Rutgers English Department News
Milton and the Long Restoration (2016), a collection of essays edited by Ann Coiro and Blair Hoxby, has been awarded the Milton Society's Irene Samuel Memorial Award for a distinguished multi-author collection.
In November 2016, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis gave the keynote address at "After Chantal: An International Conference on the work and legacy of Chantal Ackerman" at the University of Westminster in London.
Evie Shockley received the 2015 Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry from the African American Literature and Culture Society at a ceremony and reading held at the American Literature Association conference in Boston.
Doug Jones was awarded Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury) in 2015.
This prize is designed to honor tenured professors who make exceptional connections between their academic research and their teaching.
The Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, named to honor the memory of a noted mathematician and Rutgers University Professor, is awarded to a Rutgers faculty member who best exemplifies imaginative research and dedicated and exceptional service to the University. I’m sure you will agree that Cheryl amply deserves such a commendation.
Cheryl Wall is only the second member of our department to win this award--and the first in nearly twenty years.
A 1914 drama starring Native Americans went missing for years.
"What's in a name?" Juliet famously asks in Shakespeare's iconic tale of young love.
For the Rutgers British Studies Center – nee the Rutgers British Studies Project – a name not only confers new, formal status, but also suggests that the state university is positioning itself to become a pre-eminent venue for interdisciplinary scholarship on topics from Beowulf to Tony Blair.
Barry V. Qualls, Professor of English and FAS Dean of Humanities, receives distinguished award at a reception hosted by President Richard L. McCormick to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers.
A teaching method that combines online education with face-to-face interaction is gradually finding its way onto Rutgers’ campuses.
Cheryl A. Wall, a distinguished critic in the field of African American literary studies, has been named Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English.
Writers House, a high-tech laboratory of ideas, taps the internet generation to create new forms of writing.
A teaching method that combines online education with face-to-face interaction has found its way onto Rutgers’ campuses.
There is one thing that scholars across all academic disciplines have in common: writing.
Despite its emphasis on multimedia, image, video, and sound, Writers House was purposely named.