New Writing Director James Seitz Discusses the Importance of Academic Writing

James Seitz, the new director of UVA's academic writing program, spoke to UVA Today about undergraduate writing requirements and the ways they might further enhance the university's educational goals. Seitz, who joined the English department faculty this semester, sees in small undergraduate writing courses abundant potential for thoughtful academic inquiry and rewarding student-teacher interaction.

Read more about these ideas and Seitz's own work here.

Professor Jahan Ramazani discusses judging the National Book Award for Poetry and other accomplishments

Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, talked to UVA Today about his recent professional accomplishments and service. Ramazani served as one of five judges for this year's National Book Award for Poetry, which was ultimately awarded to UVA English graduate Mary Szybist's Incarnadine. Ramazani also discussed his new book, Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres, which explores poetry's interactions with other forms of writing.

Doctoral candidate William Rhodes awarded 2014 Schallek Fellowship

English Department doctoral candidate William Rhodes has been awarded the 2014 Schallek Fellowship by the Medieval Academy of America. Rhodes is working with Professor Elizabeth Fowler on a dissertation entitled "The Ecology of Reform: Land and Labor from Piers Plowman to Edmund Spenser." This fellowship, which is supported by the Richard III Society, American Branch, provides a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (c.1350-1500).
 

Professor Brad Pasanek discusses the history and future of the book

Professor Brad Pasanek talked to Ploughshares Literary Magazine as part of their "People of the Book" series, a series of interviews charting an informal ethnography of the book. Pasanek fielded questions ranging from how he defines a book to his most unusual interaction with books, in addition to discussing his own book, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.

MFA alumna Eleanor Henderson's novel being made into a film

Eleanor Henderson's first novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is being made into a film. Henderson is a 2005 graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program and began her novel, which captures the straight edge youth counterculture of the 80s, while still a student at UVa. Shari Springer Berman and Bob Pulcini wrote the screenplay and are directing the film, and the film will star Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch, Julianne Nicholson, and Ethan Hawke.

Professor Stephen Cushman awarded Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professorship

The Teaching Awards Committee has honored Professor Stephen B. Cushman with the Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the highest teaching award at the University. This is the 23rd year of an awards program designed to recognize outstanding teaching in all schools of the University. For a further description of the award and past winners, click here.

New Global English Literature and Culture track added to Undergraduate Major

A new track has been added to the undergraduate English major. The undergraduate track in Global English Literature and Culture (GELC) allows students in the English major to extend their study into the widest contexts of international literary achievement. As with other paths through the major, it will offer engagement with major works in the Anglo-American literary tradition and will provide strong preparation in writing.

Modern Love's Dan Jones returns to UVa

UVa alumnus Daniel Jones, editor of the popular personal-essay column “Modern Love” in the New York Times, will be in the Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge this Monday, March 24, at 10am for a talk about writing, editing, and love. Jones's new book, Love Illuminated: Exploring Life’s Most Mystifying Subject (With the Help of 50,000 Strangers), is just out. You can read more about Jones, the stories of "Modern Love," and his time with the UVa English Department at the University of Virginia Magazine.

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Kiki Petrosino
Kevin Moffett
Kevin Moffett
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Lisa Russ Spaar
Bruce Holsinger
Jahan Ramazani
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Brian Teare
Brian Teare
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Brian Teare
Kiki Petrosino
Kiki Petrosino
Writing Communities
Stephen Parks
The Brick House
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
A Brief History of Yes
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Mirror in the Well
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Draining the Sea
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Daydreaming Boy
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Three Apples Fell From Heaven
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Hothead: A Poem
Stephen Cushman
Stauffer
Andrew Stauffer
Petronius’ Satyrica
J. Daniel Kinney
Cellar
Lisa Russ Spaar
Selected Poems
Rita Dove
The Craft of Argument
Jon D'Errico
Blue Pajamas
Stephen Cushman
Cussing Lesson
Stephen Cushman
Riffraff
Stephen Cushman
American Smooth
Rita Dove
The Rape of the Lock
Cynthia Wall
Best New Poets 2010
James (Jeb) Livingood
The Poet's World
Rita Dove
Museum
Rita Dove
Book icon
Lisa Russ Spaar
Robert Browning's Poetry
Andrew Stauffer
Blue Venus
Lisa Russ Spaar
Glass Town
Lisa Russ Spaar
Rethinking Tragedy
Rita Felski
Sonata Mulattica
Rita Dove
Fifth Sunday
Rita Dove
Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove
Mother Love
Rita Dove
Satin Cash
Lisa Russ Spaar
A Transnational Poetics
Jahan Ramazani
Modernism
Michael Levenson
Vanitas, Rough
Lisa Russ Spaar
Grace Notes
Rita Dove
Why Read?
Mark Edmundson
Heart Island
Stephen Cushman
Torn Sky
Debra Nystrom
Bad River Road
Debra Nystrom
A Burnable Book
Bruce Holsinger
The Invention of Fire
Bruce Holsinger
The Red List
Stephen Cushman
Orexia: Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
This Thing Called the World
Debjani Ganguly
Uses of Literature
Rita Felski
Nine Island
Jane Alison
A Quarter Turn
Debra Nystrom

Events

Tomorrow

  1. Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity (2022) by Prof. Simón Ventura Trujillo (New York University)
    • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge (via Zoom)
    • Start time: 05:30pm
    • End time: 06:30pm
    • Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity (2022) by Simón Ventura Trujillo (Professor Trujillo will be joining us via zoom in the Faculty Lounge at 5:30 pm). Please email Carmen Lamas at cel5x@virginia.edu for the excerpted reading.

Tuesday, September 17th

  1. Lorna Goodison Poetry Reading
    • Where: University Bookstore, 400 Emmet St S, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End time: 08:00pm

Friday, September 27th

  1. Mary Ruth Robinson Dissertation Presentation
    • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
    • Start time: 12:00pm
    • End time: 01:00pm
  2. Alli Dyer (BA '11) and Guion Pratt (MFA '15) Reading
    • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End time: 08:00pm
    • Alli Dyer will be reading from her debut novel, Strange Folk, and Guion Pratt will be performing an acoustic set of his music.

Monday, September 30th

  1. Constituting Central American Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (2018) by Prof. Maritza E. Cárdenas (University of Arizona)
    • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge (via Zoom)
    • Start time: 05:30pm
    • End time: 06:30pm
    • Constituting Central American Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (2018) by Maritza E. Cárdenas (Professor Cárdenas will be joining us via zoom in the Faculty Lounge at 5:30 pm). Please email Carmen Lamas at cel5x@virginia.edu for the excerpted reading.

Saturday, October 5th

  1. APPW/APLP Open Mic
    • Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End time: 08:00pm