News & Announcements
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Graduate student's book named one of best poetry books of 2024
Congratulations to Lindsey Webb! Her book /Plat/ was just named one of the best poetry books of 2024 by The New York Times. Reviewer Elisa Gabbert praises Plat's "fascinating spatial sensibility" and architectural thinking, musing, "I keep returning to these pages, with their little blocks of language like small rooms, to pass again through their estrangement."
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Paisley Rekdal Publishes New Book
Rekdal's new book, titled Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem—including its diction, form, imagery, and rhythm—and construct an interpretation of its meaning. Using guided close readings and nearly 40 creative and critical “experiments,” this book shows how a poem takes shape through the intersection of all its lyric elements. Drawing on the work of poets from William Shakespeare to Jericho Brown, Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens reveals how to read and write critically, and how to appreciate—and achieve—the exhilarating craft of poetry.
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Congratulations to graduate student, Lindsey Webb!
Lindsey had her piece Plat reviewed in the LA Book Reviewer on Oct. 28, 2024. Click here to see the full review.
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London Seminar in Literature and Culture
The London Seminar in Literature & Culture offers students an unparalleled opportunity to immerse themselves in the rich history and culture of one of the world's most iconic cities. Led by esteemed faculty members from the Department of English, the program combines rigorous academic study with hands-on cultural exploration.
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English Professor and Tanner Director, Scott Black, pens editorial in The Salt Lake Tribune
Tanner Humanities Center Director and English professor, Scott Black, along with Associate Director, Robert Carson published an opinion piece in the Salt Lake Tribune commenting on diverse literature.
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Congratulations to Graduate Student, Kieron Walquist
Congratulations to graduate student Kieron Walquist, winner of the 2024 National Poetry Series Competition for his poem, Our Hands Hold Violence!
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Researchers Awarded Funding for NEH Summer Institute
Elizabeth Callaway, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, and Rebekah Cummings, MLIS, Director of Digital Matters at the Marriott Library, have received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to hold a three-week Summer Institute for Higher Education at the University of Utah.
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Congratulations to Prof. Jackie Osherow, who recently published her poem, “Sighting,” in the August 2024 issue of The New Yorker!
Read her poem in The New Yorker.
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Erin O'Luanaigh wins award for "Best Graduate Student Paper"
Congratulations to Erin O’Luanaigh, PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry), who delivered a paper at the XXIX International James Joyce Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, 14-19 June 2024 titled “ ‘Where there is a reconciliation, there must have been first a sundering’: Reading Ulysses as a Cavellian Comedy of Remarriage.” At the Symposium banquet, the selection committee announced that Erin’s paper had won the prize for “Best Graduate Student Paper” at this year’s symposium.
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Lindsey Drager awarded the Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities
Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities recognizes one College of Humanities faculty member and/or graduate student teacher each year. Congratulations Lindsey!
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Vincent Cheng awarded The Calvin S. and JeNeal N. Hatch Prize in Teaching
The Calvin S. and JeNeal N. Hatch Prize in Teaching is provided by an endowment given to the University of Utah by Mr. and Mrs. Hatch. The purpose of the prize is to recognize an outstanding teacher at the University of Utah and to “make a contribution to teaching, the dissemination of knowledge, and to improve our ability to communicate with each other.” Congratulations Vincent!
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Paisley Rekdal's inclusion in NPR's Books We Love in 2023
Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for being included in NPR’s list of “Books We Love 2023" in the “Seriously Great Writing” section.
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Craig Dworkin awarded the Robert A. Goldberg Endowed Faculty Prize in Humaninites
Robert A. Goldberg Endowed Faculty Prize in Humanities recognizes faculty whose record in teaching and research reflects high merit and provides a stipend to support the faculty member’s ongoing projects. This award honors Goldberg’s forty-year career as an inspiring teacher, devoted mentor of countless graduate students, a prominent scholar of American political history and, for thirteen years, director of the Tanner Humanities Center.