George Hutchinson
The Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture and the George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
American Studies Program, John S. Knight Institute, Literatures in English
New York Times critic at large wins 2020-21 Nathan Award
Maya Phillips, a critic at large for The New York Times, has been named winner of the 2020-21 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award committee comprises the heads of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale Universities.
Books to Inspire: Helena Viramontes
Juan Rulfo: Pedro ParamoGabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of CholeraJames Joyce: The DublinersMaxine Hong Kingston: Maxine Hong KingstonToni Morrison: Beloved Marilynn Robinson: Housekeeping
Books to Inspire: Stephanie Vaughn
Jane Austen: EmmaDonald Barthelme: AmateursGiuseppe Gioachino Belli: Sonnetti/Sonnets, tr. Miller WilliamsLucia Berlin: A Manual for Cleaning WomenElizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems: 1927-1979Raymond Carver: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?Willia Cather: My ÁntoniaWilliam Faulkner: Absalom! Absalom!Denis Johnson: Jesus' SonJamaica...
Books to Inspire: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
The Bible/KJVLucille Clifton: The Collected PoemsJune Jordan: Directed by DesireGwendolyn Brooks: BlacksZora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching GodToni Morrison: SulaWilliam Shakespeare: Complete WorksOctavia Butler: KindredOctavia Butler: Parable of the TalentsElizabeth Alexander: American SublimeCharlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre...
Books to Inspire: Joanie Mackowski
GilgameshGenesisJohn Milton: Paradise LostMarianne MooreH.D. TrilogyAdrienne Rich: Of Women Born, poems & essaysHerman Melville: Moby Dick, Benito CerenoNathaniel Hawthorne: Scarlet LetterWilla Cather: Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilliam Faulkner: As I Lay DyingZora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching GodRalph Ellison: The...
Books to Inspire: J. Robert Lennon
Alice Munro: any & allJorge Luis Borges: Collected FictionsChris Ware: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on EarthFlannery O'Connor: Collected Stories &The Habit of BeingColson Whitehead: The IntuitionistRuth Rendell: Road RageLydia Davis: Collected StoriesJeff VanderMeer: Area X trilogyJames Joyce: UlyssesMarilynne Robinson:...
Books to Inspire: Ishion Hutchinson
KJV/Tyndale BibleThe IliadRobert Louis Stevenson: Treasure IslandGwendolyn Brooks: Annie AllenWilliam Shakespeare: The TempestBliss Carman: Songs of the Sea ChildrenJames Baldwin: Just Above My HeadJohn Milton: Paradise LostGabriel García Márquez: The Autumn of the PatriarchAlejo Carpentier: The Kingdom of this WorldGertrude...
Ellis Hanson
Professor
Comparative Literature, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program, Literatures in English
Pulitzer Prize-winning alumna explores the human stories behind global migration
L.A. Times reporter Molly O’Toole ’09 is currently tracing a 9,000-mile route to the U.S.’s southern border.
Scholarship honors eminent professor and 'university citizen'
With contributions from his family, former students and colleagues, the fund honoring Isaac Kramnick will support students beginning this fall.
Sianne Ngai to give Culler lecture on inhabiting error
Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago, will explore this question wrong ways of thinking in this Society for the Humanities event March 9.
Gellman Lecture to Feature Brent Hayes Edwards, 3/17
The Department of Literatures in English presents The Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature featuring Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University). "Clipping in & Out of the Trenches: Black Radicalism and the Archive," Thursday, March 17, 2022 5:00 p.m.