News
Prof. Anne Cheng embraces inclusion - not assumptions - at King Day celebration
Posted January 22, 2013
Professor of English and African American studies Anne Cheng honored the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Faculty Member Robert Sandberg directs Senior Thesis Production
Posted January 8, 2013
The Program in Theater will present the gritty psychological crime drama, A Steady Rain, by Keith Huff on January 10, 11, 12 and 13 at 8 p.m.
Prof. Michael Wood appears on the BBC radio series, "The Essay"
Posted January 8, 2013
Professor Michael G Wood of Princeton University explores the publication of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way
Intersections: "Building Along the Borders" Roundtable
Posted December 11, 2012
"Intersections" working group's first event: “Building Along the Borders”: Intersectionality & Interdisciplinary Studies in English
English Major Stephanie Tam wins Sachs Prize
Posted December 6, 2012
Stephanie Tam (Class of 2013) has been named one of the two recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the highest awards given to Princeton undergraduates.
Prof. Russ Leo wins Milton Society award
Posted December 6, 2012
Assistant Professor, Russ Leo's article "Milton's Aristotelian Experiments: Tragedy, Lustratio, and 'Secret refreshings' in Samson Agonistes" (from the 2011 Milton Studies) is one of the two co-winners for the Milton Society's annual James Holly Hanford Award for a distinguished essay on Milton.
Simon Gikandi to Receive MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize
Posted December 4, 2012
New York, NY – 4 December 2012 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its forty-third annual James Russell Lowell Prize to Simon Gikandi, of Princeton University, for his book Slavery and the Culture of Taste
New Spring Course: ENG 374 - Life Writing: The Art of Biography
Posted December 4, 2012
A seminar on great (and highly readable) biographies and autobiographies
Deborah Nord, "Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall"
Posted December 3, 2012
Faculty Member, Deborah Nord's article "Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall" will appear in a book edited by Jonathan Conlin later this month.
New Spring Course: ENG 405 - Contemporary Poetry
Posted December 3, 2012
This seminar focuses on poetry books published in 2012 and 2013.
New Spring Course: ENG 223 - Literature & Food
Posted December 3, 2012
This course explores both the joyful and the dark sides of eating and traces how “taste” informs the various ways in which we ingest the world.
18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium -- "How To Do Things with Books"
Posted December 3, 2012
Leah Price , Department of English Harvard University
New Spring Course: ENG 305 - Contemporary Literary Theory
Posted December 3, 2012
Survey of central debates in cultural and literary studies focusing on texts in contemporary theory that formulate an understanding of the self. Course follows shifts between structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism.
History of a Book Talk: "The Annotated Frankenstein"
Posted November 30, 2012
POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE
Roy Scranton participates in University Veteran's Day Panel
Posted November 16, 2012
Daily Princetonian article on the discussion at a recent Veteran's Day panel.
Michael Gamer talk: "Re-collection's Intranquility"
Posted November 16, 2012
Michael Gamer, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, presented a talk entitled "Re-collection's Intranquility" to our Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Colloquium on Wednesday, November 28 at 4:30 p.m. in 40 McCosh Hall.
Elaine Showalter receives the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Posted November 8, 2012
Elaine Showalter received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin.
Gleason's "Sites Unseen" chosen as runner-up for John Hope Franklin prize
Posted November 6, 2012
Bill Gleason's "Sites Unseen" has been chosen by American Studies Association as one of three runners-up for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for best book in American Studies in 2011.
Elaine Showalter receives honorary degree from St. Andrews
Posted November 6, 2012
Emeritus Professor, Elaine Showalter, recently received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St. Andrews. Read the laureation address on the St. Andrews website.
Students reflect on UCL Junior Seminar 2012
Posted October 26, 2012
Life After Study Abroad: Students reflect on UCL Junior Seminar 2012.
Read the story in the Daily Princetonian here.
Read the web story on the Princeton University homepage: In London, contemporary British literature comes to life.