News & Events

  • Annual William W. Cook Lecture • April 21, 2016

    The English department at Dartmouth presents the annual William W. Cook lecture Afro-Pessimism & the
    Paradox of Affirmation    , Thursday, April 21, 4:00PM, Sanborn House.

  • Cynthia Huntington Wins Guggenheim Award

    Cynthia Huntington, a professor of English and creative writing, and Darrin McMahon, the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor in the Department of history, have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim fellowships.  Click here.

  • Call for Creative Writing Prize Submissions

    The 2017 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony will be in Sanborn Library at 4:30 PM on May 11, 2017.

    SUBMISSION DETAILS

    • The deadline for submissions is April 13, 2017.
    • Please use a cover sheet to indicate your name, your entry titles, and the prizes for which you would like your work considered.
    • Drop off your submissions in 201 Sanborn (the Shakespeare Room) any time before the deadline.
    • Fiction and creative...
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  • Modernisms: A Conference

    The Dartmouth College English Department Presents

    MODERNISMS: A CONFERENCE
    April 7 & 8, 2016

    The conference will bring together scholars working with a range of concepts of modernism and diverse approaches to modernist works. Papers will address modernism in its political and economic as well as aesthetic dimensions, and in its transnational configurations: concerned with literature and art as they work together...

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  • Majors Dinner

    English Department faculty and students enjoy a dinner together in Sanborn Library.

  • American Renaissance edX

    Professors Donald Pease and James Dobson's winter term course, "The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century ," is available to all. For more…Dartmouth Now

  • Department of English | Faculty
    Visiting lecturer in English, Vievee Francis, Nominated for PEN Award

    Dartmouth Now

  • Salman Rushdie Visits the English Department

     

    Author Salman Rushdie spent over an hour in Sanborn Library discussing the art of creative writing with students during his visit to Dartmouth. Lindsay MacMillan ’16, a student in Professor O’Malley’s senior fiction workshop, called Rushdie’s visit “an incredible opportunity.” For more…http://now.dartmouth.edu/2015/10/salman-rushdie-calls-return-magic-fiction

     

  • Eco Criticism Conference

    Tobias Menely, UC Davis, will present, "Earth's Energy: The Rise of Coal and the Dissolution of Form."

    Gillen D'Arcy Wood, University of Illinois, will present, "Writing Deep Time: Poe, the Anthropocene, and the Tri-Nation Antarctic Voyages, 1838-43."

    Margaret Ronda, UC Davis, will present, "A rescue that comes too late: Ecopoetics and the Matter of Obsolescence."

    Sponsored by the Department of English

  • Welcome New Faculty

     

    I teach and write about 20th and 21st century hemispheric literature, photography, and popular culture, particularly in relation to histories of US imperialism, racial capitalism, gender and sexuality, and US and Latin American social movements. My current book project, The Making of the Affective Turn, is a literary and cultural history of the transition to neoliberalism in the Americas in the 1980s.

    Patricia Stuelke

    Recent Publications

    “The Queer...

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