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Summer Reads 2023: Gene Jarrett
June 30, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

 Gene Jarrett, dean of the faculty and the William S. Tod Professor of English, shares what’s on his summer reading list.

William Howarth, eminent Thoreau scholar, pioneer in the environmental humanities and ‘remarkable mentor,’ dies at 82
June 20, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

Howarth served on Princeton’s faculty for 51 years. He was among the cofounders of the Princeton Environmental Institute (now High Meadows Environmental Institute).

English celebrates Class Day 2023
June 6, 2023

On Monday, May 29, 2023 at 1:30 p.m., the Department of English celebrated the 31 graduates of the Class of 2023 who majored in English.

Tamsen Wolff recognized for outstanding teaching
May 30, 2023
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Written by Denise Valenti, Office of Communications

Wolff is one of four Princeton University faculty members who received President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies Tuesday, May 30.

Kinohi Nishikawa honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students
May 18, 2023
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Written by Jennifer Altmann for the Office of Communications

Nishikawa, associate professor of English and African American studies, is one of four faculty members named recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate School.

English's Jeewon Yoo is one of ten graduate students honored for excellence in teaching
May 18, 2023
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Written by Jennifer Altmann for the Office of Communications

Yoo, recognized with the Collaborative Teaching Initiative (CTI) Graduate Teaching Award, served as the lead instructor for “Art of Comedy” and as an AI for “Sally Rooney and Her Contemporaries.”

An English major bound for med school? There’s a thesis topic for that.
May 18, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

Rachel Sturley came to Princeton with a curiosity about biology and a love for literature that started, respectively, in the tide pools of coastal Massachusetts and the New York subway.

2023 A. Scott Berg winners announced
May 4, 2023

Each year the Department of English’s undergraduate faculty select from a pool of rising juniors and seniors and award the A. Scott Berg Fellowship, a scholarship endowed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg `71 h.c. '03.

2023 Clio Hall Award recipient Meredith Martin to be honored at GradFUTURES Forum
April 14, 2023

Meredith Martin is the Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton which started under her leadership in 2014. She is one of the strongest advocates for GradFUTURES and for diverse careers for graduate students, and frequently partners with GradFUTURES and other campus…