News and Events
Upcoming Events
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September 15-17: English department hosts Vcologies Conference
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August 3, 7:00 p.m.: English department gathering at Miller Outdoor Theatre Shakespeare Festival performance of Twelfth Night
Faculty, Students, and Alumni In the News
- Creative Writing PhD student Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s novel The House of Stone forthcoming with W.W. Norton in the USA and Atlantic Books in the United Kingdom
- Professor Michael Snediker wins Fordham University Press Poets Out Loud prize for The New York Editions
- Literature PhD student Zachary Turpin discovers lost Walt Whitman novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography
- Professor Cedric Tolliver receives American Comparative Literature Association Helen Tartar Book Subvention Award
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English department faculty receive grant from Hobby Center for Public Policy for project titled, “Digital and Physical Inroads to Sustaining Scholarly-Community Rapport: Toward a Research Collective on Writing, Community, and Global Culture"
- Professor Jennifer Wingard writes about applies expertise in rhetoric to presidential politics
- Professor Lynn Voskuil Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for “Horticulture and Imperialism: The Garden Spaces of the British Empire, 1789-1914"
English Department Publications:
Forum: The Newsletter of the UH Department of English
Lit-Up