Department of English

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

UFOs, the Deep Weird, and the Impossible

World-renowned scholars Jeffrey Kripal and Jack Hunter will present at the hybrid Charles Fort Sesquicentennial Symposium on March 26th, 2024

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.

"Speculative Latinidades: Latinx DNA, Admixed Genomes, & Other Science-Fictions"

UF Department of English alumna Dr. Karina Vado will present on March 23, 2023, in the Ustler Hall Atrium.

Dr. Delia Steverson keynote speaker at the "Race & the Body: The Legacy of Slavery" symposium at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Dr. Delia Steverson was invited to deliver her lecture "'I would leave my skin a legacy': Histories of Slave Narratives in African American Literature"

Dr. Rae X. Yan Awarded for Teaching Excellence

Dr. Rae X. Yan is among 8 CLAS faculty who received the 2022 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award this past Spring 2022.

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.

Collaborating on stories with WeaveTales

This semester, students in the Community Engagement Honors Seminar at UF’s English Department are working with WeaveTales to write immigration stories about two amazing individuals: Linsey Derival and Mustapha Mohammed.

Dr. Anastasia Ulanowicz Guest Lecturing in Wroclaw

Associate Professor Anastasia Ulanowicz was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Wrocław, Poland, in Fall 2021. During her stay, she gave public lectures and also guest-taught classes in children’s literature, film, and diaspora studies.

Brooke Whitaker Receives 2021 Champions for Change Award

Brooke Whitaker (BA English + BS Geography, 2021) is a recipient of the Office of Sustainability’s 2021 Champions for Change Award for her Honors Thesis, “An Anthropocene Tree: A History of the Non-Human,” directed by Professor Terry Harpold.

Kayla Rodney "Swimming Home"

Kayla Rodney published her first collection of poetry, Swimming Home, which is now available for purchase through publisher Unlikely Books.

NAVSA 2019

Undergraduate English majors Amber R. Bowes, Hannah Calderazzo, and Katherine Jovanovic presented posters at the 2019 North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Columbus, OH.

The Disability Reading Group and Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe

English PhD students Suvendu Ghatak, Kathryn Horowitz, Yvonne Medina, Cara Wieland, and Norma Aceves enjoy Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe's talk on Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Florida Writers Festival

This year's festival takes place over the 25th and 26th of October and features authors Ada Limon, Yiyun Li, Donald Antrim, and Devin Johnston.

Renowned Author Joins UF

Uwem Akpan is one of the newest members of the Creative Writing Program

Congratulations to Summer 2019 PhD Graduates

Congratulations to Dr. Estes, Dr. Milligan, Dr. Butts, Dr. Hunziker, and Dr. Hernandez

Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

Associate Chair John Cech with our 2019 inductees into Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

Debra King Teacher of the Year award

Professor Debra Walker King receiving a 2018-2019 Teacher of the Year award from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College Language Association

Professor Delia Steverson and our PhD students Kayla Rodney, Ashley Clemons, Deepthi Siriwardena and Rachal Burton at the College Language Association conference, North Carolina Central University.