The Garden Politic
Prof. Jahan Ramazani elected into the American Philosophical Society
Jahan Ramazani is just the 10th UVA faculty member asked to become a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest academic society in the United States.
Full article in UVA Today here.
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature
Summer 2022 | Undergraduate Courses
Session I (May 23 - June 18)
ENGL 3570 - Black Superheroes
1030-1245 (Bryan 310)
Lisa Woolfork
Graduate Course Descriptions | Fall 2022
Creative Writing
ENCW 7310-001 - MFA Poetry Workshop
M 02:00PM-04:30PM (Bryan 233)
Brian Teare
Restricted to Instructor Permission.
Brian Teare
Restricted to Instructor Permission.
ENCW 7610-001 - MFA Fiction Workshop
Undergraduate Course Descriptions | Fall 2022
* (in orange) indicates courses that count towards the Pre-1700 requirement for the English major.
** (in blue) indicates courses that count towards the 1700-1900 requirement for the English major.
In Memoriam: Wide-Ranging Literary and Pop Culture Critic Paul Cantor
Rita Dove & Kiki Petrosino on Orion Recommendations for Black History Month
Orion Magazine has listed Professor Rita Dove’s Playlist for the Apocalypse & Professor Kiki Petrosino’s White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia among twelve recommended poetry books for Black History Month.
https://orionmagazine.org/2022/02/twelve-poetry-recommendations-for-black-history-month/
Playlist for the Apocalypse
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Publications
Jerome McGann
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation and Historiography
Carmen Lamas
Paul Cantor
Stephen Parks
Stephen Parks
T. Kenny Fountain
Debjani Ganguly
Karen Chase
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
Today
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UVA Creative Writing Alumni Reading
- Where: Visible/Records
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 07:00pm
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MFA alums Celeste Lipkes and Samantha Thornhill read from their poetry.
Tomorrow
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Humanities Week 2023: Back to the Present
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Humanities Week 2023: Back to the Present. This IHGC-sponsored series of events is hosted by and for UVA undergraduates from across disciplines in a celebration of the Humanities! This year's theme, "Back to the Present," is an homage to the fact that many of us are still "catching up" to the rapid social and technological changes that took place during the pandemic. Join us for some of our nearly dozen events, including a Back to the Future movie viewing, a "Human or AI?" trivia competition in Bryan, and a tabletop showcase featuring board games designed by ENWR students! : https://www.hw-uva.com/
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Tuesday, March 28th
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Kohler Seminar in Queer, Trans, + Feminist Studies for a discussion of Gayle Salamon's The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 05:30pm
- End time: 06:30pm
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Next Tuesday (3/28) at 5:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge, please join the Kohler Seminar in Queer, Trans, + Feminist Studies for a discussion of Gayle Salamon's The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia. A digital copy is available through Virgo here.
Friday, March 31st
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Global Decadence, Race, and the Future of Decadence Studies Conference
- Where: Online Conference
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Global Decadence, Race, and the Future of Decadence Studies Conference. The plenary speakers are Shola von Reinhold, author of contemporary Decadent novel LOTE (2020), and Robert Stilling, scholar of Decadence and an alum from our very own department. It will be held online; more details, including the CFP, are on decadence-2023.com.
Tuesday, April 4th
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Perfect Binding: Publishing, Politics, Prose
- Where: Virginia Center for Book - Jefferson School City Center, 233 4th Street NW, Charlottesville, VA
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 07:00pm
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A reading and conversation with Danielle Dutton, novelist and co-founder and editor of Dorothy