News
Current English News
2008
- November 4th Alum wins Whiting Award
- Fiction writer Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, receives $50,000 Whiting Writers’ Award.
- October 14th Shauna Seliy, fiction writer
- Novelist Shauna Seliy’s September 11th fiction reading is now available for viewing through CornellCast.
- October 1st Print and American literature
- “There is no frigate like a book...” First year students learn about the power of the page and the letter press.
- September 30th ShakesQueer Symposium
- Shakespeareans and Queer Theorists cross paths at ShakesQueer Symposium, marking a new age in both fields.
- September 11th Epoch Magazine Honored
- Epoch literary magazine honored with four stories from one issue forthcoming in major anthologies.
- September 9th 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize
- Poet, novelist, biographer, and Kappa Alpha Professor Robert Morgan receives 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize.
- August 22nd New and Visiting Faculty!
- Jeremy Braddock is among ten new and visiting faculty to join the Department this fall.
- August 8th Mellon Grant Recipients
- English faculty and graduate students among Mellon 2008-09 grant recipients.
- July 17th “There is no one right way to read a poem.”
- M.H. Abrams spoke in the Statler Auditorium just ten days before his 96th birthday.
- May 7th Melissa Bank returns to Cornell
- Best-selling author Melissa Bank, MFA ’98, to return to Cornell as Visiting Writer in Spring 2009.
- April 18th The Chronicle of Higher Education
- M.H. Abrams, English Professor at Cornell since 1945, is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- April 17th Poem in Your Pocket Day
- MFA graduate student poets celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day in New York City.
- April 9th Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Junot Diaz, Cornell MFA in Fiction, 1995, wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
- April 1st Grant Farred Reading
- Grant Farred, Professor of English and Africana Studies, scholar and football fan, read from his recent memoir on March 28th.
- March 10th Visiting writer hosts Cornell undergrads
- Cornell undergrads attend Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s staged reading of his play in New York City.
- February 28th Reading by Sarah Mkhonza
- 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.
- February 15th Readings viewed through CornellCast
- Readings by Spring 2008 Visiting Writers Paul Lisicky, Mark Doty, and Denis Johnson can now be viewed and heard through CornellCast.
- February 8th Fellowship for James McConkey
- Anonymous donor honors Emeritus Professor James McConkey with a fellowship named for him.
- January 15th Poetry. Fiction. Memoir.
- 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).
- January 12th James McConkey Reading
- 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)