Department of English
Auditorium 112
1155 Union Circle #311307
Denton, TX 76203-5017
Phone: (940) 565-2050
Fax: (940) 565-4355
Latest News
Podcast with 2013 Rilke Prize Winner Paisley Rekdal
May 17, 2013
Julie West with the UNT office of Research of Research and Development conducted a podcast with the 2013 Rilke Prize Winner, Paisley Rekdal.
Please see the link for details: https://research.unt.edu/media/podcast-interview-paisley-rekdal-poet-and...
Read more »Faculty Win Awards
May 6, 2013
Dr. Jack Peters and Dr. Alex Pettit have both won major university awards. Dr. Peters has been named a University Distinguished Research Professor and Dr. Pettit has been named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor.
Read more »Upchurch Wins Shelton Award
April 30, 2013
The UNT Faculty Awards Committee has selected Robert Upchurch as the recipient of the 2013 J. H. Shelton Excellence in Teaching Award, one of UNT’s most prestigious teaching awards.
Read more »University Writing Award Winners
March 20, 2013
The English Department has swept the 2013 University Writing Awards: all six graduate and undergraduate winners are English Department students.
The graduate winners are Kara Dorris (poetry), Erin Stalcup (fiction), and Matthew Davis (scholarly prose).
The undergraduate winners are Melissa Finefrock (poetry), Jon Savage (creative prose), and Caitlin Smith (scholarly prose).
Congratulations to all six!
Read more »Announcing the Voertman Academy of American Poets Prize
February 28, 2013
The Department of English is pleased to announce a $200 Academy of American Poets prize endowed by Paul Voertman for creative writing graduate students. The winner will be recognized at the UNT Rilke Prize reading on April 9, 2013. Final judging will be by Paisley Rekdal, winner of the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize.
Read more »Rekdal Wins 2013 Rilke Prize
February 26, 2013
Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, has won the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize. The $10,000 prize recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision. Rekdal will read at the University of North Texas on Tuesday, April 9 and at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture on Wednesday, April 10. For KERA radio coverage of this year's prize, including an interview with Rekdal, see http://artandseek.net/2013/02/26/unt-announces-second-winner-of-its-10000-poetry-prize/
Read more »Miroslav Penkov wins BBC award
October 3, 2012
Miroslav Penkov has won the £15,000 BBC International Short Story Award for his story, "East of the West." See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m7rqn for details.
Read more »Raja wins million-dollar grant!
October 1, 2012
Dr. Masood Raja has won a one million dollar grant from the State Department to set up a collaborative relationship between UNT and the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad.
Read more »Bruce Bond wins UNT Foundation Award!
August 23, 2012
Regents Professor Bruce Bond has won the UNT Foundation Eminent Faculty Award, a $15,000 prize given by the UNT Foundation in recognition of "a faculty member who has made outstanding and sustained contributions to scholarly-creative activity, teaching, and service and has served as an inspiration to the University of North Texas community." This is one of UNT's highest honors. Congratulations to Dr. Bond!
Read more »UNT Sigma Tau Delta Summer Symposium
August 10, 2012
UNT's Sigma Tau Delta Undergraduate and Graduate Students are hosting a first annual "Summer Symposium in English for Denton-area High School Students" on Monday, Aug 13th, from 9am-5pm.
Read more »Podcast Interview with 2012 Rilke Prize Winner, Laura Kasischke
May 29, 2012
The UNT Office of Research has posted a wonderful podcast interview that Julie West did with 2012 UNT Rilke Prize winner Laura Kasischke during her visit to Denton: https://research.unt.edu/media/podcast-interview-laura-kasischke-poet-and-unt-rilke-prize-winner.
Read more »The UNT English Classes of 2012 Head for Graduate School
May 28, 2012
As they have done every year, graduates of our undergrad and grad programs are moving on to some exciting destinations.
Read more »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 »- 1 of 4
- ››