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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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, Alice Staveley, along with Victoria Ding, Emily…
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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 book, The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's…