Please join us tomorrow, February 10th at 1:30-2:30 in Rosenwald 405 for our Faculty Research Symposium! Tim Harrison, Benjamin Saltzman, and Lina Ferreira will all be talking briefly about their research on leave, followed by Snail Thai!

Congrats (again!) to Rachel Galvin on her grant from UChicago Franke Inst! Galvin will be conducting interviews with poets, editors, and literary leaders in both the US and in Latin America, ending in a symposium on Latinx literary studies. Bookmarks by La Impresora, Puerto Rico

Thank you! Excited for this & grateful for the crucial support from UChicago Franke Inst! 📙📙📙 Beautiful bookmarks below by the brilliant Puerto Rican press La Impresora cargocollective.com #poetry #poesía

This Valentine's Day, come by our lending library (Walker 413) for a free date with a book!

Happening tomorrow! Come by and support your peers at PhD Research Symposium this Friday, Feb 17th, from 2pm to 6pm in Rosenwald 405. Reception to follow!

We are delighted that Ukrainian scholar, writer, and award-winning translator Oksana Maksymchuk will be joining the English Department as a Visiting Lecturer in 2023-2024! Read Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine here: loom.ly/VopXu2g

Our 2023 Carpenter Lectures are next week with guest speaker Fred Moten! Prof Moten will be discussing "The case of blackness: anthology, sociology, echomusecology," with a lecture on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 4:30 PM in Swift Lecture Hall. Can't wait to see you there!

Join Fred Moten tonight at 4:30 PM for the first lecture in our weeklong Carpenter Series! Tonight's event will take place at 4:30 PM in Swift Lecture Hall, with a reception to follow.

Thanks to everyone who showed up on Monday for the first of our Carpenter lectures! Tonight Fred Moten is speaking again (in Swift Lecture Hall at 4:30 PM.) Hope to see you all there for another fantastic evening!

Tonight is our final Carpenter Lecture! Roll up tonight at 4:30 PM (still in Swift Lecture Hall!) for your last chance to join what have been amazing lectures with Fred Moten!

Check out Rachel Galvin's translation featured in The The Guardian. Poem of the week: The Bin-Men Go on Strike by Raymond Queneau theguardian.com/books/2023/apr…

Congrats to Edgar Garcia and Timothy Harrison for being featured in University of Chicago News. Read all about their experimental course comparing Maya, European stories of creation here: news.uchicago.edu/story/experime…

Professor Noémie Ndiaye has earned numerous awards for her most recent book, "Scripts of Blackness": rll.uchicago.edu/news/noemie-nd…

The haunting power of Edgar Allan Poe | University of Chicago News news.uchicago.edu/story/haunting…

Modern Language Association to honor W. J. T. Mitchell with Lifetime Scholarly Achievement award. Read about it --> University of Chicago News news.uchicago.edu/story/modern-l…

Congratulations to all of the winners of MLA publication prizes! Join us in celebrating the prizewinners at the #mla24 Awards Ceremony in Philadelphia on Friday, 5 January at 7:15 p.m. ET. mla.org/Resources/Care…

Congratulations to Humanities scholars Noémie Ndiaye @NdiayeNoemie and Maria Anna Mariani, who will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and for Italian Studies, respectively, from the Modern Language Association.

Congratulations to English Language and Literature scholar Tina Post, who received the Best Book Prize for her book, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression," from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Learn more. >>

UChicago scholar receives ASAP Best Book Prize for 'Deadpan' | University of Chicago News news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago…

Congratulations to Noémie Ndiaye! Her book Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (2022) receives MLA's Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (MLA News)