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Graduate Student Research

Support student research, including travel to archives and conferences, with a gift to Literatures in English on March 16, Giving Day 2023!

Recent Faculty Books

Why do critical theorists, legal theorists, and literary critics keep celebrating paradoxes? Liz Anker argues for an expanded, diversified theory toolkit that can help theorists escape the seductions and traps of paradox. Mary Pat Brady’s new book invites us to track a long history of Latinx captivity by the US state, from chattel slavery to incarceration and deportation. Reading novels by Helena María Viramontes, Oscar Casares, Lorraine López, Daniel Peña, and others, Brady shows how literature reveals submerged mechanisms of constraint.

Read more about these two recent faculty books.

From the Alumni Mailbag

We asked alumni about their favorite professors, what they are reading, and what they are doing with their English degrees!  Read more

Ann Coffeen Turner (1952): "I suppose no one today will have taken a course with Professor George Healey..."

Jim Schmidt (1966): "When I arrived at Cornell back in 1962, I didn’t have a clue what I wanted to study or much of a clue generally..."

James Tenser (1979): "When I read about Ken McClane’s retirement (and enjoyed his fine poem), I took another look at my treasured copy of his book..."

Sung J. Woo (1994): "Back in 1994, I graduated Cornell with a degree in English, but my path to receiving my diploma from the back of Goldwin Smith was rather detoured..."

Janice Obuchowski (1998): "Janice Obuchowski is the author of The Woods, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award..."

Steve Borst (2000): "Since 2017 I've been working on a documentary called Inherent Good, which explores the increasingly popular idea of Universal Basic Income..."

Shashi Bhat (2006): "My second novel, The Most Precious Substance on Earth, came out with Grand Central/Hachette this summer..."

Scott Mooney (2011): "While on campus and taking creative writing courses in the English department, I began writing my first novel, Pricked..."

Reader question:

What's your favorite Cornell memory?

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