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. >>>
12 Nov 2008, 8:00 pm
Welles-Brown Room
Rush Rhees Library
Edward Hirsch's first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers, was published in 1981 and went on to receive the Lavan Younger Poets Award from The Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. His second collection, Wild Gratitude (1986), received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Since then, he has published four books of poems, most recently Lay Back the Darkness (2003); On Love (1998); Earthly Measures (1994); and The Night Parade (1989).
Hirsch has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He has been a professor of English at Wayne State University and the University of Houston. Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. >>>
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). >>>
You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936 and played for 837 performances.
Opens:
Thursday, October 16 at 8:00 p.m.
Runs:
Thursday—Saturday, October 16-18 at 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday—Saturday, October 22-25 at 8:00 p.m.
Matinees:
Saturday & Sunday, October 18 and 19 at 3:00 p.m.
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