Department of English News

Terry Eagleton Appointed Distinguished Visitor

Literary scholar and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton has been appointed Excellence in English Distinguished Visitor in the Department of English beginning in the fall of 2009. He will be in residence for three weeks of each semester over the next five years. This fall he will lead a one-credit graduate seminar on "Problems of Interpretation" and deliver a public lecture. Read more...

Fellowships and Grants

The Department of English congratulates the following members of the faculty:

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation:

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007-08 for “Medieval Reading Circles and the Rise of English Literature in England and Anglo-Ireland.”

Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities:

Mary Burgess: NEH Fellowship, 2007-08 for "British Modernism and the Four Nations."

Margaret Doody: NEH Fellowship, 2007 for "The Mystics' Enlightenment: Pico della Mirandola, Paracelsus and Jakob Boehme."

Thomas N. Hall: NEH Collaborative Research Program--Scholarly Editions, 2007-08 for "A Digital Edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 25" ($100,000).

National Humanities Center Fellowships:

Maud Ellmann has been awarded an "ASC Fellowship" for 2007-08 to participate in the NHC interdisciplinary project on "Autonomy, Singularity, and Creativity." Her project is "Modernist Returns: Circulation in Freud, James, Woolf, and Joyce."

John Wilkinson has been awarded the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellowship for 2007-08 for "Reckitt's Blue: A project for autonomous lyric against Western tradition." The writing will entail studies in aesthetics and in Papua New Guinean material culture.

Mary Burgess: National Humanities Center 2007 Summer Institute in Literary Studies, "Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes."

Stanford Humanities Center:

Gerald Bruns has been awarded the Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellowship for "Singular Poetries: The Writings of Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian."

Honors and Awards

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: Kerby-Fulton's Books Under Suspicion has been awarded this year's John Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies.

William O'Rourke: O’Rourke’s book On Having A Heart Attack is a finalist for ForeWord magazine's "Book of the Year" in the "Health" category. Competition is limited to independent and academic presses' publications. The winners winners will be announced during an event at Book Expo of America in New York City on June 1-3. (Book Expo of America is the largest trade show for the book industry in the U.S. Foreword magazine generates good press for the winners.)

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