Listen for Bruce Holsinger on With Good Reason
An interview with Professor Bruce Holsinger will air on With Good Reason beginning May 31st to June 6th. You can find broadcast times posted here.
English graduate students become new Scholars' Lab Fellows
The 2014-2015 Scholars' Lab graduate fellows include three graduate students from the English Department- Jennifer Foy, Amy Boyd, and Andrew Ferguson.
Rita Dove remembers the life and work of Maya Angelou
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English, has released the following statement on Maya Angelou's life and work:
Maya Angelou was indeed a phenomenal woman – rising from the ashes of a childhood that would have rendered many of us mute and enraged, she made her way in a world that all too often despised her kind – a black woman, tall, fierce, and most fearsome of all, unafraid.
Andrew Stauffer lectures on Byron in Greece
Professor Andrew Stauffer traveled to Greece as a representative of the Byron Society of America, where he gave a lecture on Byron’s poetry to approximately 200 local citizens of Messolonghi.
Jerome McGann elected to the American Philosophical Society
Jerome McGann, University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. He becomes the eighth U.Va. scholar to join the ranks of the country’s first learned society, joining such previous members as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Robert Frost. Election to the society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.
Emeritus Professor Charles Wright named America's Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress will name Charles Wright, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, America's next poet laureate. Wright, whose work he once described as reckoning with “language, landscape, and the idea of God,” has formerly won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Read more about Wright and his poetry at the New York Times article here.
Lisa Woolfork's 'Game of Thrones' class captivates students, media
Professor Lisa Woolfork has garnered a flurry of media attention with her popular 'Game of Thrones' course. The class, offered this summer as a four-week, discussion-based seminar, focuses on the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series and George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, on which the series is based. In their discussions, students analyzed the series in light of topics including racial and cultural allegory, gender roles and power, identity formation, and fan fiction.
Remembering Walter Sokel
Walter Sokel (1917-2014)
Lisa Woolfork's 'Game of Thrones' class in the WSJ
Professor Lisa Woolfork's recent summer class on 'Game of Thrones' continues to capture media attention. The following article in the Wall Street Journal gives an in depth look into the class, talking to students about their experiences immersing themselves in the 'Game of Thrones' world from a literary perspective. It also contains the exciting news that Professor Woolfork is considering offering the course again in different iterations, including possibly as a regular spring semester course.
English PhD Audrey Golden wins third place in National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
Audrey Golden, a recent PhD and lecturer in the English Department, has been named third prize winner in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. Contestants include the winners of three dozen book collecting contests held at colleges and universities across the country. Her entry, “Pablo Neruda and the Global Politics of Poetry,” had won first place in the 50th Student Book Collecting Contest sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia last spring.
The press release from the Bibliographical Society of UVA explains further:
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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
Friday, February 10th
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Elise Foote, Dissertation Talk
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- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Tuesday, February 14th
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Ernesto Mestre-Reed Reading
- Where: Commonwealth Room, Newcomb Hall
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
Friday, February 17th
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Jo Adams, Dissertation Talk
- Where: TBD
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Thursday, March 16th
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Miller Oberman Poetry Reading
- Where: Commonwealth Room, Newcomb Hall
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
Friday, March 17th
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John Modica, Dissertation Talk
- Where: TBD
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm