Department of English News Archive
Transformational Teaching Honored at 2024 Spark & Torch Awards
The Campus Center Board Room heard heartfelt speeches, rounds of applause, and even brought a few to tears at UAlbany's annual Spark and Torch Award ceremonies.
Eight UAlbany Students Win 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
Eight UAlbany students will be recognized Thursday with the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest award the State University of New York bestows upon a student.
2024 President’s Excellence Awards Conferred
At his annual Spring University Address, President Havidán Rodríguez announced the winners of the 2024 President’s Excellence Awards.
UAlbany Senior Appears in Lynn Nottagge’s ‘Sweat’ at theREP
UAlbany senior John Martinez Soliz is making his first professional acting debut as Oscar in the Lynn Nottage play, Sweat, which began its run at the Capital Repertory Theatre (theREP) in Albany on March 8 and will end this Sunday.
English Professor’s Book Recovers Poet-Activist Muriel Rukeyser’s Uncollected, Unpublished Prose
English Professor Eric Keenaghan's new book, The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose, was published in November by Cornell University Press and has been generating buzz among Rukeyser fans and those interested in American leftist, poetry and modernist literary studies.
Living in Languages Colloquium to Explore Themes of Translation
The Departments of English and Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at UAlbany will host their 6th annual Living in Languages Colloquium today and Wednesday, exploring themes related to language and translation.
Living in Languages Colloquium
You're invited to join the Departments of English and Languages, Literatures & Cultures for our Living in Languages Colloquium Feb 20-21, 2024 in Zoom. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Register here: https://forms.gle/3Tv9iwQFzPqDuSAUA.
English Instructors Almost Sweep the College of Arts and Sciences Annual Teaching Awards!
This semester, the English Department’s strong teaching record was recognized through three awards singling out three exceptional instructors: Professor Paul Stasi and two CAS graduate student instructors from English, Audrey Peterson-McCann and Eugene Pae.