NEA fellowship winner

English Professor Suzanne Matson is among recipients of the highly competitive 2012 Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts. More

National Jesuit Book Award

English Professor Alan Richardson has received a National Jesuit Book Award for The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts. More

Justice for Magdalenes

The advocacy group seeking justice for survivors of Ireland's Magdalen laundries, represented by English Associate Professor James Smith, has filed a report alleging widespread state involvement with the notorious workhouses. He discussed the case with the Irish Examiner, as well as the Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph and Time Magazine.

Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4

A prose poem by English Professor Elizabeth Graver has been chosen to accompany a photograph of an Arctic weather station, which is the cover image of the current issue of Hayden's Ferry Review.

Quoth the detective

News that an ABC TV series will feature Edgar Allan Poe solving crimes as a detective working in pre-Civil War Boston has been met with delight by some - but not all, writes English Professor Paul Lewis. Boston Globe

The Broken Tower
A Life of Hart Crane, a biography of the American poet written by poet and University Professor of English Paul Mariani - has drawn the attention of actor James Franco, who has initiated a conversation with Mariani about making it his next film. Springfield Republican

The Romantic Voice
John Mahoney reads poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats.