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