The English Department offers a full array of courses in British and American literature, as well as other literatures in English. We also offer courses in creative writing, journalism, film, theater, and new media. The department encourages interdisciplinary study and provides an environment that fosters intimate and interactive learning and teaching. There are extensive opportunities for undergraduates to pursue internships and independent research. The department offers an English major with separate tracks in literature, creative writing, theater, and language, media, and communication, along with minors in English literature, writing (journalism or creative writing), and theater. Our internationally recognized graduate program offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, and our alums have gone on to academic careers in some of the nation's most respected colleges and universities. The department sponsors an annual reading series featuring world-renowned poets and fiction writers, as well as numerous distinguished outside speakers. It also regularly hosts conferences, workshops, and symposia on a wide variety of subjects of scholarly and general interest. >>>
Tuesday, March 23, 5:00 p.m.
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Twelfth Annual One-Act New Play Festival
March 17-20
Todd Theatre
Death and Representation: A One-Day Conference
Friday, March 26
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Contact Jason Middleton at jmiddle2@mail.rochester.edu with any questions.
Click here for a conference schedule. >>>
Symposium on the Political Memoir
Thursday, April 1, and Friday, April 2
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
Click on the image above for a PDF version of the conference poster. Further information is available at the Humanities Project website.
The University of Rochester now offers an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Literary Translation Studies. For details on this new program, visit http://www.rochester.edu/college/translation/.
Joanna Scott’s review "Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee" appeared in the February 15 issue of The Nation. Click here for the full article. >>>
Jennie Lightweis-Goff (Rochester Ph.D. 2009) won the Dissertation/First Book Prize in African-American Studies from the State University of New York Press for “Blood at the Root”: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus. Her dissertation will be published as a book in the coming year.
The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies was held October 22-25 at the University of Rochester. The conference, which included a screening of a new 35mm print of Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922) at George Eastman house, was featured recently in the New York Times.
The 2008 Lillian Fairchild Award has been presented to Anne Panning for her book Super America: Stories and a Novella.
Tom Hahn was cited in a recent BBC News Magazine article about Robin Hood:
"‘Robin Hood’s appeal arises from primal desires for justice and equity,’ [Hahn] says. ‘And though medieval in origins, this is a fantasy broad and deep enough to possess the imaginations of people in almost all times and places.’"
Joanna Scott’s new novel, Follow Me, is featured in the April 19 issue of The New York Times Book Review. >>>
Stephanie Li’s Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African-American Women won the First Book Prize in African American Studies from the State University of New York Press and will be published in the coming year.
