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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Shelley Fisher Fishkin just published an article, "Editing for the Ear: What I Learned Producing My Own Audiobook" in the international journal, Publishing Perspectives.
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…
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…
Leading a team of Stanford undergraduates, including three English majors, in a multi-year effort to transcribe, data visualize, and historically contextualize Virginia Woolf’s book sales records…
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…
Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade . by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, will be published April 15th. by Yale University Press, in their “Black Lives” book series (edited by David…
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…