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The National Research Council ranks our English PhD program among the best in the country.
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Our faculty and students participate in numerous individual and collaborative research projects.
Department News
Lillian Fairchild Award returns, honors five artists
Five artists are the latest recipients of the distinguished Lillian Fairchild Award, a longstanding honor bestowed to residents of the Rochester area for meaningful contributions to art and literature.
Continue ReadingPLUTZIK READING SERIES
Award-winning author closes series
Stephanie Powell Watts will join us for our final Plutzik Reading Series event of the semester on Wednesday, April 17 at 5pm in Hawkins-Carlson.
We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012) won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was named one of 2013’s Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine.
UPCOMING EVENT
Writer's Lounge meets weekly
Join us every Thursday from 5-7 p.m. in the Humanities Center Lounge for the Writer's Lounge.
Share and edit your own work, talk shop and catch up with fellow students and professors.
It is free and open to all. Refreshments are provided.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
A poet's meditation on loss, light and legacy
Following news of a close friend's illness, Jennifer Grotz, professor of English and an award-winning poet and translator, distilled her emotions and reflections into a poem titled “The Conversion of Paul," published in her latest collection, "Still Falling" (Graywolf Press, 2023).
126internships and research projects
In the last two years, undergraduates have completed 126 English Department honors theses, local and national internships, and independent research projects.
