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Kirsten Jorgenson featured in the latest edition of OmniVerse!
Apr 2, 2014

Congratulations to Kirsten Jorgenson on being featured in the latest edition of OmniVerse! A regular feature of the online literary journal is an inte...

Kathryn Kirkpatrick to present "Worlding the Climate Crisis Poem" at Environmental Humanities Symposium, April 4
Apr 2, 2014

The Humanities Council is sponsoring an all-day Environmental Humanities Symposium this Friday (April 4). There will be three invited keynotes and a f...

Amanda Finn is the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award!
Apr 2, 2014

Congratulations to Amanda Finn, the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award! Graduate student award recipients will be re...

Congratulations to Heather Custer, who is being inducted into the Cratis Williams Society for Outstanding Graduate Students.
Mar 26, 2014

Congratulations to Heather Custer, who is being inducted into the Cratis Williams Society for Outstanding Graduate Students. Each year the top 1-2% of...

Poetry submissions for the $3300 2014-15 Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship in Creative Writing
Feb 27, 2014

Poetry submissions for the $3300 2014-15 Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship in Creative Writing will be accepted in the English Office from Tues...

Sherry Alusow Hart, President of the Tennessee Philological Association, to present her presidential address, "'These fragments I shore against my ruins': William Blake and Popular Culture," at the annual meeting in Nashville
Feb 18, 2014

Congratulations to Sherry Alusow Hart, President of the Tennessee Philological Association, who will offer her presidential address, "'These fragments...

Alison Gulley's book The Displacement of the Body in AElfric's Virgin Martyr Lives has been published by Ashgate
Jan 29, 2014

Alison Gulley's book The Displacement of the Body in AElfric's Virgin Martyr Lives is hot off the press from Ashgate: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781...

Joseph Bathanti honored as the first scholar-in-residence at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh
Jan 29, 2014

Congratulations to Joseph Bathanti on being honored as the first scholar-in-residence at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh! If you h...

Nathan Hauke has published his first book, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes.
Jan 8, 2014

Congratulations to Nathan Hauke on the publication of his first book, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes! The book is published by Publication Studio, ...

M.A. student, Fran Thielman, has won the prestigious Victorian Institute's Patrick O. Scott award!
Dec 22, 2013

M.A. student, Fran Thielman, has won the prestigious Victorian Institute's Patrick O. Scott award for the best graduate student paper presented at the...