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There are many ways in which your gift contributes to the continued success of the English Department. Gifts from Giving Day 2021 were instrumental in furthering faculty development, creating a research travel grant for MFA students, providing emergency funds for PhD students, and in supporting novel teaching ideas for undergraduate students.
Poet, translator, and essayist Ilya Kaminsky will read poems, discuss his collections “Dancing in Odessa” and “Deaf Republic,” and speak about his new work on March 24.
Jonathan Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University is the speaker.
From a nanoscale “brobot” flexing its muscles to a discussion of the artistry of scientific images, participants at a March 9 event got an up-close look at how quantum science and nanotechnology are shaping our lives.
James John Professor of Medieval Studies
Comparative Literature, Literatures in English, Medieval Studies Program
Professor
American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program, Literatures in English, Performing and Media Arts
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These professorships continue the College’s priority to recognize faculty excellence and accomplishments.
M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, poet and theorist Fred Moten will deliver a lecture on radical Black politics and the poetry of Amiri Baraka.
Senior Lecturer, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines and English
John S. Knight Institute, Literatures in English
Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, Comparative Literature, Literatures in English
Associate Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, Comparative Literature, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, French Studies Program, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program, Literatures in English, Performing and Media Arts
A team from Literatures in English and partner organizations is creating an inclusive, welcoming, anti-racist youth media network thanks to a grant from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
The event is part of the Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series for the Creative Writing Program
“Severance” by ‘brilliant and exciting new writer” Ling Ma, MFA ’15, has received numerous awards.
Professor
Associate Chair
Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Literatures in English
John Wendell Anderson Professor of English
Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Literatures in English
Alejandro L. Madrid, professor and chair of music, and Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of literatures in English, were honored as fellows.
