The winner of the 2020 Henfield Prize, given to a creative writer in our graduate program for an excellent work of fiction is third-year poetry MFA student Aimee Seu for her story “Continued Existence.” The judge for this year’s award is the distinguished writer Dinaw Mengestu.
English Major Kristen Barrett earns Marshall Scholarship
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Please see the full announcement on the Poetry Society of America's website, here.
Cynthia Wall, William R. Kenan, Jr.
Edited with Shannon Carter, Deborah Mutnick, and Jessica Pauszek.
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Today
MFA alums Celeste Lipkes and Samantha Thornhill read from their poetry.
Tomorrow
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/
Tuesday, March 28th
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
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
A reading and conversation with Danielle Dutton, novelist and co-founder and editor of Dorothy
