Department of English News Archive
Interdisciplinary Labs Project Gives Humanities a Boost at UAlbany
The Humanities Labs Project is an initiative of UAlbany’s Center for the Humanities, Arts and Technosciences (CHATS) and aims to revive interest in the humanities with hands-on, practical programming that can demonstrate its reach beyond the classroom.
Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications
The latest on University at Albany faculty and staff receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.
UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley
A University at Albany professor has discovered the earliest known full-length elegy by famed poet Phillis Wheatley (Peters), widely regarded as the first Black person, enslaved person and one of the first women in America to publish a book of poetry.
Announcing a New Writing Concentration for English Majors
Starting in Fall 2022, English majors will be able to enroll in a new Writing Concentration. The concentration will be officially recognized on students’ transcripts, thus allowing graduates to announce their extensive work in writing to potential employers and graduate schools.
Professor Wendy Roberts awarded 2022 Early American Literature Book Prize
Congratulations to Professor Wendy Roberts for her receipt of the 2022 Early American Literature Book Prize for her monograph Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism (2020). Early American Literature is the most prestigious academic journal in Professor Roberts' field.
Professor Kir Kuiken awarded the 2022 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize.
Congratulations to Professor Kir Kuiken, whose essay "Unavowed Community in Kleist's Betrothal in San Domingo" has been awarded the 2022 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize.
'On Posthuman War' Traces Expansion of Military Violence Into Ordinary Life
UAlbany English Professor Mike Hill is out with a new book titled, On Posthuman War: Computation and Military Violence, which traces the unseen expansion of military violence in recent decades from traditional battlefronts to the concept of the human being itself. Published by the University of Minnesota Press in August, the book draws on counterinsurgency field manuals, tactical manifestos, data-driven military theory and war archives to explore how human-focused concepts such as identity, culture and cognition have been weaponized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Professor Paul Stasi's New Book
Congratulations to Paul Stasi on the publication of his second monograph, The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction, by Cambridge University Press.