Events
Graduating Creative Writers to Read
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 [...]
John C. Hodges Graduate Student Writing Award Winners to Read
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 [...]
2013 Creative Writing Award Winners
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 [...]
News
Professor Misty Anderson Featured in April’s Higher Ground
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 [...]
English Faculty and Students Honored at 2013 Chancellor’s Banquet
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 [...]
Faculty and Graduate Students Present at CCCC
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 [...]
Anthony Welch Named Quest Scholar
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 [...]
English 398/498: Junior-Senior Honors Seminar Announces Topic
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 [...]
Course Descriptions Now Available for Summer and Fall 2013
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 [...]
First-Year Composition Program and Writing Center Awarded Certificate of Excellence
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 Recognized
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
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 [...]
Publications
Upon Provincialism
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 [...]
Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel
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 [...]
Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self
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 of George Eliot: A Critical Biography
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 [...]