Department of English

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities and professor of English, has won the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for her book Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade. Given by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University, the prize celebrates works of original...

With A Tender Age, the prizewinning novelist tells the story of a Korean American immigrant at summer camp in 1976. At 3 years old, Chang-rae Lee, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor and professor of English in the School of Humanities and Sciences, moved to the United States from Korea with his mother and his sister to join his father, a...

A. Van Jordan has been selected as the latest recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize, awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.