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  • Anne Cheng - President's Award for Distinguished Teaching

    Professor Anne Cheng recognized for outstanding teaching Congratulations to Professor Anne Cheng on receiving the Presisdent's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies Tuesday, May 24.

  • Jacqueline Campbell

    Jacqueline Campbell wins Graduate School Teaching Award Congratulations to Jacqueline Campbell, a 5th Year PhD student in the Department of English, has won the Princeton Graduate School’s 2022 Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and has been further recognized as the best Assistant in Instruction in the Division of the Humanities.

  • Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)

    Arts in the Invisible City This team-taught course was led by D. Vance Smith, professor of English, and Nyssa Chow, an oral historian and lecturer in theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Humanities Council. It was supported by the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council. Cross-listed in English, humanistic studies, theater and urban studies, the course is also part of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).

  • Prof. Anne Cheng's ENG 571: The Human Ornament visits Art Museum Study Room Study Room “ENG 571: The Human Ornament,” which is interested in the confusion between persons and things, was able to go to the Art Museum’s off-site Study Room where they studied and were able to be in the same room with original artworks from contemporary artists such as Lorna Simpson, Hannah Wilke, Dennis Oppenheim, and Yeesookyung.

  • Prof. Josh Kotin's "Special Studies in Modernism: 1922" explore Princeton Library's Special Collections Joshua Kotin, associate professor in the Department of English, offers his class, “Special Studies in Modernism: 1922,” a chance to explore James Joyce’s work as well as contemporary publications from T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Claude McKay in consideration of their influence 100 years later. 

  • Co Winners from left to right: Zachary Sahin '23, Cassy James '23, Right Top: Co-Runner-up Priyanka Aiyer '23 and Right Bottom: Co-Runner-up Sierra Stern '24

    Four Undergraduates Awarded the A. Scott Berg Fellowship for Summer Study Each year the Department of English’s Undergraduate faculty select from a pool of rising junior and senior concentrators to determine the winner of the A. Scott Berg Fellowship, a scholarship endowed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg `71 h.c. '03.

Upcoming Events

Aug 15
Final Public Oral Exam--Isabel M. Lockhart
TBD 1: 00 PM
Sep 26
Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song
TBD 4: 30 PM to 6: 00 PM
Apr 29
It Was the Best Of Times: A conference for Deborah Nord
TBD 8: 00 AM
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