Professor Lisa Russ Spaar has been selected as one of three finalists for Baylor University's 2016 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the only national teaching award presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching.
Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Commonwealth Professor Rita Dove paid homage to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison at the March 12 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) annual awards ceremony at The New School in New York City. Professor Dove introduced Ms. Morrison as this year’s recipient of the NBCC’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. 
USA Today College ranks the University of Virginia’s English Department as one of the top ten places to get an English degree in the country.
English Professor Stephen Cushman has received the state's highest honor for professors, the Outstanding Faculty Award, given by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and Dominion Resources. The award recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, research and public service. Cushman joins UVA biology professor Sarah Kucenas among 13 faculty members selected this year from a pool of 88 nominees from institutions statewide. Cushman received his award on February 19 in Richmond.
A committee of English professors were instrumental in attracting William Shakespeare's "First Folio" to the University of Virginia. Eighteen of Shakespeare's plays are known today only because they were included in the “First Folio,” among them “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night,” “Julius Caesar,” “As You Like It” and “The Tempest." One of the most famous books in the world, the collection of plays will be on view at U.Va. – the only location in the commonwealth – as part of a 2016 national traveling exhibition, “First Folio!
Korean translation 2010
Turkish translation 2010; Polish translation 2016
(co-edited with Susan Stanford Friedman)
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Thursday, September 23rd
Sebastien Butler and Gahl Pratt Pardes
Friday, September 24th
UVA Kapnick Visiting Professor Rabih Almaeddine reads from his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, at New Dominion.
Wednesday, September 29th
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Thursday, September 30th
Join us for two afternoons (second on Oct. 1) of creative writing and visual art. Led by Fralin student docents and UVA Creative Writing instructors, get inspired to write in response to visual art as part of The Fralin’s annual writing competition Writer’s Eye. Space is limited. To register, email: museumoutreach@virginia.edu and indicate which session you want to attend.
Wheeler Light and Laura McGeheee
Friday, October 1st
Join us for two afternoons (second on Oct. 1) of creative writing and visual art. Led by Fralin student docents and UVA Creative Writing instructors, get inspired to write in response to visual art as part of The Fralin’s annual writing competition Writer’s Eye. Space is limited. To register, email: museumoutreach@virginia.edu and indicate which session you want to attend.
Celebrate Arts Week at The Fralin! See some of the current exhibitions on view: Skyscraper Gothic, Delicate Trades, Solitude. Enjoy refreshments, music, and a local food truck. Participants in “Creative Writing at The Fralin” will have an opportunity to read their original poetry or prose. Open to all, no registration required.
