Department of English
Auditorium 112
1155 Union Circle #311307
Denton, TX 76203-5017
Phone: (940) 565-2050
Fax: (940) 565-4355
Latest News
Early British Literature Colloquium Spring Lecture
April 30, 2012
Sarah Beckwith (Professor of English and Chair of Theater Studies, Duke University)
"What Mamillius Knew: Ceremonies of Initiation in The Winter's Tale."
3:30 pm
ENV 110
Everyone is welcome!
Read more »Marshall Armintor's new class
April 19, 2012
In the Fall 2012 semester Dr. Marshall Armintor will teach a new class on Jewish Graphic Novels in conjunction with UNT's Jewish Studies Program.
Please see the recent article in the North Texas Daily for more information: http://www.ntdaily.com/?p=65686
UNT Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium
April 17, 2012
Please join the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium for their final talk fo the semester.
Jeff Doty (English, West Texas A&M University)
"'This Ticklish Commodity of the Vulgar's Favor': Shakespeare and the Popular Appetite"
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 4:00pm
Auditorium Building, Rm. 103
All are welcome!
Read more »American Studies Colloquium
April 13, 2012
The last ASC of the semester features Judith Yaross Lee, a professor in the School of Communication Studies, at Ohio University.
Lee will speak on “Twain's Vernacular Vision and the Visual Vernacular” on April 19 at 3:30 PM in the Willis Library Forum.
For more information, see http://untamericanstudies.weebly.com/.
Read more »2012 UNT Rilke Prize Events
April 9, 2012
There is both a UNT campus reading and a special reading at The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture for inaugural UNT Rilke Prize winner, Laura Kasischke.
Please see "Read more" for details.
Read more »Graduate Students Win Awards
April 5, 2012
Graduate students Hella Bloom, Darcy Lewis, and Heidi Cephus have recently won awards for their excellent scholarship.
Please see "Read more" for details.
Read more »Nicole Smith's New Book
March 26, 2012
Nicole Smith’s handsome new book, Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature, has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
See "Read more" for details.
Read more »American Studies Colloquium
March 26, 2012
The ASC presents:
Spencer D.C. Keralis, (Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNT Libraries) and his lecture "The Squirrel on a Golden Chain: Cruelty, Captivity, and the Making of Enlightenment Boyhood."
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 1 PM in the Willis Library Forum.
Read more »Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium
March 8, 2012
The Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium will host Paige Reynolds next week for what promises to be a wonderful talk.
"Virtue, Vulnerability, and the Judgment of Elizabeth I"
Paige Reynolds (English, University of Central Arkansas)
Friday, March 16, 2012, 4:00 p.m. (AUD 103)
Please join us.
Read more »Departmental Awards Announced
March 7, 2012
The 2011-2012 UNT English Department Award winners have been announced.
Please see "Read more" for details.
Honor's College Information Session
March 5, 2012
English Undergraduates!
There will be a recruitment meeting for English students interested in joining the Honors College. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are encouraged to attend:
Thursday, March 8th, 3:30-4:30pm in Sage 258.
UNT Creative Writing Program
February 20, 2012
The UNT Research Office website has just published a wonderful, lengthy profile our our creative writing program. See http://research.unt.edu/research-profiles/singular-place-singular-time.
Read more »Rilke Prize Winner Announced
February 10, 2012
Laura Kasischke’s Space, in Chains published by Copper Canyon Press, has won the first annual UNT Rilke Prize.
Read more »Bruce Bond's new book
February 9, 2012
Bruce Bond's new book, The Visible, is now out from LSU Press. The publisher's description states that the book takes readers "into a surreal landscape 'where it is neither day nor night / but both at once,' where light becomes an imaginative force that both illuminates and obscures." The book's cover features glowing praise from Claudia Emerson, Clarie Bateman, and B. H. Fairchild. For details, see http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-visible/
Read more »Teaching Fellow Nominees
February 7, 2012
The following graduate students have been nominated as representatives from the Department of English for the university-wide Outstanding Teaching Fellow Awards competition: Jessica Hindman, April Murphy, Ashley Reis, and Mark Sweeney.
Read more »Honors College Q&A
January 30, 2012
There will be a recruitment meeting for English undergraduate students interested in joining the Honors College.
Please see "Read more" for details.
Read more »Professor Emeritus in English Don Vann to lecture on Dickens
January 25, 2012
Join UNT Libraries Monday, February 6th at 4pm in the Willis Library Forum for a celebration of Dickens
Please see "Read more" for details
American Studies Colloquium Spring 2012 Schedule
January 25, 2012
The ASC has a great series this spring.
Please see "Read More" for details.
Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium Spring 2012 Schedule
January 17, 2012
The MRC has a great program lined up for the Spring 2012 semester. All are welcome!
Please see "Read More" for the full schedule.
Studies in the Novel
January 9, 2012
The winter 2011 edition of Studies in the Novel is now available. It features essays on: James Hogg, Charlotte Brontë, Djuna Barnes, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood.
For more information, please see their website: http://www.english.unt.edu/sitn/
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