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. >>>
The International Theatre Program presents
Danton's Death
by Georg Buchner, translated and adapted by Robert Auletta
December 3-12
Todd Theater
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.
English 252: Theater in England will be conducted in London from Tuesday, December 29, 2009, through Saturday, January 9, 2010. Students should arrive in London no later than the evening of December 28. They may return on Sunday, January 10. We will see approximately 18 plays. We do not yet know what the full schedule of plays will be, but you can be certain that we will see the best of what’s available in the world's theater Mecca.
You may obtain the application form from the English department or Professor Peck. You need permission of the instructor to register. See Professor Russell Peck (275-0110 or 473-7354).
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.
Jason H. Middleton has been selected to receive the G. Graydon Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching awarded in honor of Professor Ralph Helmkamp. Professor Middleton will receive his award at the College commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17.
Morris Eaves spent several weeks in Paris where he was invited to advise the University of Paris on its Blake curriculum in connection with an exhibition of Blake's work, the largest ever mounted in France, at the Petit Palais, which opened April 2. >>>
John Michael's Identity and the Failure of America from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror has been nominated by the University of Minnesota Press for the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association and the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association. >>>
English Department faculty and programs win Goergen Teaching Awards for Artistry in Teaching (James Longenbach) and for Curricular Achievement in Undergraduate Education (The University of Rochester International Theatre Program, director Nigel Maister). >>>
