Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give a poetry reading on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 12:30 p.m. at Utica College’s MacFarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, as part of the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series. More ...

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall has been named the 2010 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’ s most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. Hall’ s manuscript, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, was selected from a field of nearly 350 entries by esteemed author and film critic Renata Adler. The book will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press this fall.
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Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, delivered a lecture titled "The Joys of Dickens: Reading Great Expectations" on behalf of PEN at the Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Feb. 2. The preceding week, at the San Miguel Biblioteca, Briggs introduced David Lean's adaptation of Dickens' novel, a film ranked number five in the British Film Institute's list of the 100 best British films of the 20th century. More ...

Dean of Faculty Joseph R. Urgo has co-authored a new book, Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! (University Press of Mississippi, March, 2010), with Noel Polk, professor emeritus of English at Mississippi State University. More ...

Martin Walls, a poet and author of three books of poems, will give a poetry reading at Hamilton on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., in the Red Pit (KJ 127). The event, sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and hosted by the English Department, is free and open to the public. More ...

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall has published a story titled "By the Gleam of Her Teeth, She Will Light the Path Before Her" in the January issue of the online literary journal The Collagist. More ...

Aishwarya Lakshmi, assistant professor of English, has published an essay in an edited volume on postcolonialism. The essay titled “Re-presenting the Empire: the Picturesque Aesthetic in Satyajit Ray's ‘The Chess Players’” appears in Colonization or Globalization? Postcolonial Explorations of Imperial Expansion (Lexington Books). More ...

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Pacific Rim Modernisms, a volume of scholarly essays co-edited by Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steve Yao, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press. More ...

Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall published a story titled "For Dear Pearl, Who Drowned" in the latest issue of Water-Stone Review (vol. 12, 2009). More ...