Welcome to the Fall Semester!

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, the most recent book by Associate Professor of English Robert McRuer, has been honored as a nominee for a 2007 Lamba Literary Foundation Award. The leading organization for LGBT literature, the Lambda Literary Foundation has been running its awards program for nearly twenty years. The foundation’s mission…

T. S. Eliot grabs the open mic to read the swingin’est “Waste Land” ever Lenthall House (606 21st Street, b/t F&G)  Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.  Sign up for a slot (5 mins.) on the sheet in the English department office (Rome 760).  Poets, prose writers, dramatists, screenwriters all welcome!…

CANCELLATION The talk by poet and critic Adam Kirsch has been cancelled for this evening because of the weather. The talk was to have been in the Marvin Center Auditorium at 7 pm. We hope to reschedule him later in the semester; look to this blog for more information. Share on FacebookTweet

Don’t miss your chance to study the history of the book at the Folger. Applications due March 10. More information here. Share on FacebookTweet

We are honored to have Sarah Werner of the Folger Shakespeare Library teaching a seminar for us this coming spring. Though the seminar is offered at the graduate level, we are opening five spots in the class to undergraduate English majors who are interested in the subject and who would like to do some advanced…

Former Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence Tayari Jones — one of the most beloved teachers ever to fill that position — maintains a lively blog. Recently she wrote about one of our own undergraduate English majors, Kirk Larsen, describing him as “one of my genius undergraduates.” If you follow that link, you will see…