Announcing Songs of the Victorians
On Monday, March 11, English PhD student Joanna Swafford will launch the pre-release of Songs of the Victorians, an archive of parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems, and also a scholarly tool to facilitate interdisciplinary music and poetry scholarship.
English department ranked in top ten by U. S. News and World Report
This year, U.S. News also conducted new peer surveys and published new rankings for Ph.D. programs in economics, English, history, political science, psychology and sociology – all parts of U.Va.’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Those programs were last ranked five years ago.
Professor Paul Cantor Featured in UVA Today Daily Report
Professor Paul Cantor's article was recently featured in UVA Today's Daily Report. You can read the full article at: http://beforeitsnews.com/gold-and-precious-metals/2013/03/fsn-the-walkin....
Professor Stephen Railton wins NEH digital start-up grant for Digital Yoknapatawpha
A team including Professor Stephen Railton were recently awarded one of the NEH's new Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants.
UVa's Professor Rita Dove Lectures at NIH
On March 13, 2013, UVa’s Commonwealth Professor of English toured the Children’s Inn and a pediatric unit of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and gave the NIH’s annual 2013 J.
Rita Dove to Deliver Emory Commencement Speech and Receive Two Honorary Degrees from Emerson College and Emory University
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, UVA’s Commonwealth Professor of English Rita Dove will deliver the keynote address at Emory University’s 168th commencement ceremony Monday, May 13, in Atlanta. She also will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree. A day earlier on Sunday, May 12, Dove will be in Boston to receive a Doctor of Humane Letters from Emerson College at its 133rd commencement exercises.
Commonwealth Professor Rita Dove Releases Poetry Anthology
Commonwealth Professor Rita Dove’s paperback edition of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry will be released on September 24, 2013.
Mark Edmundson on the Ideal English Major, CHE
Professor Mark Edmundson's piece on the "Ideal English Major" was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Commonwealth Professor Rita Dove publishes new poem, "Trayvon, Redux"
Commonwealth Professor Rita Dove published her new poem "Trayvon, Redux" on July 16, 2013 in the online magazine The Root.
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MFA Reading Series
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Cherrie Kwok Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Minor Hall 110
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Thursday, December 7th
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MFA Reading Series
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
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Friday, January 26th
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Katherine Churchill Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Friday, February 16th
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Tucker Kuman Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm