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.
Recent News
Elaine Treharne has been awarded a 2021-2022 Clayman Institute for Gender Research Fellowship, for her project ‘Reinscribing Women Writers, 500-1500’. This new research project addresses the difficult issue of discovering women scribes in Northern Europe in the medieval period, asking where they are, and how they can be traced more effectively...
Our own Jessica Jordan is the 2021 winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. She is the only student from Stanford to have won the NCBCC, congratulations Jessica!
There will be a ceremony at the Library of Congress virtually on October 15th at 3pm EST/12pm PST.
Please register if you are interested in attending.
The...
The Old Globe Theater has adapted Roanne Kantor's 2015 translation of a book of short stories by the Argentinian author Juan José Saer into a zoom performance called Anonymous Biography . Professor Kantor worked as a consultant for the show.
Upcoming Events
October
22
Date
Fri October 22nd 2021, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location
1075 Curtis Street
Feldman's Books hosts its first public event on October 22, 7pm in their new location at 1075 Curtis Street. Poets Beverley Bie…
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.
