News | Department of English

In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor of English Robert Yongue Turner (1927–2021)

February 25, 2021
Professor Herman Beavers named Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies

February 1, 2021
Penn Today on the hand-drawn animated short films of senior Cinema Studies major Dennis Sungmin Kim

January 29, 2021
20th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice features Professor Margo Natalie Crawford in conversation with Cornel West

January 29, 2021
Matty Hemming Wins the James Baldwin Review's Graduate Student Essay Award

January 20, 2021
Lorene Cary’s ABCS course Writing and Politics featured in Penn Today

January 19, 2021
Professor Dagmawi Woubshet featured in Omnia magazine: "Lost and found: The art of translation"

January 7, 2021
Professor Simone White named Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English

December 21, 2020
Professor J.C. Cloutier’s book Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature wins the MLA’s Matei Calinescu Prize for a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twenty-first-century literature and thought.

December 15, 2020
Professor Melissa Sanchez’s book Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition receives Honorable Mention for the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.

December 15, 2020

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