Tag: English Department
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Buffeted by unending tides of grief
Namwali Serpell’s novel explores reality, memory, and race, class of broken family after the death of a child.
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Three faculty named Harvard College Professors
Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ju Yon Kim, and James Mickens have been named Harvard College Professors. The professorships provide support for professional development.
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A homecoming
Award-winning fiction writer Namwali Serpell returns to Harvard as professor of English.
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Chronicling an American age of art, thought, and global engagement
Jorie Graham and Louis Menand discuss Menand’s new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” his influences, and writing style.
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Storytelling as a global force
English Professor Martin Puchner talks to the Gazette about his new book “The Written World,” about how literature shaped civilization.
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Stephanie Burt opens up
The Harvard poet discusses new book of poetry, life as a trans woman, and settling in as as co-poetry editor of The Nation.
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Eden as a storyteller’s paradise
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.”
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Poetry unbound
Harvard Professor Elisa New’s Gen Ed course, “Poetry in America,” attracts students from across disciplines.
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Even in ‘Hamilton,’ a glimpse of mediocrity
New research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, highlights the starring role of “decidedly average” in the history of art.
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A monstrous passion
As part of our humanities series, Charles Hyman ’19 talks about finding intellectual life in the study of dead languages.
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Labors of love for scholar at heart
Leo Damrosch has the relaxed air of a man six years into retirement. Since adding emeritus to his title as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Damrosch has won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013 for “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World.” More recently, “Eternity’s Sunrise: The…
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Happy to be puzzled
For the English Department’s Gwen Urdang-Brown, crossword puzzles have always been a family affair. The first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World newspaper on Dec. 21, 1913. (Dec. 21 is now recognized as Crossword Puzzle Day.)
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Jorie Graham wins Forward Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham has become the first American woman ever to win one of the U.K.’s most prestigious poetry accolades, the Forward Prize for best collection.
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Interesting readers, as well as writers
English Professor Leah Price focuses on leading authors and the titles they love in “Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books.”
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NHC names Jason Stevens a fellow
Harvard Assistant Professor of English Jason Stevens has been named a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year.
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What comes after
Joanna Klink, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in the English Department, is out with a new book chronicling a failed relationship.
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The Art of the Sonnet
Stephen Burt, an English professor and renowned poet and critic, and co-writer David Mikics have collected 100 sonnets — the longest-lived poetic form — and offer their insights on each 14-line masterpiece.