Professor Misty Anderson is featured in the April 2013 issue of Higher Ground, the College of Arts and Sciences’ monthly magazine. ”What’s So Funny about Methodists?” discusses the serendipitous nature of the research that lead to Anderson’s most recent book, Imagining [...]
Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation’s leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century [...]
Several members of the Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics division presented their scholarship at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference theme was “The Public Work of Composition.” Lisa King (Assistant Professor) delivered [...]
This Quest Scholar of the week, for March 18-22, 2013, was Associate Professor of English, Dr. Anthony Welch. Dr. Welch specializes in English Renaissance literature with an emphasis on seventeenth-century literature and the writings of John Milton. His book The Renaissance Epic and [...]
UT’s English students and faculty now have access to a major new archive of rare books printed in 16th- and 17th-century England.
On Wednesday, 4/23, at 7pm, in HSS 203, the Department of English presents a Senior Reading. This reading will feature the poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by Graduating Seniors in the Creative Writing program. The event will be hosted by graduating [...]
The University of Tennessee’s final Writers in the Library event of the academic year will feature readings by student winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Awards. Readings from the winning works will take place in the Hodges Library [...]
The English department would like to congratulate the winners of the 2013 Creative Writing Awards. Winners of the English Department Endowed Prizes for Undergraduate Creative Writing will be awarded $200 for First Prize and $100 for Second Prize in each [...]
The Chancellor’s Honors Banquet is held each spring to recognize students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University of Tennessee for their extraordinary achievements. This year’s banquet was held April 8th at the University Center and honored the following members [...]
On Monday, 4/15, at 7pm, in the Hodges Library Auditorium, Dr. Marilyn Kallet will will read at UT’s Writers in the Library in celebration of the launch of her new book, The Love That Moves Me, a collection of love [...]
Adam Prince will read at UT’s Writers in the Library, on Monday, 4/8, at 7pm, in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. Prince will also hold a Q&A session for all interested students, from 3-4 pm that same day, in [...]
Dawn Coleman’s Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2013) recovers a crucial moment in the history of the intimate yet often contentious relationship between religion and literature. Coleman’s book highlights the intersection of two cultural [...]
Andrew Eichel will be presenting his paper “Marginal Manifestoes: Medieval Texts and the Translator’s Note” at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, June 25-28, as part of a conference entitled “The Middle Ages in the Modern World.” Travel funds from [...]
Andrew Eichel will be presenting his paper “Marginal Manifestoes: Medieval Texts and the Translator’s Note” at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, June 25-28, as part of a conference entitled “The Middle Ages in the Modern World.” Travel funds from [...]
Andrew P. Dillon has poetry forthcoming in Connotation Press (summer 2013), Beecher’s Magazine (summer 2013) and in the inaugural issue of China Grove (August 2013). He also attended Binghamton University’s Writing By Degrees: Biennial Conference on Writing as a poetry panelist in October 2012.
Andrew P. Dillon has poetry forthcoming in Connotation Press (summer 2013), Beecher’s Magazine (summer 2013) and in the inaugural issue of China Grove (August 2013). He also attended Binghamton University’s Writing By Degrees: Biennial Conference on Writing as a poetry panelist in October 2012.
PhD candidate in Fiction Michael Shum’s recent short story “In Defense of the Body” finished in second place for the 2013 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction judged by Rick Moody. It will appear in Issue No. 18 of The Doctor [...]
PhD candidate in Fiction Michael Shum’s recent short story “In Defense of the Body” finished in second place for the 2013 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction judged by Rick Moody. It will appear in Issue No. 18 of The Doctor [...]
Royce Best, a first year Master’s candidate, is the recent winner of the George Eliot Fellowship Essay Prize. His essay, “‘And her wings fall from her and she drops to the ground’: Reading Eliot’s Mr. Casaubon through Benjamin Jowett’sPhaedrus” will [...]
The Mahogany Soul Cafe is a monthly event that encourages students to share their creative work and features poets, singers and other performers, as well as free food. The Department of English will be co-sponsoring, along with the Office of Multicultural [...]
The Mahogany Soul Cafe is a monthly event that encourages students to share their creative work and features poets, singers and other performers, as well as free food. The Department of English will be co-sponsoring, along with the Office of Multicultural [...]
The English Department will make Writing Awards in each of the four categories described below. Students must be enrolled undergraduates at UT. Manuscripts must be typed, all prose is double-spaced. Cover sheet should contain: name, address, phone number, student identification [...]
The Department of English and Sigma Tau Delta (the English honors society) are now accepting submissions for the English Major at UTK Meme Contest. Selected submissions will appear on the new Department of English webpage and on its Facebook page. [...]
The topic for Fall 2013′s Junior-Senior Honors Seminar is Modernist Masterpieces: Conrad, Joyce and Woolf. Students enrolled in this honors seminar will read three astonishing modernist novels: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), and Virginia Woolf’s [...]
Today, at 3:30pm, in 1210 McClung Tower, the Nineteenth-Century British Research Seminar will present a talk by Professor Gordon Turnbull entitled “Quoting What Comes Naturally: Boswell and Biographical Possession.” Professor Turnbull has been, since 1997, General Editor of the Yale Boswell Editions. [...]
Today, at 3:30pm, in 1210 McClung Tower, the Nineteenth-Century British Research Seminar will present a talk by Professor Gordon Turnbull entitled “Quoting What Comes Naturally: Boswell and Biographical Possession.” Professor Turnbull has been, since 1997, General Editor of the Yale Boswell Editions. [...]
English Major Advising week is March 4-8, so anyone needing to be advised for Fall semester 2013 in order to register should contact their English Advisor as soon as possible to schedule an appointment. While we advise anyone who has [...]
English Major Advising week is March 4-8, so anyone needing to be advised for Fall semester 2013 in order to register should contact their English Advisor as soon as possible to schedule an appointment. While we advise anyone who has [...]
NOVELIST T COOPER TO READ: Novelist T Cooper will read at UT’s Writers in the Library on Monday, 3/11, at 7pm, in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. There will also be a Q&A with the author in 1210 McClung [...]
Screenwriter Scott Myers will give a talk on Jungian character archetypes in Hollywood films on Friday, 3/1, at 3 pm, in Hodges Library Auditorium titled “Archetypes: Character Structure, Film Analysis, and Screenwriting Theory. The talk, which will allude to Hollywood classics [...]
The Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies Speakers Committee is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, 2/27, Prof. Eric Carl Link of the University of Memphis will be speaking on “The Secret Life of American Literary Naturalism” at 3:30 p.m. in [...]
On Wednesday, 4/23, at 7pm, in HSS 203, the Department of English presents a Senior Reading. This reading will feature the poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by Graduating Seniors in the Creative Writing program. The event will be hosted by graduating [...]
The University of Tennessee’s final Writers in the Library event of the academic year will feature readings by student winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Awards. Readings from the winning works will take place in the Hodges Library [...]
The English department would like to congratulate the winners of the 2013 Creative Writing Awards. Winners of the English Department Endowed Prizes for Undergraduate Creative Writing will be awarded $200 for First Prize and $100 for Second Prize in each [...]
Professor Misty Anderson is featured in the April 2013 issue of Higher Ground, the College of Arts and Sciences’ monthly magazine. ”What’s So Funny about Methodists?” discusses the serendipitous nature of the research that lead to Anderson’s most recent book, Imagining [...]
The Chancellor’s Honors Banquet is held each spring to recognize students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University of Tennessee for their extraordinary achievements. This year’s banquet was held April 8th at the University Center and honored the following members [...]
Several members of the Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics division presented their scholarship at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference theme was “The Public Work of Composition.” Lisa King (Assistant Professor) delivered [...]
This Quest Scholar of the week, for March 18-22, 2013, was Associate Professor of English, Dr. Anthony Welch. Dr. Welch specializes in English Renaissance literature with an emphasis on seventeenth-century literature and the writings of John Milton. His book The Renaissance Epic and [...]
The topic for Fall 2013′s Junior-Senior Honors Seminar is Modernist Masterpieces: Conrad, Joyce and Woolf. Students enrolled in this honors seminar will read three astonishing modernist novels: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), and Virginia Woolf’s [...]
The course descriptions for both Graduate and Undergraduate courses are now available on the Course Descriptions page. Priority registration begins for Summer 2013 on Feb. 27th and for Fall 2013 on March 11th & 12th. The following are the registration [...]
The English Department’s First-Year Composition Program and Writing Center have been awarded the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC) Writing Program Certificate of Excellence. Among the criteria for this highly prestigious award are the following: that the program imaginatively [...]
Katie Burnett, a member of our doctoral students, was awarded a Tennessee Center for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies dissertation fellowship for the 2012-2013 year. She has accepted the latter award. [...]
Michelle Commander was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to spend the 2012–13 academic year in Ghana. Michelle is currently teaching and conducting research on the subject of her current book project, which examines the complex interplay between traditional conceptualizations of [...]
Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation’s leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century [...]
Dawn Coleman’s Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2013) recovers a crucial moment in the history of the intimate yet often contentious relationship between religion and literature. Coleman’s book highlights the intersection of two cultural [...]
In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betrayed a [...]
The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. Henry’s new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of [...]
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