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News Stories by Date

• 2024

  • April

    • Recent Faculty Activity
    • Recent Graduate Student Activity
    • February Events Explore the Public Humanities
    • Undergraduate Victoria Blake Wins American Folklore Society’s William A. Wilson Prize
    • Graduate Students’ Co-Authored Papers Appear in Composition Forum
    • Space City Medievalism: Reimagining the Middle Ages’ Legacy
    • Unsung Masters 2024: Recovering the Work of Black Arts Poet Tom Postell

• 2023

  • November

    • Recent Student Activity
    • Recent Faculty Activity
    • Department Translators Shine at International Translation Day Celebration
    • UH Folklorist Dr. Carl Lindahl Honored at the University of Edinburgh
    • Graduate Student Marshall Woodward Investigates Met Cloisters’ Hidden Histories
    • Dr. Melanie Salome Displays Photographs in Mexico City Gallery

  • June

    • The English M.A., Reimagined

  • April

    • Glass Mountain Update: 2023 Boldface Conference Dates & Funding Opportunities
    • UH Creative Writing Program's Current Students and Alumni Publish Eight Stunning New Books
    • Undergraduate Kalena Holeman Reimagines Dantean Katabasis at Harvard University
    • Medieval Poesis Colloquium Day with Dr. Daniel Davies
    • Undergraduate Alissa Boxleitner Explores Ana Mendieta and Myriam Gurba

• 2022

  • December

    • Ph.D. student Ibrahim Badshah's essay featured in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

  • August

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Summer 2022

  • February

    • Dr. Lauren Zentz’s new book

  • January

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Spring 2022

• 2021

  • December

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Winter 2021

  • November

    • Dr. Zamora's anthology 'From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora'
    • Glass Mountain Volume 27 Launch Party
    • Glass Mountain Volume 27 Launch Party

  • October

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Fall 2021
    • Dr. Roberto Tejada awarded 2021 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
    • Faculty and student poems featured by the Academy of American Poets

  • September

    • francine j. harris wins National Book Critic’s Circle Award

  • August

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Summer 2021
    • Three undergraduate students featured in National Poetry Month’s Poet of the Day series from NCTE

  • July

    • English professor and alumni named 2021 honorees of The Texas Institute of Letters

  • January

    • Professor francine j. harris' poetry shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award

• 2020

  • December

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Winter 2020
    • Alumna Novuyo Rosa Tshuma wins prestigious 2020 Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship for Fiction

  • October

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Fall 2020
    • Alumnus Jericho Brown Wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection The Tradition

  • September

    • Alumnus Bryan Washington’s short story collection Lot Wins the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize

  • April

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Spring 2020

• 2019

  • November

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Fall 2019

  • March

    • FORWARD: the Newsletter of the Department of English - Spring 2019

• 2015

  • November

    • Associate Professor Hosam Aboul-Ela Unanimously Awarded Inaugural Arab-American Educational Foundation
    • Upcoming Lecture by Gayatri Spivak
    • Glass Mountain’s Write-A-Thon Raises $8,000
    • The Department of English hosts first-ever Welcome Back Reception
    • Associate Professor Hosam Aboul-Ela Unanimously Awarded Inaugural Arab-American Educational Foundation Dr.Hosam Aboul-Ela Unanimously Awarded Endowed Professorship in Arab Studies

  • October

    • English Department Hosts Orientation for New and Returning Graduate Students

  • March

    • 21st-Century Moore Conference, March 19-22, 2015

  • February

    • The UH English Department Welcomes Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak for Lecture

• 2014

  • November

    • 2014 Events

  • August

    • Welcomes New Faculty

  • April

    • Honors Day 2014

• 2013

  • May

    • Honors Day 2013

  • March

    • Retiring Faculty 2013
    • Coastal Plains Graduate Conference Program

• 2012

  • June

    • Staff Awards

• 2011

  • July

    • Duke Press publishes new book by Dr. Zamora | News in the Department of English | UH CLASS

  • May

    • Lorraine Stock recipient of the Bonnie Wheeler Summer Research Fellowship
    • Boldface: a conference for emerging writers set for May 23-28, 2011

  • April

    • New Paula Withers Clare Award | News in the Department of English | UH CLASS

  • February

    • Applications for Houston Writing Fellows now open | News in the Department of English | UH CLASS

• 2010

  • May

    • Rhetoric, Composition and Pedagogy is latest Ph.D. concentration | News in the Department of English | UH CLASS