Department of English

The Modern Language Association of America has announced the winner of the sixteenth Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition. The prize will be presented to Ben Wiebracht, English instructor at Stanford Online High School, and students Madeline Ayer, Aidan Bekendam, Jacob Bryant, Ferris Haukom, Mayuko Karakawa, Edithe Lam, Sabine...

The English department launched a new initiative at the beginning of the 2025-26 academic year, called the Critical-Creative Studies Initiative (CCSI). Peggy Phelan will serve as the CCSI Director during its pilot phase. In the interview below, Peggy Phelan and Gavin Jones, Chair of the English Department, discuss this exciting new initiative. Ques...

In The Wayfinder, award-winning author and Stanford Professor Adam Johnson draws on the cultures and landscapes of the Polynesian islands to tell a story set 1,000 years in the past – with timely echoes for today.The new novel from Adam Johnson, the Phil and Penny Knight Professor of Creative Writing and professor of English in the School of...