Check out the English Department Events Calendar to find out what's going on...
Remaking English poetry
'Gerard Manley Hopkins,' a biography by University Professor of English Paul Mariani, draws praise as 'Book of the Week' in the May 11 issue of the New Yorker. An abstract is available here
Poe Square
English Prof. Paul Lewis, leader of a campaign to 'reclaim' author Edgar Allan Poe for his native Boston, joined Mayor Menino in dedication of Poe Square today.
News release, Boston Globe, Book Connection.com
Major poetry award
English Prof. Paul Mariani has won the twelfth annual John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. More
Boston College Magazine presents
Prospects
So, you want to be an English major
by Professor Suzanne Matson
Ireland's Magdalen Laundries
Associate Prof. James Smith needed the distance of living abroad to write his new book about the Irish women who suffered incarceration in the Magdalen laundries. Irish Times
More Department News
Epicenters is an on-line arts magazine edited by English majors and advised by Adjunct Assoc. Prof. John Anderson. The first issue features faculty members Carlo Rotella, Robert Chibka, Elizabeth Kirschner, Paul Mariani, Kim Garcia, Maxim Shrayer, and Ricco Siasoco.
Graduates
The graduate colloquium features papers and panels by graduate students and visiting scholars.
Where are they now and what are they doing?
Our on-line resource tells what our English majors have been doing since graduation. If you wish to be included, please e-mail Tracy Downing downingt@bc.edu.
