The Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, and the Hyla Brook Poets today announced that the winner of the 10th Annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry is Jennifer Davis Michael, for her poem, "Forty Trochees."
Sewanee English major Claire Crow (C'21) recently won the Proxime Accessit prize for her dissertation on women in the literature of the Middle Ages while studying abroad at Oxford University this spring.
The English department's own Bill Engel will be featured on NPR's "Academic Minute"
Professional actors will read from Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s play, Looks Like Pretty, on Sunday, Feb. 23rd, at 4 P.M. in the Tennessee Williams Center.
Our own Dr. Jennifer Michael will read from her latest published collection of poetry, "Let Me Let Go" in downtown Sewanee at The Blue Chair.
Professor Engel just signed a contract with Cambridge University Press for a collection of essays on Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England. He also will appear on a new NPR show called "The Academic Minute".
English majors Bramwell Atkins and Claire Crow enjoy a visit to the Cotswolds while studying at Oxford this Spring 2020 semester.
The School of Letters is pleased to announce a Post-Baccalaureate Tennessee Williams Fellow position for a Sewanee graduate, thanks to generous funding from the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund.
The American Shakespeare Center’s 2020 National Tour comes the University of the South from February 6-February 8, 2020.
On January 10, 2020, Professor Engel represented Sewanee at the Société Française Shakespeare in Paris, with a paper on “The Tug of Memory: Shakespearean Backstories.”
Bramwell Atkins, a current junior double majoring in English and Classics, has been awarded a Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Study Abroad Research Grant to support his independent research while abroad in Oxford, England next year.
Hastings Hensel will give a poetry reading in Gailor Auditorium on Thursday, December 5, at 5 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
On November 22, 2019, Sewanee’s English department celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Victorian author George Eliot.
Sewanee Professor of English and acclaimed author Kevin Wilson has just published a new novel, "Nothing to See Here".
This week Sewanee graduate and author Una Mannion, C’87, signed a major publishing deal with Faber & Faber.
On Monday, November 11, 2019, Atlanta-based attorney Sarah Owings C’03 spoke to students about her work on the frontlines of immigration law and practice.
Sewanee English Professor and Department Chair Jennifer Michael has a new poetry chapbook now available for sale!
Sewanee Professor of English Virginia Craighill has published three poems in the most recent issue of THINK: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays.
