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Stanford Text Technologies is directed by Elaine Treharne, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English.
This research enterprise undertakes ambitious and innovative research into the long history of TEXT from…
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Stanford undergraduate, Quyen Nguyen, interviewed Professor Tobias Wolff about vocation and morality as part of a course on public service at Stanford. The interview was published in Boston Review.
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Stanford English Professor Andrea Lunsford says today's writing instruction should teach students how to become better writers for social media and other interactive online environments.
Between LOLs, emoticons and 140-character rants, it…
David Garland Halliburton, professor emeritus of English, died June 2 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 80 years old.
A scholar, teacher and administrator, Halliburton not only published widely on literature and…
- Events
The Third Annual Poetry. Out. Loud. competition (POL3) brought crowds of eager listeners to Margaret Jacks Hall again this past May. Growing each year since its launch in 2012, POL has now become a department tradition that emphasizes poetry’s…