News
Current English News
2009
- November 5th Cornell celebrates Nabokov book release with lecture
- The first annual Wendy Rosenthal Gellman lecture on 11/19 will feature Brian Boyd from the University of Auckland, who will speak on "Nabokov's Literary Legacy"
- October 19th Among Five Finalists
- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is among five finalists for the National Book Award in poetry.
- October 13th Alumna Toni Morrison returned to campus Oct. 1-2
- Nobel Laureate Morrison received standing ovations at a reading and a literary conversation.
- September 21st Fellow Cornell writers praise Phyllis Janowitz, James McConkey, and E.B. White
- Alison Lurie, Bob Morgan, and Emily Rosko discussed the lives and works of three of Cornell’s literary giants.
- August 23rd New and Visiting Faculty!
- Margo Natalie Crawford is among five new and visiting faculty to join the Department of English this fall.
- June 19th Andrew Galloway and Bernadette Meyler, among others, win Provost’s Award
- Distinguished awards recognize outstanding talent and research by tenured faculty members.
- June 12th Laura Brown named Vice Provost
- Brown will succeed Michele Moody-Adams as Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education July 1st.
- June 8th Sana Krasikov ’01 Awarded $100,000 Writing Prize
- One More Year, Krasikov’s debut collection of short stories, wins the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
- June 7th Norton Anthology of Drama co-authored by CU Professor
- J. Ellen Gainor, Professor of Theatre Film and Dance and Graduate Faculty Member in English collaborated on this major drama anthology.
- May 14th Welcoming Margo Crawford
- African American literature scholar Margo Crawford will join the faculty this fall. She presented a lecture about her new book Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus at the Africana Studies and Research Center on February 10.
- April 7th ...omitting needless words since 1959
- Strunk and White’s classic little book “The Elements of Style” turns 50.
- March 10th ‘Writing Lives, Making Visible’
- Scholars Arnold Rampersad and Robert Morgan spoke on the art of biography on November. The audio version is now available.
- March 9th State Theatre Reading
- Local Writers gather at Ithaca’s historic State Theatre for a marathon reading on March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
- January 30th Melissa Bank at Cornell as Visiting Professor
- Best-selling writer Bank is here for the spring term, teaching undergraduate creative writing and graduate seminars.
- January 29th Pulitzer winner Díaz returns to read February 20th
- A group reading by Melissa Bank, Junot Díaz, and Julie Schumacher will kick off the the Centennial Plus Five Celebration.
- January 5th A Charles Simic Reading
- U.S. Poet Laureate (07-08) Charles Simic read from his works on October 2nd. A video of this reading is available for viewing at the CornellCast site.
- January 2nd ‘Super Latino’
- Novelist Junot Diáz joined Cornell faculty members for a discussion of arts and immigration.