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…
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Aracelis Girmay, Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English, received the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection for Green of All Heads (BOA Editions). PEN America…
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…
Nicholas Jenkins, associate professor in the Department of English and director of the Creative Writing Program, has been awarded a 2024 Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction for his…
Professor Ramón Saldívar has won the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)'s Research Institute Mentoring Award. The award "recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional…
Congratulations to Professor Nicholas Jenkins for winning the 2024 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism for his book, The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England! His book is…
2023 Award Winner Elaine Treharne The Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and professor, by courtesy, of German studies and of comparative literature. Treharne’s…
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Norman Foerster Prize, awarded to the best essay of the year in American Literature: “ Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?” by…
Ato Quayson, the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read the full article…
Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks…