English News Archive

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. 

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.

Congratulations to Paul Stasi on the publication of his second monograph, The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction, by Cambridge University Press.

Albany Public Library honors Professor and Creative Writing Director Ed Schwarzschild as a literary legend at the annual gala of the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library on October 1st.

Undergraduate students of the Department of English earned both University and Departmental Awards. Winners of the Undergraduate Awards include: Erik T. Jones, Paige Neal, Jordan Castaldo, Mairead Abbenda, Calvin Giudici, Lakota Levandowski, Kayla Carter, Kaya Carvajal, Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz, Linfeng Li, and Jewls Douge. See the complete awards list. (Pictured, L to R: Jewls Douge, Erik T Jones, Linfeng Li, Jordan Castaldo, Paige Neal, Lakota Levandowski, Mairead Abbenda, Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz)

English Professor Jeffrey Berman was recognized as the 2022 Torch Award Professor, along with three outstanding nominees: Associate Professor Rita Biswas, Lecturer Marcie Newton and Associate Professor Matthew Szdagis.

The English department's annual Research and Writing Conference will be April 20, 2022, followed by the Arch spring reading and reception.

You are cordially invited to the Department of English’s Undergraduate Research & Writing Conference on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m. in Humanities 354. Come hear students share their work from 2021-22. This will be an in-person event. Questions? Contact Prof. Rick Barney: [email protected]. See the full schedule.