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2023 Academy of American Poets Prize Winner – Caroline Stevens
Apr. 20, 2023—Congratulations to MFA third year student Caroline Stevens for winning the 2023 Academy of American Poets prize. Alumnus and poet Edgar Kunz, author of Fixer and Tap Out, was the judge for this year’s contest. Honorable mention goes to third year MFA student, John Mulcare.
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...
English Department’s Jeong-Oh Kim Wins Teaching Award
Apr. 12, 2023—Congratulations to Jeong-Oh Kim, the winner of this year’s Ellen Gregg Ingall’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching! The final selection for the award—which was endowed by the Ingalls Foundation of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965—is made by the Chancellor on the basis of nominations made by undergraduates of all schools and colleges. Jeong-Oh joins a...
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...
In Memoriam of Mark Wollaeger
Mar. 3, 2023—https://as.vanderbilt.edu/news/2023/03/01/wollaeger-professor-emeritus-and-modernist-scholar-has-died/
English Major Amelia Day releases EP for Immersion Project
Feb. 27, 2023—English major Amelia Day has released an EP as part of her Immersion project. With support from the Joe C. Davis Fund, which supports Immersion projects, she was able to work with a professional music producer in Nashville to produce her first EP Eastward of Eden. More info on the project can be read here....
Newly Published: Akshya Saxena’s Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Feb. 23, 2023—Congratulations to Akshya Saxena on the publication of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (University of California Press), a book for which she served as coeditor. The volume “introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes...
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy’s 2023 Poetry Contest Open
Feb. 15, 2023—The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy is open for poetry submissions from students currently enrolled in any Tennessee college or university. This is in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Department of English and MFA Program in Creative Writing. Submissions are due by midnight CT on March 15, 2023. More info can be found here.
Lydia Conklin – PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist
Feb. 6, 2023—Congratulations to Assistant Professor of English, Lydia Conklin for being a finalist for one of the Pen America Literary Awards. The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize is presented to an author whose debut collection of short stories represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise for future work. More info on the awards can be found...
VU Students Invited to Submit for the 2023 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Feb. 1, 2023—The Vanderbilt English and Creative Writing Department is happy to announce that submissions are open for the 2023 Academy of American Poets’ “Student Poetry Prize.” Please follow the guidelines from the flyer below and submit up to three poems to rene.colehour@vanderbilt.edu by March 1, 2023. Click here to download a printable PDF copy of the...