April 24, 2024 Brian Teare wins William Carlos Williams Award April 11, 2024 Meet the Class of ’24: Kate Thornbury's Path Led Her from Literature to Law December 6, 2023 Carmen Lamas wins MLA Prize in U.S. Latina & Latino and Chicana & Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies November 30, 2023 Rita Dove receives Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters October 24, 2023 Gregory Orr Wins Library of VA Award July 11, 2023 MFA Poet MaKshya Tolbert wins Hurston/Wright College Award April 21, 2023 Prof. Lisa Goff wins All University Public Service Award! April 19, 2023 Prof. Mary Kuhn honored with Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award September 8, 2022 Rita Dove honored with Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement June 2, 2022 Prof. Jahan Ramazani elected into the American Philosophical Society March 7, 2022 In Memoriam: Wide-Ranging Literary and Pop Culture Critic Paul Cantor February 23, 2022 Rita Dove & Kiki Petrosino on Orion Recommendations for Black History Month January 21, 2022 Visiting Writer Rabih Alameddine Interviewed on Tin House Podcast January 17, 2022 Kate Stephenson featured on the "Pedagogue" podcast January 10, 2022 Rita Dove featured on UVA President Jim Ryan’s Inside UVa podcast September 17, 2021 Rita Dove’s ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse’ Is Her Plea for Unity, Collective Well-being June 25, 2021 2021 English Graduates Among Those Who Win Edgar F. Shannon Award April 22, 2021 Q&A: Edmundson Says Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ Shows How Democracy Can Thrive April 15, 2021 Poet Hajjar Baban Receives Soros Fellowship for New Americans April 2, 2021 Professor Stephen Cushman Weighs in on Hemingway for Ken Burns’ Film February 19, 2021 State Department Names Poet and English Professor Rita Dove a ‘Trailblazer’ November 18, 2020 Award-winning teacher, Samuel Lemley, PhD 2020, Prepares to teach the Works of the Past With Digital Tools November 2, 2020 Caleb Agnew (PhD, 2019) featured in PhD+ November spotlight October 8, 2020 During a Global Pandemic, UVA’s Writing Center Is Reinventing Face-to-Face Tutoring September 22, 2020 UVA Professors and Local Teachers Take on "Teaching Hard Literature" Project June 16, 2020 Prof. Kiki Petrosino Explores Black Heritage in New Book, ‘White Blood’ June 5, 2020 Cherrie Kwok Awarded 2020 Jefferson Fellowship May 26, 2020 Victor Luftig and Lisa Spaar featured in UVA Today article May 6, 2020 Aimee Seu wins 2020 Henfield Prize April 18, 2020 Samuel Lemley wins Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award in the Arts and Humanities April 9, 2020 Brian Teare wins Guggenheim Fellowship March 25, 2020 Brian Teare wins the Four Quartets Prize January 21, 2020 Cynthia Wall wins 2019 Robert Lowry Patten Award for Outstanding Book in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies December 9, 2019 English Major Kristen Barrett earns Marshall Scholarship December 9, 2019 UVa English Department Graduate Students Save Alderman’s Old Card Catalogue November 24, 2019 English and Politics Double Major Eileen Ying Earns Rhodes Scholarship October 31, 2019 Ph.D. Students Transform Rotunda Into Planetarium, Realizing Jefferson’s Vision July 29, 2019 MFA Alum Mary Beth Keane wins "The Tonight Show Summer Read" June 28, 2019 Alum named new president of Reed College June 1, 2019 Piers Gelly wins Henfield Prize May 6, 2019 ‘Charlottesville is Not a Campaign Prop: Op-Ed by Lisa Woolfork.’ April 24, 2019 Four Questions on Game of Thrones with Professor Lisa Woolfork April 24, 2019 Whitman’s Guide to a Thriving Democracy by Professor Mark Edmundson February 11, 2019 Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman: An Exhibit in the Special Collections Library December 17, 2018 Volunteering Helps Students Breathe Life into Their Writing November 12, 2018 Grad Student Samuel Lemley earns top prize in National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest October 25, 2018 The Class that Rocked My World’: Race & Ethnicity in Latinx Literature September 30, 2018 Alumnus Makes Poetry Eye-Opening and Urgent June 4, 2018 Addie Eliades, ’17, wins Fulbright April 6, 2018 Anna Brickhouse awarded 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship April 6, 2018 Puzzle Poetry Group featured in UVA Today October 18, 2017 Rita Dove wins Library of Virginia Award October 18, 2017 Lisa Spaar to Give Fall Convocation Keynote June 15, 2017 Congratulations to the Class of 2017! February 14, 2017 Department faculty offer "Readings for Our Time" November 15, 2016 Prize-winning research reveals conflicted portrait of Faulkner as father November 7, 2016 Jerome McGann receives 2016 Thomas Jefferson Award August 22, 2016 Stephen Railton's Digital Yoknapatawpha project earns NEH grant May 27, 2016 Rita Felski wins Niels Bohr Professorship April 20, 2016 Creative Writing students benefit from Caryl Phillips residency April 3, 2016 Caryl Phillips, Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, on Grounds April 11-22 March 25, 2016 Paul Muldoon to deliver GESA conference keynote April 16 March 4, 2016 Interview with new Creative Writing Professor Jeffrey Allen February 28, 2016 In Memoriam: Ralph Cohen
December 6, 2023 Carmen Lamas wins MLA Prize in U.S. Latina & Latino and Chicana & Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
September 17, 2021 Rita Dove’s ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse’ Is Her Plea for Unity, Collective Well-being
November 18, 2020 Award-winning teacher, Samuel Lemley, PhD 2020, Prepares to teach the Works of the Past With Digital Tools
January 21, 2020 Cynthia Wall wins 2019 Robert Lowry Patten Award for Outstanding Book in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies
February 11, 2019 Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman: An Exhibit in the Special Collections Library
November 12, 2018 Grad Student Samuel Lemley earns top prize in National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
