Winter 2007

Letter from the Chair
by Jahan Ramazani
The English Department on the move

Students and Faculty Set Sail
by Georgia Chaconas
Anna Brickhouse recounts her experience on the inaugural voyage of the University’s new Semester at Sea program

A Decade at (the) Meridian
by Georgia Chaconas
Meridian, the graduate student journal produced in the English department, celebrates ten years of publication

Remembering Richard Rorty
by Stephen Metcalf (Slate)
Colleagues and friends remember the American philosopher and former member of the English department

The First Book
by Maura Singleton (The University of Virginia Magazine)
Five recent graduates of the English Department’s MFA program talk about the process of getting their first book published

Preserving History
by Tim Arnold (U.Va. Media Relations)
Chuck Perdue preserves, documents American folk culture from the inside

Charles Wright Wins Poetry Prize
by Matt Kelly (U.Va. Media Relations)
Poet’s “Scar Tissue” shares the seventh annual Griffin Poetry Prize

Faculty news
Some of the things we’ve been up to

Graduate student news
Job placements, essays accepted, awards and honors accrued lately by our current graduate students

Alumni news
Former majors bring us up to date

Upcoming events
A peek at the Department’s next few months