UVA English Department ranked among top 10 in nation
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.
Professor Stephen Cushman receives 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award
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.
UVA chosen to host Shakespeare's First Folio
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!
The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Literature after Feminism
Korean translation 2010
Uses of Literature
Turkish translation 2010; Polish translation 2016
Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
(co-edited with Susan Stanford Friedman)
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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
Today
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UVA Creative Writing Alumni Reading
- Where: Visible/Records
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 07:00pm
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MFA alums Celeste Lipkes and Samantha Thornhill read from their poetry.
Tomorrow
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Humanities Week 2023: Back to the Present
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Humanities Week 2023: Back to the Present. This IHGC-sponsored series of events is hosted by and for UVA undergraduates from across disciplines in a celebration of the Humanities! This year's theme, "Back to the Present," is an homage to the fact that many of us are still "catching up" to the rapid social and technological changes that took place during the pandemic. Join us for some of our nearly dozen events, including a Back to the Future movie viewing, a "Human or AI?" trivia competition in Bryan, and a tabletop showcase featuring board games designed by ENWR students! : https://www.hw-uva.com/
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Tuesday, March 28th
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Kohler Seminar in Queer, Trans, + Feminist Studies for a discussion of Gayle Salamon's The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 05:30pm
- End time: 06:30pm
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Next Tuesday (3/28) at 5:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge, please join the Kohler Seminar in Queer, Trans, + Feminist Studies for a discussion of Gayle Salamon's The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia. A digital copy is available through Virgo here.
Friday, March 31st
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Global Decadence, Race, and the Future of Decadence Studies Conference
- Where: Online Conference
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Global Decadence, Race, and the Future of Decadence Studies Conference. The plenary speakers are Shola von Reinhold, author of contemporary Decadent novel LOTE (2020), and Robert Stilling, scholar of Decadence and an alum from our very own department. It will be held online; more details, including the CFP, are on decadence-2023.com.
Tuesday, April 4th
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Perfect Binding: Publishing, Politics, Prose
- Where: Virginia Center for Book - Jefferson School City Center, 233 4th Street NW, Charlottesville, VA
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 07:00pm
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A reading and conversation with Danielle Dutton, novelist and co-founder and editor of Dorothy