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:
PhD candidate Andrew Ferguson quoted as literary expert in The Guardian
PhD candidate Andrew Ferguson was quoted in The Guardian speaking about the works of science-fiction author RA Lafferty. The article credits Ferguson, alongside fellow enthusiast Neil Gaiman, for rekindling interest in Lafferty, described in the article as "the most important science-fiction writer you've never heard of." Ferguson is currently writing a biography of the author for the University of Illinois Modern Masters of Science Fiction series and will chair a panel on Lafferty on 14 August at Loncon, the World Science Fiction Convention, being held at London's Docklands.
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News & Announcements
December 6, 2023
Publications
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation and Historiography
Carmen Lamas
Stephen Parks
Stephen Parks
T. Kenny Fountain
Debjani Ganguly
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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Invisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (2014) by Prof. T. Urayoán Noel (New York University)
- Start time: 05:30pm
- End time: 06:30pm
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Invisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (2014) by T. Urayoán Noel (Professor Noel 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.
Friday, October 11th
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Annie Persons Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
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JJJJJerome Ellis Poetry Reading
- Where: University Chapel
- Start time: 04:00pm
- End time: 05:00pm
Friday, October 18th
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Tarushi Sonthalia Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
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Eleni Stecopoulos: Dreaming in the Fault Zone – in Conversation with Brian Teare
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop: New Books & Gifts, 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
- Start time: 07:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
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Eleni Stecopoulos: Dreaming in the Fault Zone – in Conversation with Brian Teare
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop: New Books & Gifts, 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
- Start time: 07:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
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Eleni Stecopoulos: Dreaming in the Fault Zone – in Conversation with Brian Teare,7:00pm, New Dominion Bookshophttps://ndbookshop.com/events/eleni-stecopoulos-dreaming-in-the-fault-zone-in-conversation-with-brian-teare/
Tuesday, October 22nd
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Anne Spencer: I Am Here! Exhibition opening celebration
- Where: Harrison-Small Library
- Start time: 05:30pm
- End time: 07:00pm
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Come hear brief talks by Camille Dungy, Shaun Spencer-Hester, Director of the Spencer House and Garden Museum, and Alison Booth. Holly Robertson, Krystal Appiah, Jacquelyn Kim, and English major Tessa Berman, as well as Shaun and Alison collaborated on this exhibit about the Lynchburg poet and salonière, librarian, activist, gardener, 1882-1975, widely anthologized in the Harlem Renaissance journals and anthologies. The exhibit will remain through spring semester.
Thursday, October 24th
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“Digital/Analog Reading: A Symposium”
- Where: IHGC (Wilson Hall Ground Floor)
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Times TBD. “Digital/Analog Reading: A Symposium,” co-organized by Alison Booth, Rennie Mapp, and Jack Chen. IHGC, ground floor of Wilson Hall. Speakers: Anatoly Detwyler (Wisconsin), Nicholas Frankel (VCU), Christina Lupton (Warwick / Copenhagen), Bonnie Mak (Illinois), Allen Riddell (Indiana), and Inge van de Ven (Tilburg). The format will be the same as past reading symposia — short papers and plenty of time for conversation. Anyone is welcome to join the Reading Lab of IHGC, which has other events to discuss readings. Contact Jack Chen jwv8v@virginia.edu