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English Newsletter Archive

Winter 2007

  • Letter from the Chair
    by Jahan Ramazani
    The English Department on the move
    Posted 12/04/07

  • 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
    Posted 12/04/07

  • A Decade at (the) Meridian
    by Georgia Chaconas
    Meridian, the graduate student journal produced in the English department, celebrates ten years of publication
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Remembering Richard Rorty
    by Stephen Metcalf (Slate)
    Colleagues and friends remember the American philosopher and former member of the English department
    Posted 12/04/07

  • 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
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Preserving History
    by Tim Arnold (U.Va. Media Relations)
    Chuck Perdue preserves, documents American folk culture from the inside
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Charles Wright Wins Poetry Prize
    by Matt Kelly (U.Va. Media Relations)
    Poet’s “Scar Tissue” shares the seventh annual Griffin Poetry Prize
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Faculty news
    Some of the things we’ve been up to
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Graduate student news
    Job placements, essays accepted, awards and honors accrued lately by our current graduate students
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Alumni news
    Former majors bring us up to date
    Posted 12/04/07

  • Upcoming events
    A peek at the Department’s next few months
    Posted 12/04/07

Spring 2007

  • Letter from the Chair
    by Jahan Ramazani
    Chair Jahan Ramazani reflects from Oxford on the globalization of literature in English
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Crossing Cultures
    by Erin Grams
    New faculty member Mrinalini Chakravorty expands the Department’s course offerings and research to new worlds of writing in English
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Between Two Covers
    by Gabriel Haley
    Faculty members muse on the work of assembling anthologies
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Where has the English Major Taken You?
    Peg Willingham (1985) and Rebecca Jesada (2003) describe their wide-ranging postgraduate careers
    Posted 06/06/07

  • “Twins”
    by Debra Nystrom
    Associate Professor of creative writing Debra Nystrom’s poem was published in the online magazine Slate.
    Posted 06/06/07

  • The Last Linotype Book in America?
    by David Vander Meulen
    Studies in Bibliography’s current issue may be the last book ever produced by this venerable printing method
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Superfan
    by Cinda Ewing
    J. Wood gets ‘Lost’ all the time, and he has a book to prove it. He closely examines how and why the TV show manages to so thoroughly mesmerize its audience.
    Posted 04/26/07

  • Looking Back — and Forward
    by Gabriel Haley
    Retiring from teaching, Hoyt Duggan reflects on his 38 years in the Department of English, and looks ahead to full-time research on the Piers Plowman Archive
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Going Places
    by Elizabeth Fowler
    The “Job Coach” for the Department’s graduate students celebrates the year’s many success stories
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Faculty news
    Latest, news, notes, and accomplishments
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Graduate student news
    Essays accepted, awards and honors accrued lately by our current graduate students.
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Undergraduate news
    This year's awards and honors earned by our English majors.
    Posted 06/06/07

  • Alumni news
    Former majors bring us up to date
    Posted 06/06/07

Winter 2006

  • Letter from the Chair
    by Jahan Ramazani
    Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shannon Professor and Chair, writes on the state of things in the Department of English.
    Posted 12/14/06

  • ‘This I Believe’
    by Anne Bromley
    Gregory Orr, professor of creative writing, read a personal essay as part of the National Public Radio series on Feb. 20, 2006.
    Posted 02/22/06

  • A Grounds for Writers: Teaching the Greats We’ve Asked to Stay
    by Richard Gibson
    Graduate student Richard Gibson describes his undergraduate class.
    Posted 12/14/06

  • Art & poetry in motion
    by Amber Davis
    Project puts student work on UTS buses.
    Posted 11/15/06

  • Robert Frost’s ‘War Thoughts at Home’ Discovered
    by Robert Stilling (The Virginia Quarterly Review)
    Rob Stilling, a graduate student in our department, describes finding a new poem by Robert Frost.
    Posted 12/16/06

  • In Memoriam: Robert Kellogg
    by Gordon Braden
    Longtime member of the English department and former Dean of the College Robert Kellogg died in 2004. Here is Gordon Braden’s memorial resolution.
    Posted 12/14/06

  • Remembrances by Majors Past
    Former English majors reflect on how being an English major impacted their lives and careers.
    Posted 12/14/06

  • Faculty news
    Some of the things we’ve been up to.
    Posted 12/14/06

  • Graduate student news
    Job placements, essays accepted, awards and honors accrued lately by our current graduate students.
    Posted 12/14/06

  • Alumni news
    Former majors bring us up to date.
    Posted 12/14/06