Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives
Walter Jost
Concise Companion to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

Concise Companion to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

Cynthia Wall
The Rape of the Lock

The Rape of the Lock
Cynthia Wall
Mason's Retreat

Mason's Retreat: A Novel
Christopher Tilghman
Best New Poets 2010

Best New Poets 2010
James (Jeb) Livingood
Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire

Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire
Paul Cantor
The Poet's World

The Poet's World
Rita Dove
Museum

Museum
Rita Dove
Lady Freedom Among Us

Lady Freedom Among Us

Rita Dove
Book icon

Evening Primrose: Selected Poems
Rita Dove
Book icon

Blind Boy on Skates: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
The Land of Wandering

The Land of Wandering: Exquisite History, Volume 1

Lisa Russ Spaar
Book icon

Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson

Herbert Tucker
Victorian Literature 1830-1900

Victorian Literature 1830-1900
Herbert Tucker
The Way People Run

The Way People Run: Stories
Christopher Tilghman
Robert Browning's Poetry

Robert Browning's Poetry
Andrew Stauffer
Blue Venus

Blue Venus: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
All That Mighty Heart: London Poems

All That Mighty Heart: London Poems: London Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
Glass Town

Glass Town: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
Nightmare on Main Street

Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sado-Masochism, and the Culture of Gothic

Mark Edmundson
On the Bus with Rosa Parks

On the Bus with Rosa Parks

Rita Dove
The Hybrid Muse

The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English
Jahan Ramazani
The Daughter’s Return

The Daughter’s Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History
Caroline Rody
Modernism and the Fate of Individuality

Modernism and the Fate of Individuality
Michael Levenson
Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism

Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism
Andrew Stauffer
Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century

Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century
Karen Chase
Imagining Our Americas

Imagining Our Americas: Nation, Empire, and Region
Sandhya Shukla
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture

Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture: A unique study of slavery reenactments and performances in African American literature and culture
Lisa Woolfork
Rethinking Tragedy

Rethinking Tragedy
Rita Felski
Sonata Mulattica

Sonata Mulattica
Rita Dove
The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London

The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London
Cynthia Wall
A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year : Editor
Cynthia Wall
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed.

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed.
Jahan Ramazani
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th and 9th eds.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th and 9th eds.
Jahan Ramazani
Yeats and the Poetry of Death

Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime
Jahan Ramazani
Poetry of Mourning

Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
Jahan Ramazani
The Wonder

The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret

John O'Brien
The Yellow House on the Corner

The Yellow House on the Corner
Rita Dove
Fifth Sunday

Fifth Sunday
Rita Dove
Thomas and Beulah

Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove
The Best American Poetry 2000

The Best American Poetry 2000

Rita Dove
The Darker Face of the Earth

The Darker Face of the Earth
Rita Dove
Mother Love

Mother Love: Poems
Rita Dove
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century
Cynthia Wall
Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror

Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror
Bruce Holsinger
Epic

Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
Herbert Tucker
Satin Cash

Satin Cash: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
The Interethnic Imagination

The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction
Caroline Rody
Literature and the Economics of Liberty

Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture
Paul Cantor
A Transnational Poetics

A Transnational Poetics
Jahan Ramazani
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Stephen Cushman
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Jahan Ramazani
Modernism

Modernism
Michael Levenson
Boredom

Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind
Lisa Russ Spaar
Vanitas, Rough

Vanitas, Rough: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture

The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture : Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV
Paul Cantor
Grace Notes

Grace Notes
Rita Dove
Why Read?

Why Read?
Mark Edmundson
The Genius of Democracy

The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States
Victoria Olwell
Towards a Literature of Knowledge

Towards a Literature of Knowledge
Jerome McGann
Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism

Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism
Herbert Tucker
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida

Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida

Mark Edmundson
In a Father's Place

In a Father's Place: Stories
Christopher Tilghman
The Contours of Masculine Desire

The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry
Marlon Ross
The Right-Hand Shore

The Right-Hand Shore
Christopher Tilghman
William Morris News from Nowhere

William Morris News from Nowhere

Stephen Arata
New Grub Street (George Gissing)

New Grub Street (George Gissing): Edited by Stephen Arata
Stephen Arata
H.G. Wells The Time Machine

H.G. Wells The Time Machine: Edited by Stephen Arata
Stephen Arata
Stevenson and Conrad (co-edited with Linda Dryden and Eric Massie)

Stevenson and Conrad (co-edited with Linda Dryden and Eric Massie)
Stephen Arata
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle

Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire
Stephen Arata
The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll
Mark Edmundson
Heart Island

Heart Island
Stephen Cushman
Kinney

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vols. 3/2 (last third) and 15 = More's controversy with Germain de Brie (Brixius); In Defense of Humanism (humanist letter-essays); and The History of King Richard III
J. Daniel Kinney
Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust

Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust
David Vander Meulen
Where Angels Fear to Tread

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope
David Vander Meulen
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia

The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: The First Fifty Years
David Vander Meulen
Change Me

Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid
Jane Alison
Motives for Metaphor

Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum, and the Teaching of English
James Seitz
Poetry and Its Others

Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
Jahan Ramazani
Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization

Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization
Paul Cantor
The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry

The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry
Lisa Russ Spaar
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: paperback edition
Rita Dove
Book icon

Four Last Poems
Jerome McGann
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings
Jerome McGann
Byron and Wordsworth

Byron and Wordsworth
Jerome McGann
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Collected Works

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Collected Works
Jerome McGann
Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's Jest Book

Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's Jest Book: A Stage Version
Jerome McGann
Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane: The Black Riders and Other Lines
Jerome McGann
Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture
Jerome McGann
The Invention Tree

The Invention Tree
Jerome McGann
Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf

Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf
Peter Baker
Being and Having in Shakespeare

Being and Having in Shakespeare
Katharine Maus
The Aesthetics of Antichrist

The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe
John Parker
The Norton Anthology of English Literature

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Edited with Stephen Greenblatt et al
Katharine Maus
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769

The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Peter Baker
The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone

The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone
Peter Baker
Byrhtferth's Enchiridion

Byrhtferth's Enchiridion
Peter Baker
Introduction to Old English

Introduction to Old English

Peter Baker
Leaving Pipe Shop

Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
Deborah McDowell
The Romantic Ideology

The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation
Jerome McGann
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost
Jerome McGann
Manning the Race

Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Marlon Ross
India Abroad

India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
Sandhya Shukla
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
Anna Brickhouse
Literary Character

Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing
Elizabeth Fowler
The Love-Artist

The Love-Artist: A Novel
Jane Alison
The Marriage of the Sea

The Marriage of the Sea: A Novel
Jane Alison
Natives and Exotics

Natives and Exotics: A Novel
Jane Alison
The Sisters Antipodes

The Sisters Antipodes: (memoir)
Jane Alison
Writing Deafness

Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Christopher Krentz
Hlóþwíg Carroll

Hlóþwíg Carroll : Æðelgýðe Ellendǽda on Wundorlande, trans.
Peter Baker
A Companion to the English Novel

A Companion to the English Novel
Stephen Arata
A Companion to the English Novel

A Companion to the English Novel
J. Paul Hunter
Middlemarch

Middlemarch: Landmarks in World Literature Series
Karen Chase
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time
Walter Jost
Ordinary Language Criticism

Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein
Jerome McGann
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
Walter Jost
The Essential Wayne Booth

The Essential Wayne Booth: Edited and with an Introduction by Walter Jost
Walter Jost
The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature

The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature: co-edited with Garry Hagberg
Walter Jost
A New Republic of Letters: Humanities Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction

A New Republic of Letters: Humanities Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction
Jerome McGann
Torn Sky

Torn Sky
Debra Nystrom
Bad River Road

Bad River Road
Debra Nystrom
Best Little Stories from World War I

Best Little Stories from World War I
C. Brian Kelly
The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel

The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel
Jerome McGann
"The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory

"The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory
Deborah McDowell
The Punitive Turn

The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
Deborah McDowell
A Burnable Book

A Burnable Book
Bruce Holsinger
The Invention of Fire

The Invention of Fire
Bruce Holsinger
In Stereotype

In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Mrinalini Chakravorty
The Unsettlement of America

The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945
Anna Brickhouse
The Red List

The Red List: A Poem
Stephen Cushman
Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms

Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter

Cynthia Wall
Best Little Ironies, Oddities and Mysteries of the Civil War

Best Little Ironies, Oddities and Mysteries of the Civil War
C. Brian Kelly
The Humanities and Everyday Life

The Humanities and Everyday Life
Michael Levenson
The Death of Sigmund Freud

The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days
Mark Edmundson
Metaphors of Mind

Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
Brad Pasanek
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Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come
Jerome McGann
Joyce and the Subject of History

Joyce and the Subject of History
Victor Luftig
Harlequin Britain

Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment
John O'Brien
Belligerent Muse

Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
Stephen Cushman
Why Teach?

Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education
Mark Edmundson
Why Football Matters

Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game
Mark Edmundson
A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

Herbert Tucker
MOSQUITOES [by William Faulkner]

MOSQUITOES [by William Faulkner]: A Facsimile and Transcription of the University of Virginia Holograph Manuscript
David Vander Meulen
Pope’s DUNCIAD of 1728: A History and Facsimile

Pope’s DUNCIAD of 1728: A History and Facsimile
David Vander Meulen
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Major Poems and Selected Prose

Algernon Charles Swinburne. Major Poems and Selected Prose
Jerome McGann
Literature Incorporated

Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
John O'Brien
The Heart of the Humanities

The Heart of the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching
Mark Edmundson
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry
Jahan Ramazani
Shantytown, U.S.A.

Shantytown, U.S.A.: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
Lisa Goff
Orexia: Poems

Orexia: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
Unbecoming Women

Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
Susan Fraiman
Cool Men and the Second Sex

Cool Men and the Second Sex
Susan Fraiman
Extreme Domesticity

Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins
Susan Fraiman
This Thing Called the World

This Thing Called the World
Debjani Ganguly
Critique and Postcritique

Critique and Postcritique
Rita Felski
Literature after Feminism

Literature after Feminism
Rita Felski
The Gender of Modernity

The Gender of Modernity

Rita Felski
Uses of Literature

Uses of Literature
Rita Felski
Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust

Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
Rita Felski
Why Write?

Why Write?: A Master Class in the Art of Writing and Why It Matters
Mark Edmundson
Homes and Haunts

Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries
Alison Booth
Nine Island

Nine Island
Jane Alison
A Quarter Turn

A Quarter Turn
Debra Nystrom
New literary history

Song: special issue of NLH
Jahan Ramazani
New literary history

Song: special issue of NLH
Herbert Tucker
The Death of Sigmund Freud

The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
Mark Edmundson
Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals

Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals
Mark Edmundson
Monticello in Mind

Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson
Lisa Russ Spaar
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries

The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
Stephen Cushman
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Stephen Cushman
Knowing

The Knowing Most Worth Doing: Essays on Pluralism, Ethics, and Religion
Walter Jost
Collected Poems: 1974-2004

Collected Poems: 1974-2004
Rita Dove
Night Sky Frequencies and Selected Poems

Night Sky Frequencies and Selected Poems
Debra Nystrom
The Limits of Critique

The Limits of Critique
Rita Felski
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of English Literature

Teaching with the Norton Anthology of English Literature: A Guide for Instructors
Elizabeth Fowler
The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World

The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Elizabeth Fowler

Events

Friday, January 26th

  1. Katherine Churchill Dissertation Presentation
    • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
    • Start time: 12:00pm
    • End time: 01:00pm

Friday, February 16th

  1. Tucker Kuman Dissertation Presentation
    • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
    • Start time: 12:00pm
    • End time: 01:00pm

Friday, February 23rd

  1. Annyston Pennington Dissertation Presentation
    • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
    • Start time: 12:00pm
    • End time: 01:00pm

Thursday, March 14th

  1. Amir Ahmadi Arian Fiction Reading
    • Where: Commonwealth Room, Newcomb Hall
    • Start time: 05:00pm
    • End time: 06:00pm

Thursday, March 21st

  1. A Standing Witness
    • Where: Old Cabell Hall 112 Old Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176, United States
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End time: 08:00pm

    • Rita Dove's "A Standing Witness" will be performed on Thursday, March 21 and Saturday, 23, 2024 at Old Cabell Hall, sung by the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. There will likely be a pre-concert discussion featuring the musical director of Copland House, Michael Boriskin, the composer Richard Danielpour, and Rita Dove.