Department of English

On the set of HOUSE5, a feature film made by Professor Trevor Mowchun and his undergraduate students in the advanced filmmaking class

Students work with Professor Terry Harpold as part of the Imagining Climate Change initiative Trees!

Serling @ 100: December 10, 2024 to January 30, 2025

The collection, curated by Professor Terry Harpold and Dr. Jeanne Ewert (Smathers Libraries), celebrates the career of Rod Serling, a principal figure of the Golden Age of Television and the creator of “The Twilight Zone” TV series.

Professor Kenneth Kidd delivered the keynote speech at the Taiwanese Children's Literature Research Association

Em Petlev, English and History dual major, presented at The Alexander Grass Scholars Program

Em worked under the direction of Professor Margaret Galvan on their project "Making a Magazine: Early Contributions to Sinister Wisdom."

Professor Roger Maioli is among this year's eight Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.

Professor Ange Mlinko discusses her new book Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets (Oxford) at The Lynx Books.

The monograph explores Florida's influence on major figures such as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.

Professor Pamela Gilbert and Dr. John Murchek at the 2024 CLAS Fall Convocation

Dr. Margaret Galvan nominated for Eisner Award

Dr. Galvan's book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, has been nominated for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Professor Michael Hofmann announced winner of the International Booker Prize 2024

Professor Hofmann was recognized for his translation of the German novel Kairos

Professor Barbara Mennel, graduate student Alison Walsh, and UF alum Loren Pilcher presented in Udine, Italy in September 2023

Presentations for their panel, ‘Labor’s Process: Theory and Documentary in Changing Media Ecologies’, emerged in part from Dr. Mennel’s fall 2021 graduate seminar Studies in Film: 21st Century Film and Media Theory.

Kimberly Williams and Rachel Hartnett Awarded 2022 O. McQuown Award

The award celebrates scholars with a commitment to addressing social issues and fostering opportunities for marginalized peoples.