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Class of 2023: Lucy Kim
May. 2, 2023—English PhD Student Lucy Kim was one of 28 students selected by Vanderbilt for a spotlight profile as part of Commencement 2023. Read a little about Lucy’s time at Vanderbilt here, and see all of the profiles here. Congrats to Lucy in all she has accomplished in her time here at Vanderbilt!
The Drake Lecture Series: Professor Kathryn Yusoff
Apr. 20, 2023—The Vanderbilt Department of English presents the Spring 2023 Drake Lecture on Apr. 21st at 3:15pm in the Main Library 4th Floor Community Room. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there! “Inhuman Memory” with Professor Kathryn Yusoff, visiting from Queen Mary University of London. If the earth...
The Stirling Lecture Series: Elleza Kelley
Mar. 27, 2023—The English Graduate Student Association presents the Spring 2023 Stirling Lecture: “Train Songs: An Echolocology”, a talk by Elleza Kelly, Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. This will be Friday, 3/31, at 1:30pm in Kissam C210. In this talk, Professor Kelley will present new work from her book project that grapples...
Fall 2022 Drake Lecture Series: Grant Farred
Sep. 19, 2022—The Vanderbilt Department of English presents the Fall 2022 Drake Lecture on Oct. 7th at 3:15pm in the Main Library 4th Floor Community Room. This event is free and open to the public. “Monstrous Hands: Thinking Martin Heidegger” with Professor Grant Farred, visiting from Cornell University. “The hand,” Heidegger insists, “is the instrument of thinking.” “The...
The Second Year Conference
Aug. 30, 2022—Join us on Friday, Sept. 23 from 10am – 1:30pm in Kissam C210 for the English Department’s annual Second Year Conference. This conference is a showcase of works by the 2nd-year PhD students, and this year will feature 3rd-year students as well. Lunch will be provided. Please REGISTER HERE, and reach out to Connor Abram...
Best Essay in American Literature 2021 Award Recipient
Jan. 11, 2022—Congratulations to Vanderbilt-Alumni Katherine Fusco (University of Nevada) on winning the American Literature Society’s 1921 Prize for the Best Essay in American Literature. The essay, “Techniques of Justice: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and the Problem of Visualizing the Race” written with Lynda C. Olman (University of Nevada) was in MELUS 46.3 in Fall 2021.