Paula Feldman honored with Russell Research Award
Award recognizes Professor Feldman's groundbreaking contributions to the study of British Romanticism.
English Department Welcomes Liz Countryman and Seulghee Lee
The English Department is proud to announce two new faculty members: Dr. Liz Countryman and Dr. Seulghee Lee.
English Department Announces Teaching Award Winners
The English Department’s Teaching Award goes to two professors who, through their lectures and their mentoring, have undoubtedly made the intellectual lives of our USC students better, richer, and wiser.
English Department Congratulates Bilinski Fellows
Three Department of English Language and Literature doctoral candidates were awarded Bilinski Fellowships for the 2017-2018 year!
English Professor Recognized for Excellence in Digital Humanities Collaboration
Sara Schwebel's outstanding work on Island of the Blue Dolphins receives American Studies Association award and USC Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor award.
Nikky Finney honored with Ford Foundation Fellowship
Professor and poet Nikky Finney was one of 25 artists nationwide to receive the prestigious Art of Change fellowship from the Ford Foundation. The award supports creating powerful works that advance freedom, justice and inclusion.
Outstanding Undergraduates Recognized
The English Department is happy to announce the winners of the 2017 English Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships
David Greven Publishes Book on the Terminator Film Series
David Greven, Professor of English at USC, has published a book called Queering The Terminator: Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2017). The book covers all of the films in the Terminator film series, beginning with James Cameron's landmark 1984 original, and also the television series The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
David Shields has new book from the University of Chicago Press
David Shields new book brings the history of American food to life through chefs, caterers, and restaurateurs of the past.
New Publication on Visualizing Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joel Myerson publishes vital new resource for Emerson studies.
David Greven publishes new book on Hitchcock with Oxford University Press
David Greven, Professor of English, has published a new book, Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017).
David Greven's book Ghost Faces is a Lambda Literary Award Finalist
"Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity" (SUNY 2016) written by David Greven, Professor of English, is a Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award
Susan Courtney publishes "Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South"
This new book traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was dramatically shifting in the decades after World War II, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since.
Robert H. Elias Prize 2016-17 Is Awarded to English Department Doctoral Student Hannah Huber
Graduate student receives national recognition for her trailblazing study of Lily Bart, from Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth", as an example of the pathological restlessness caused by the late 19th-century American urban environment
Sara Schwebel publishes the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition" (UC Press, 2016)
Associate Professor of English has published the first ever critical edition of this novel.
USC English Department welcomes new faculty
Assistant Professor Qiandi Liu and Associate Professor Michael Dowdy have joined the USC Department of English Language and Literature
Gretchen Woertendyke publishes the book, "Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre"
In this broad-ranging study, Woertendyke reconfigures U.S. literary history as a product of hemispheric relations
Paula R. Feldman publishes "The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe"
Tighe, a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet, is best known for her epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, based on the classical legend of Psyche and Cupid
Nina Levine publishes "Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage"
This new book explores how the commercial theater operated as a medium as well as a model for urban experience in the burgeoning metropolis of early modern London.
Department of English sponsors 2016 International Comics Arts Forum
The Department of English Language and Literature is one of several University of South Carolina sponsors for the 18th annual International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) to be held at the Inn at USC Wyndham Garden on April 14-16, 2016.
David Greven publishes new book, "Ghost Faces"
David Greven, Professor of English, has published a new book on film and masculinity, Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity, with SUNY Press.
Associate Professor of English Anne W. Gulick publishes book on Postcolonial Studies
Dr. Anne W. Gulick, Associate Professor of English, has published a book, "Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic", with the Ohio State University Press.
David Cowart's latest book focuses on writers coming to prominence in recent decades
"The Tribe of Pyn" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015) receives warm endorsements from scholars around the world
English Department Graduate Student Named a Breakthrough Graduate Scholar
Jennifer Blevins, pursuing both an MFA and a Ph.D. in our program, receives award as an outstanding graduate student
Carolina Graduate Literature Society Announces Featured Speakers for Third Annual Conference
Shelly Streeby (UC San Diego) and John Muckelbauer (USC) to keynote the CGLS's Third Annual Graduate English Conference
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