Spring 2008 Graduation Ceremony Information
Fall 2008 course schedules:
graduate courses
undergraduate courses
Welcome to the Department of English!
Three Department Members Recognized with Tanner Awards for Excellence in Teaching!
Professor Jane Thrailkill and graduate students Emily Brewer and Rachelle Gold were each recognized for their dedication to undergraduate instruction. Learn more about the Tanner Award.Upcoming Events in the Department of English and Comparative Literature:
- Kevin Eubanks will deliver a lecture on "Authenticity and the Jargon of History in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus" on April 14th at 4:30 p.m. in Donovan Lounge, sponsored by the Furst Forum in Comparative Literature
- Professor Nancy Armstrong's lecture "Gender Must Be Defended," the final talk in the English Department Speakers' Series, will be held in in Donovan Lounge in Greenlaw Hall at 5-6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15. Her graduate roundtable is at 3-4 p.m. the same day, also in Donovan.
- Professor Ann Thompson of King's College, London, will visit the Department of English and Comparative Literature on Tuesday, April 22 at 5:00 PM in Donovan Lounge to discuss her current work. The essay under consideration is entitled, "Making Mistakes: Shakespeare, Metonymy, and Hamlet," co-written by Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson. Professor Thompson has graciously allowed this paper to be made available online. It will be published in a festschrift for the distinguished German Shakespeare scholar Dieter Mehl, entitled Shakespeare Without Boundaries.