Hilary Havens, associate professor in the UT Department of English and director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program, has been awarded a Lindsay Young Professorship. Havens’s research interests are the 18th century, digital humanities, the romantic period, and the novel. Her book, Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print, was published by Cambridge […]
Urmila Seshagiri, professor in the UT Department of English, has been named a Distinguished Professor in Humanities. Seshagiri specializes in modernism, contemporary fiction, and women’s writing. Seshagiri has made a profound impact on literary scholarship. She discovered, edited, and published Virginia Woolf’s early comic fantasia, The Life of Violet (Princeton University Press, 2025). She is […]
Amy J. Elias, Chancellor’s professor in the UT Department of English and director of the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts, has been named a Distinguished Professor in Humanities. Since joining the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an associate professor in 2002, Elias has contributed greatly to the study of contemporary literature and humanities […]