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.
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Professor Ato Quayson with Professor Adam Johnson at Creative Writing Welcome Dinner
Recent News
Hot off the presses: a Special Forum on “Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the latest issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Stanford English professor & American Studies Director Shelley Fisher Fishkin co-edited the Special Forum with Tsuyoshi Ishihara in...
Dear CSN Community,
We are pleased to announce that the Center for the Study of the Novel’s podcast, CSN Café, can now be accessed on Apple podcasts, and full transcripts of our episodes can be found on the CSN website. Our newest episode, discussing Peter Boxall’s The Prosthetic Imagination, is available now!
This podcast captures...
Brown was a renowned scholar of the Venerable Bede and of Old English and Anglo-Latin literature.
George Hardin Brown, professor emeritus of English in the School of Humanities and Sciences and renowned medievalist, died November 6 in Sacramento, California. He was 90.
Brown, a leading scholar of early English and Anglo-Latin literary and...
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Thu February 10th 2022, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
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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.
