Diana Fuss, Simon Gikandi and four other Princeton professors talk about how the books on their shelves relate to their work and share what’s on their summer reading lists. We also have some movie recommendations.

English major, Emma Watkins, who graduated in June, combined her interests in folklore, feminist music theater and environmental studies to write a play about the mythical Welsh figure Rhiannon.

Each year during Reunions the English Department invites Princeton alums to join us for an hour of poetry and conversation.

Class of 2020 members (from left to right) Kenji Cataldo, Rasheeda Saka, Jaylin Lugardo, Oluwatoyin Edogun and Matthew Oakland are among the six Princeton students named as 2018 Mellon Mays fellows. Yousef Elzalabany is not pictured.

Alvin Kernan, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, professor of English, emeritus, and former dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, died May 17 in Skillman, New Jersey.

Seven students received their academic hoods in the Ph.D. hooding ceremony on Cannon Green.

Congratulations to Eduardo Cadava on receiving the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Tuesday's Commencement Ceremony. 

Alum Jenny Xie '08 wins two major awards for her book of poems Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018).

Princeton University senior Sara Krolewski has been awarded a Witherspoon Scholarship to study literature at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is an English major who is also earning a certificate in French.