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August 2023

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Academy of American Poets names Erin Elizabeth Smith Poet Laureate Fellow

August 27, 2023

Please join the UT English department in congratulating Erin Elizabeth Smith, Distinguished Lecturer in English, selected as a Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets. She is one of 23 laureates honored nationally by the Academy. Founded in 1934, the Academy promotes the reading and creation of poetry in America through a variety […]

Filed Under: Business and Nonprofit News, English Department News, Writing Publishing and Media News Tagged With: College of Arts and Sciences, Community Outreach, English major, Poetry, Sundress Academy

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2023-2024 Undergraduate Scholarship Winners

August 25, 2023

Please join in the English Department in celebrating our undergraduate scholarship winners for 2023-2024. Charles and Frances Mangam Merit Scholarship winner Onyx Bard is a senior in Creative Writing. A Knoxville native, they enjoy traveling, stargazing, playing D&D; they also provide a foster home for cats through the local Humane Society. Ila June Bigham is […]

Filed Under: Education News, English Department News, Scholarships

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Theatre and Medicine

August 12, 2023

Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Bloomsbury Press, 2023 Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre […]

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