English News Archive

For her achievements both as a writer of fiction and literary and cultural criticism Lynne Tillman was named last week the winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Katherine Anne Porter Award, “to a prose writer whose achievements and dedication to the literary profession have been demonstrated.”

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the newly revived English Department newsletter!

Edward Schwarzschild was interviewed by Brian Whalen. Their discussion of influence and other aspects of writing went live February 24, 2022, and is available on Lit Pub.

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