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The Harvard University Department of English introduces students to the full breadth of English language literature, from 8th Century to current day.
Cambridge, MA
Joined December 2010
MLA's Matei Calinescu Prize was awarded to Professor Glenda Carpio for Migrant Aesthetics! Read the press release here:
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The Department of English seeks to appoint a senior lecturer on fiction. For more information and to apply, please see the following posting. Please feel free to share with any contacts who may be interested.
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Our next English Debates, "Should you Become a Literary Bot?" with Laura Kipnis and Claire Messud, will take place on October 15 at 5PM in the Thompson Room. This event is open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there! Event details here: https://t.co/P1ipYBpIRg
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Professor Martin Puchner was one of five writers on the shortlist for the Christian Gauss Award, which celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. Check out the full list here:
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The 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Short List
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The A.R.T.'s Romeo and Juliet was also included on WBUR's list of 14 theater productions to see this fall. You can view the full list here: https://t.co/40B6QkFv4D
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Former English PhD student Garth Greenwell's new novel, Small Rain, was included on The New York Times' list of 24 Works of Fiction and Poetry to Read This Fall:
nytimes.com
Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer.
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Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize! Read more here: https://t.co/61J5zmBA7O
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Professor Anna Wilson wrote on adaptations of The Great Gatsby for the Harvard Gazette as the new musical Gatsby (with lyrics and music co-penned by Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine) opens at the Boston A.R.T. The article can be accessed here: https://t.co/Mi1JVI5vfz
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Professors @martin_puchner and Tracy K. Smith were among 14 faculty members who were named Cabot Fellows. Congratulations, Martin and Tracy! Read more here:
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Fourteen professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their contributions to the advancement of...
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The Paris Review covered the life and work of Professor Elaine Scarry. You can view the interview here:
theparisreview.org
“I see my writing on imagination and on war as continuous. Or rather, the two subjects are essentially locked in combat.”
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Grateful for this review of my new book The Blue Period in The Boston Globe https://t.co/q45vDxzLUW
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In "The Blue Period," Harvard's Jesse McCarthy shines a new light on midcentury Black authors.
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Kudos to this year's @HarvardMedieval PhD Thesis Prize winners, Dr. Joseph Shack ('The Origins, Lives & Afterlives of Early English and Welsh Gnomic Poetry') & Dr. Henry Gruber ('Wars & Rumors of War: Archeology, Violence & the End of Roman Spain')! @English_Harvard @UNChistory
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Harvard's Latinx Studies Working Group is holding a poetry reading with Puerto Rican poet and Professor of English at UMass Amherst, Martín Espada, tomorrow at 5pm in the Thompson Room!
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. spoke with The Wall Street Journal about "his family tree, giving up on med school and buying the house his mother once cleaned." Read the full article here:
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The “Finding Your Roots” host talks about his family tree, giving up on med school and buying the house his mother once cleaned.
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Professors Glenda Carpio, Stephanie Burt, Gordon Teskey, and former graduate student Christopher Spaide, PhD ’19, remember Helen Vendler in the following piece by The Harvard Gazette.
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Beyond her passion for her work, they say, she was creative and engaged teacher, thoughtful adviser and mentor, trusted friend
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Helen Vendler died last week. Her book "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets" is just completely indispensable. Buy it, read it, remember her mind.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Emerita. As we remember her life and legacy, we would like to share a portrait of her commissioned by Magdalene College Cambridge, where she was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1996.
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This is completely glorious @nathanheller—she would have adored every bit of it. The ending is unforgettable. Thank you @NewYorker Helen Vendler’s Generous Mind | The New Yorker
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The professor and critic will be remembered for her brilliant books, but teaching brought her genius to the fore.
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on what would have been Helen Vendler’s 91st birthday, I’ve uploaded videos of two make-up lectures she recorded in 2016 for her course Poems, Poetry, Poetry (I was a grad student TA along with @scriblerian and Michael Allen):
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Jamaica Kincaid, Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence, has won the St. Louis Literary Award. Read more here: https://t.co/T5OdUZmAdj
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