News
Current English News
2008
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- April 18th, 2008
- M.H. Abrams, English Professor at Cornell since 1945, is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Poem in Your Pocket Day
- April 17th, 2008
- MFA graduate student poets celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day in New York City.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- April 09th, 2008
- Junot Diaz, Cornell MFA in Fiction, 1995, wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
- Grant Farred Reading
- April 01th, 2008
- Grant Farred, Professor of English and Africana Studies, scholar and football fan, read from his recent memoir on March 28th.
- Visiting writer hosts Cornell undergrads
- March 10th, 2008
- Cornell undergrads attend Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s staged reading of his play in New York City.
- Reading by Sarah Mkhonza
- February 28th, 2008
- Watch and listen to the reading by Sarah Mkhonza, a visiting scholar at Cornell and writer-in-residence with the CRESP-sponsored Ithaca City of Asylum.
- Fellowship for James McConkey
- February 08th, 2008
- Anonymous donor honors Emeritus Professor James McConkey with a fellowship named for him.
- Poetry. Fiction. Memoir.
- January 15th, 2008
- Three award-winning visiting writers will join the Creative Writing faculty to teach writing workshops in Spring 2008: Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, and Paul Lisicky (pictured above).
- James McConkey Reading
- January 12th, 2008
- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy returned to Cornell November 1st, 2007 to give the James McConkey Reading in American Fiction. (View the reading on CornellCast)