English News Archive

A new online, open access, peer-reviewed journal guided by doctoral students and devoted to translation studies is capturing worldwide attention less than a month after its release.

Please celebrate the launching of our Living in Languages Journal -- an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to Translation Studies. As a multilingual and interdisciplinary publication—a collaboration between the English and the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Departments at the University at Albany—translation is understood without delineation: traversing borders, disciplines, and mediums. The Editorial Board is constituted by doctoral students from ENG and LLC with Andrew Brooks as Senior Editor. Cover by Sarah Zahed.

Maggie O'Connor '21 had an excerpt of her Honors thesis published in Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society. Read the excerpt from Performing American Eugenics.

UAlbany's Barzakh draws writers and visual artists from around the world, and the world is paying attention.

UAlbany and RPI bring together three young writers to talk about channeling the pandemic's woes into art

Three English majors have been selected as recipients of the 2020-2021 Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research at the University at Albany: Rebecca Wolanski for her project “Play and Pastiche: Internet Memes as Postmodern Reinvention,” Margaret O'Connor for "Performing American Eugenics," and Deborah Brannan for “Wilde Theology: The Theological Underpinnings of Oscar Wilde.” The Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research recognizes undergraduate research and scholarship.  Recipients of the Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research are encouraged to present their award winning research projects at the 18th Annual Student Conference, held virtually this year, hosted by CURCE on Friday, April 23.

Thomas Bass reflects on the decade anniversary of Fukushima's nuclear disaster – just a few weeks short of Japan hosting the Olympics.

Professor Erica Fretwell's, "Dickinson Variations," reflections on the Dickinson television series, has been published on Avidly, a channel of the LA Review of Books.