News from English

Professor Engel Publishes Article and Review

2012-04-30T14:04:30Z

Professor Engel had an essay published in the recent issue of the Sewanee Theological Review on “C.S. Lewis as Medieval and Renaissance Scholar,” as well a book review in Seventeenth-Century News on The Making of the English Gardener, 1560-1660 (Yale University Press).

Professor Engel’s Fifth Book is Published

2012-03-02T19:16:39Z

Engel's new book, ,Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe, uncovers the tell-tale presence of Renaissance allegory and baroque emblems in the works of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe.

Professor Engel will be presenting two papers abroad

2012-02-01T19:57:49Z

Professor William Engel will be presenting two papers abroad: "Locative Memory in The Winter's Tale," at the annual meeting of the Société Française Shakespeare in Paris during Spring Recess, and the other on “Poe and ‘the grandeur of old Rome’" at the Conversazioni seminar held this June in Florence.

Billy Collins Named 25th Aiken Taylor Award Winner

2011-11-22T20:28:49Z

Billy Collins will be honored with 2011 Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. Mr. Collins will receive the award at the University of the South on November 28–29th.

Professor Michael Has Article Published

2011-11-22T20:53:08Z

Professor Jennifer Michael has an article published in Blake / An Illustrated Quarterly.

English & Medieval Studies Major Has Paper Accepted to Kalamazoo

2011-09-23T16:25:21Z

Jordan Sharpe, C’13, will give a paper entitled, “Merlin’s Infancy as a Prophet and Politician in Prose Merlin” at the 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, MI. This is one of the largest medieval congresses in the world.

Review By Professor Engel Published

2011-09-23T14:24:55Z

Professor Engel published a review of the first properly edited version of Queen Elizabeth I's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy in The Journal of the International Boethius Society, and will be giving a paper on "Milton, Arminiansim, and Moby-Dick" at the upcoming 2011 Conference on John Milton at MTSU.

Professor Irvin has Chapter Published

2011-08-22T16:27:58Z

The duPont library has recently received the following book, John Gower, Trilingual poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition, which includes a chapter authored by Matthew Irvin, Assistant Professor of English and Chair of Medieval Studies. Professor Irvin's chapter is titled "Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis." In this essay, Irvin investigates rhetorical structures of inversion and subversion surrounding the allegorical figure of Genius in John Gower's 14th century Latin poem, Vox Clamantis. The essay is a revision of a paper given at the First International John Gower Society Congress, in 2008.

Accolades for Assistant Professor Kevin Wilson’s New Novel, “The Family Fang”

2012-03-19T15:33:42Z

Assistant Professor Kevin Wilson, who teaches courses on fiction and fiction-writing in Sewanee’s English Department, has published his first novel The Family Fang (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2011) to great acclaim. In The Family Fang conceptual artists Caleb and Camille Fang incorporate their children (whom they call “Child A” and “Child B”) into their bizarre and solipsistic creative world. Once grown, Annie and Buster must try to come to terms with their parents' damaging and wondrous legacy.

Sewanee Welcomes Young Writers

2011-09-06T18:19:34Z

Founded in 1994, the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference offers to high school students from all over the U.S. some of the resources brought to campus by the adult Sewanee Writers' Conference. In small workshops devoted to poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction, serious young writers are able to polish their craft with the help of instructors who are themselves writers of significant accomplishment, and to form friendships with like-minded peers. This year the conference runs from June 26 through July 9.

School of Letters Summer Session Begins

2011-06-24T14:18:22Z

The Sewanee School of Letters is an innovative summer Master’s Degree program in English and Creative Writing. The School of Letters enrolled its first students in 2006, granted its first degree in 2009, and last month granted 12 degrees.

Awards Bestowed on English Majors at Commencement

2011-08-15T19:00:34Z

The recipient of the Guerry Prize for Excellence in English was awarded to Elisa Faison. The Andrew Nelson Lytle Prize for Achievement in American Literature was awarded to Chris Poole. The Aiken Taylor Internship with the Sewanee Review was awarded to Jordan Hall. The Tennessee Williams Prize in Creative Writing was awarded to J. P. Grasser (for poetry) and Chris Poole (for fiction).

Five Students Achieve Honors in the Major

2011-09-06T18:17:26Z

The English Department celebrates that five students earned honors in the major this year: Aly Bolton, whose thesis, "'There's Something In't That Is Deceivable': Disguise, Chaucerian Allusion, and Romance Selfhood in Twelfth Night," was directed by Professor Macfie; Elisa Faison, whose thesis, "The Hat Trick: A Reading of Joyce's Ulysses," was directed by Professor Tucker; Jordan Hall, whose thesis, "Hamlet Again," was directed by Professor Richardson; Joshua King, whose thesis, "'We shall express our darker purpose': The 'Unseen Scene' in Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, was directed by Professor Macfie; Rebecca Mooradian, "Rendering the Pastoral: Time, Evanescence and Moral Enlightenment in Shakespeare's Green Worlds," was directed by Professor Macfie.

Congratulations to Caki Wilkinson

2011-04-11T20:59:39Z

The English Department woud like to announce the publication of a poetry collection by Caki Wilkinson, Creative Writing Programs Manager of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Circles Where the Head Should Be won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by esteemed poet J. D. McClatchy to be published by the University of North Texas Press.

Professor Engel Writes Book on Poetics

2011-03-23T22:58:00Z

William Engel's new book, Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe: Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition, will be published with Ashgate later this year. Professor Engel systematically explores the debt these famous American writers owed to baroque artists and allegorists such as Salvator Rosa and Francis Quarles.