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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 Michele Elam, published in volume 95, issue 2. Read…

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Louise Glück, former Mohr Visiting Poet at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences' Creating Writing Program, died October 13.

Read the full article on The Stanford Daily.

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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 on Stanford Report.

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From Library of America | February 10, 2023

Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”

Long before there was BookTok, there was bibliomania, a consuming…

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Winter-Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Internships at SCALAA (Stanford Computational Approaches Literary and Archival Analysis)