Author: Darrend Brown

  Every May, The English Department awards the Hugh and Velma Richmond Prize for the best essay of the year on Shakespeare by a non-senior English major. Below is the winner for the 2015-2016 academic year, an essay written by Miyako Singer for Professor David Marno’s Fall 2015 Shakespeare 117S course. The Dark Side of the Moon: Dew and the Breakdown of Illusion...

Tomorrow, English Department students, faculty, and alumni will crowd into the Maude Fife Room on the third floor of Wheeler Hall for the annual Charles Mills Gayley lecture, the department’s highest honor. The 2016 lecture, “Historicism: a Eulogy,” will be given by Professor Steven Justice and will begin at 7:00pm.  On the eve of this occasion, we thought we would look to...

Professor Lyn Hejinian released her book of poetry, The Unfollowing, in early April 2016; the work is intended as a set of elegies, both personal and political.  The work flirts with structure and logic; all 77 of the book’s poems are fourteen lines each, evoking the sonnet – a comparison that Hejinian states, “wouldn’t be inaccurate-or it would be entirely so.” ...

Each semester, the English Department hosts dozens of literary events, from fiction reading to critical lectures, and from scholars and writers all over the world. Spring 2016 is no exception to this, and will be hosting a particularly high number of literary readings.  Below you’ll find a few highlights from our events calendar this semester; for a complete listing of...

The English Department is proud to offer over 100 courses to both graduate and undergraduate students this semester. A quarter of the classes offered this semester are those are designed specifically to meet the University wide Reading and Composition requirement – these course are typically taught by grad students and are taken by Freshman or Sophomore students both inside and...