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English Awards Thirteen Undergraduates Department Prizes
July 13, 2022

Every year the Department of English opens the opportunity for the undergraduate community to participate in the department's prizes in English. This year's submissions spanned academic essays to short stories, individual poems to poetry collections,…

English Celebrates Class Day 2022
July 13, 2022

The Class Day 2022 celebration for the Department of English heralded a return to an in-person festivities. This year's celebration was held Monday, May 23, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. in McCosh 50.  

With over one hundred attendees present, including concentrators, students, faculty, and friends, the department celebrated our forty English…

Gene Jarrett takes us back to the Gilded Age in his new biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 28, 2022

Gene Jarrett, Princeton’s dean of the faculty and the William S. Tod Professor of English, has taught students about Paul Laurence Dunbar for two decades and published book articles and chapters on the popular and accomplished writer. But it wasn’t until 2008 that Jarrett decided to tackle a biography of Dunbar, who rose to prominence in the…

Department graduate, Lucy Dever '22 participates in Humanities Council podcast
June 14, 2022

In the first episode of this two-part series, host and producer Dexter Thomas, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and a postdoctoral research associate in the Humanities Council, speaks to Allie Mangel ’22 and Lucy Ellen Dever ’22 about their…

Congratulations to our 2022 Graduates!
May 26, 2022
Congratulations to the Class of 2022!
Anne Cheng recognized for outstanding teaching
May 25, 2022

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

Jacqueline Campbell wins Graduate School Teaching Award
May 19, 2022
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.
Arts in the Invisible City
May 9, 2022
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).
2022 Class Day Celebration
May 4, 2022

The Department of English at Princeton University warmly invites the Class of 2022, their parents, family, and friends to attend the

2022 Class Day Celebration

Monday, May 23, 2022  at 1:30 p.m. EDT 

McCosh Hall 50  with refreshments to follow in McCosh…