Department of English
Auditorium 112
1155 Union Circle #311307
Denton, TX 76203-5017
Phone: (940) 565-2050
Fax: (940) 565-4355
Latest News
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/
Read more »Miroslav Penkov's Book Featured
December 19, 2011
Public Radio International's (PRI) "The World" radio program has featured Miroslav Penkov's East of the West: A Country in Stories as one of it's recommended 2011 Holiday Books.
For details, see http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/holiday-books/
Read more »Nicole Smith Featured
December 7, 2011
Dr. Nicole Smith is currently being featured by UNT's InHouse Portrait Gallery.
Please see http://inhouse.unt.edu/portrait-gallery-nicole-smith-jh-shelton-teaching-award-winner
Read more »Sigma Tau Delta Bake Sale
December 2, 2011
Sigma Tau Delta
Fall Fundraiser Bake Sale
Monday and Tuesday 12/5-12/6
10am-2pm
Between LANG and AUD Buildings, outside.
Please see "Read more" for further details.
Read more »PhD Candidate, Tim Regetz, Wins Grant
December 2, 2011
Tim Regetz, a PhD candidate in Medieval Literature, has just been awarded a Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant to travel to Chicago. He's been selected to give a talk called "Margery Kempe and the Discourse of Universal Salvation" at the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies's prestigious Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Please congratulate him.
Read more »UNT American Studies Colloquium Lecture
November 30, 2011
Kelly Clasen will give a lecture entitled: "Resisting the Commodification of Cultures: Native American Geographies in the Works of Jewett, Chopin, and Cather" this Friday, December 2nd at 1PM. The lecture is part of the UNT American Studies Colloquium will be held in the Language Building 310. See you there.
Read more »A New Cambridge Edition of Samuel Richardson's Early Works
November 21, 2011
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson: Early Works, "Aesop's Fables," "Letters Written to and for Particular Friends," and Other Works, edited by Alexander Pettit is now available from Cambridge University Press.
Please see "Read More" for details.
News from Ann McCutchan
November 16, 2011
Ann McCutchan's book, River Music has been nominated for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year award. Also, please see "Read More" for Ann McCutchan's interviews with Baton Rouge and Louisiana Public Radio.
Read more »A Poetry Reading by Bruce Bond
November 10, 2011
Please join Dr. Bond Friday, November 11 at 7:30pm for a reception and 8pm for the reading.
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