Summer Milstein Program bridges tech and humanities virtually
The program’s goal was to help students navigate the new pandemic world by providing them with intellectual frameworks and tools.
Applications open for Klarman fellowships
The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
My Country Is Under Attack
Belarusians took to the streets this week to reclaim their dignity, writes Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of English, in an op-ed in the New York Times. The government of Belarus, she says, has responded with brutal violence.
Harris VP pick emblematic of surge in black women leaders
Presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected Senator Kamala Harris as running mate and vice-presidential candidate, the first black and South Asian woman to serve on the ticket as a candidate for vice president.
English professor honored for book on black politics
Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book, “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.” The award, given by the Bibliographical Society of America, honors research in the bibliography of American literature and history. The award carries a prize of $2,000 and a year’s membership in the organization.
Literary scholar Jonathan Culler elected to British Academy
Literary scholar Jonathan D. Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected to membership in the British Academy.
New book echoes conference on classics, media theory
A new edited volume, “Classics and Media Theory,” features participants from a Cornell media studies conference exploring the interactions between media and antiquity.
From Kenya to Cornell, writer Mukoma ranges across genres
Mukoma Wa Ngugi channeled his fascination with Ethiopian "Tizita" songs into his fourth novel, “Unbury Our Dead With Song,” which will be published Sept. 21.
Schwarz on Joyce's "Ulysses"
"Reading and Teaching Ulysses as a Transformative Life Experience: 'And Yes she said'"
"Liberate your imagination."
Dagmawi Woubshet
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ethiopia, 1989: the Communist regime was beginning to crumble; schools were shut down. That proved the last straw for the parents of Dagmawi Woubshet, who deeply valued education.
Hutchinson on Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
"The Search for a Faun"My poem is called, “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.” A famous title I am sure most of you will recognize. The fame is one of the reasons why I am self-conscious about what I am about to do in this reflection, which partly amounts to betraying the naïveté of my youth.
Elizabeth McKenzie Klein : 'This institution encouraged me to pursue my passions – even if they seemed somewhat contradictory'
Elizabeth McKenzie Klein
English (with a pre-med curriculum)
McLean, VA
Why did you choose Cornell?
Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS
Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.
Hidden Cornell treasures to be digitized
Some hidden Cornell treasures soon will be available to scholars around the world, thanks to the Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Grants Program for Digital Collections, which this year awarded four grants.
M.H. Abrams memorial set for Sept. 12
The Cornell University Department of English will hold a memorial celebration for M.H. Abrams, the Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, in Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12. The celebration is free and open to the public.Abrams, a towering figure in literary and cultural studies, died at the age of 102 on April 21, 2015.
M.H. Abrams remembered with verse, music, stories
A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. “Mike” Abrams cherished – poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.
Creative writing professor honored with lecture series
A new lecture series at California State University Long Beach that brings ethnic U.S. writers to campus will be named after Helena Viramontes, professor and director of creative writing in Cornell’s Department of English.
Gift frees MFA students to write during the summer
A gift from Rona and David Picket ’84 helps our creative writing students focus on their work during summer break.
Professor Explores Western Lyrical Tradition at Lecture
Prof. Jonathan Culler, English and comparative literature, spoke Wednesday about his new book The Theory of the Lyric as part of Cornell University Library’s Chats in the Stacks book talk program.
'Annie' director Will Gluck shares career advice
The director shared what it's really like to work in Hollywood.
Misreading Frost, rethinking the lyric in new poetry books
American poet Robert Frost was not above toying with his friends, or his readers. And one of his best-known works may be his grandest joke of all, as detailed in a new book by David Orr, “The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong” (Penguin).
McClane looks at friendship in Phi Beta Kappa lecture
Kenneth A. McClane ’73, this year's Phi Beta Kappa lecturer, recounted his family’s role in the Civil Rights movement.
Morgan on Harper Lee: 'a telling lesson in novel writing'
“Fiction can transform a particular history into art of universal significance,” author and Kappa Alpha Professor of English Robert Morgan said Nov. 19 in “History and Fiction: The Growth of an Artist – Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’,” a talk in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Emeritus professor and alum Edgar Rosenberg dies at 90
Edgar Rosenberg ’49, MA ‘50, Professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, died on December 19 in Cayuga Heights at the age of 90.