Department Of English
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Bhattacharya reads from ‘Good Girls Marry Doctors’ Feb. 15
Piyali Bhattacharya, writer in residence in English, and students from the Nashville School of the Arts will conduct a reading of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, an anthology edited by Bhattacharya, at Barnes & Noble Vanderbilt Wednesday, Feb. 15. Read MoreJan 31, 2017
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Arts and Science alumna is turning a love for literature into a career in art
Lucy Mensah, who graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 2016, is drawing on her humanities training and taking a path less traveled. Read MoreJan 24, 2017
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Ann Patchett leads off spring 2017 Vanderbilt Visiting Writers
Author Ann Patchett will read and discuss her latest novel, "Commonwealth," at the Central Library Jan. 26 as part of the Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series. Read MoreJan 9, 2017
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MFA graduate named NEA Creative Writing Fellow
Edgar Kunz, a 2015 graduate of Vanderbilt's MFA Program in Creative Writing, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in poetry for 2017. Read MoreDec 16, 2016
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Register now for Osher 2017 winter classes at Vanderbilt
The diverse classes offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt for winter 2017 include a look behind the scenes of 'Romeo and Juliet,' Perry Wallace's inspiring story, and steel drum band. Read MoreNov 21, 2016
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Kudos: Read about faculty and student awards and achievements
Read about the latest Vanderbilt University faculty and student awards and achievements. Read MoreSep 28, 2016
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Tichi’s stage play based on her ‘Jack London’ book
'The House That Jack Built," a play by Cecilia Tichi, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, will be produced at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California, Sept. 9-25. Read MoreSep 9, 2016
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Listen: Selected portraits of Nashville’s creative community focus of Curb Center exhibition
The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy will host a public art exhibition inspired by a recent book on some of Nashville's most innovative entrepreneurs. Read MoreAug 31, 2016
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Castro wins fellowship to study literature
A Mellon Fellowship has been awarded to Anne M. Castro from the English department. Read MoreJul 29, 2016
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English professor researches ‘tools’ of colorblind rhetoric
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to Assistant Professor of English Marzia Milazzo for her research on colorblindness as a global attempt to obscure the reality of racial inequality. Read MoreJun 16, 2016
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Curb Public Scholars develop evidence-based public policies
The "People's Guide to Nashville," an album of children's music with prosocial messaging, and the inaugural Accessibility Map-a-Thon at Vanderbilt are among projects created and implemented by the 2015-16 Curb Center Public Scholars. Read MoreMay 25, 2016
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Vanderbilt University honors 24 as emeriti faculty
Twenty-four retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 13, when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Read MoreMay 13, 2016
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Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning announces student prizes
The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning has announced this year’s recipients of its prizes for digital innovation by an undergraduate student and by a graduate or professional student. Read MoreMay 2, 2016
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Writers-in-residence impact, inspire first-year students
The Writers-in-Residence program at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons mixes students from Vanderbilt’s highly regarded MFA creative writing program with students from the university’s first-year living and learning community to explore fiction and poetry. Read MoreApr 29, 2016
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Vanderbilt poet awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Beth Bachmann, a Vanderbilt writer-in-residence who has published two poetry collections, has been selected from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants for a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Read MoreApr 9, 2016
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Sealy wins first faculty diversity award; five others recognized
The first winner of a Vanderbilt award to recognize faculty who contribute to diversity went to Linda Sealy of the School of Medicine. Read MoreMar 31, 2016
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Kudos: Colin Dayan in conversation with writer Philip Hoare during London book tour
Colin Dayan's new book "Dogs at the Edge of Life" was featured at the London Review Bookshop, where she recently held a conversation with award-winning writer Philip Hoare. Read MoreMar 17, 2016
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Register now for Vanderbilt Osher spring 2016 classes
Shakespeare, transitional justice in South Africa, the Nashville Ballet, and Judaism are among the diverse topics open to all adults 50 and older this spring through the Institute for Lifelong Learning at Vanderbilt. Read MoreMar 4, 2016
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Professor offers unsettling look at humanity with study of people and their dogs
Stories of relationships between dogs and people and actions surrounding those relationships are relayed by Colin Dayan in a new book calling for greater empathy and engagement across class and racial lines. Read MoreJan 7, 2016
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Tichi’s new play on Jack London to be unveiled at Neely Auditorium
English professor Cecelia Tichi's passionate interest and research about Jack London has led to not only a book, but also a new play that actors will present in a Nov. 20 reading at Neely Auditorium. Read MoreNov 18, 2015