One of the founding departments of Stanford University in 1891, the English Department is the cornerstone of the humanities at Stanford. The pioneer faculty of English was an eclectic group of writers, comparativists, and literary scholars.
Views from the Department
Professor Ato Quayson with Professor Adam Johnson at Creative Writing Welcome Dinner
Recent News
From Library of America | February 10, 2023
Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”
Long before there was BookTok, there was bibliomania, a consuming hunger among nineteenth-century American readers to amass, pore over, and cherish textual objects and commune with beloved...
Winter-Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Internships at SCALAA (Stanford Computational Approaches Literary and Archival Analysis)
Are you interested in gaining academic research experience this year? Then why not apply for an undergraduate Research Internship in the Department of English, collaborating with faculty to pursue original...
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848
Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New...
Upcoming Events
May
11
Date
Thu May 11th 2023, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location
Terrace Room (rm. 426), Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg 460
450 Jane Stanford Way, Bldg 460, Stanford, CA 94305
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450 Jane Stanford Way, Bldg 460, Stanford, CA 94305
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Methods Café is a dialogue series in the English Department that pairs faculty members in a conversation about literary theory. Primary texts are…
May
19
Date
Fri May 19th 2023, 12:00am - Sat May 20th 2023, 12:00am
Location
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (460-426)
Department Bookshelf
English remains a top-ranked department nationally because of the strength and variety of our faculty publications, both in scholarly research and creative writing. Browse the Bookshelf to explore our many interests.
