English

We are located in Guilford House, a pleasant yellow brick building initially constructed in 1892 as a women’s dormitory. Ensconced in the square mile of cultural treasures and pursuits known as University Circle, the department offers classes and hosts events that reexamine tradition and reaffirm exploration and scrutiny.

Our students examine the interactions between writing and its contexts through coursework, collaborative enterprise, pedagogical training, creative works, and independent research.

Since 2005, members of the department have published seventeen books—fiction, analysis, criticism, and poetry— on diverse subjects: the language of depression, intellectual property rights, the history of print culture, the origins of the horror film genre.

Schedule of Events

February 10            

A reading by acclaimed poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to raise awareness of the Frederica Ward Memorial Fund. Guilford Parlor.Reception at 4:00. Reading and book-signing at 5:00 p.m.

February 17              

English Colloquium. Jim Sheeler will present "After Final Salute." Guilford Parlor. 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

February 27   

Popular Culture Panel: Alternate World. Casey Daniels, Marc Sumerak, Mara Purnhagen. Guilford Parlor. 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

March 23              

English Colloquium. Guilford Parlor. 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

March 30                   

Nora Morrison lectures on music and popular culture. Clark
206. 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

April 1                      

Jorie Graham—the rescheduled Poetry in the Museum event. Reid Gallery of Cleveland Museum of Art. 1:30 p.m. Event Resource Guide

April 16--20              

Writing Week.

April 20                     

Celebration of Student Writing. Adelbert Gym. 12:00 to 2:45 p.m.

April 20                     

Sadar Lecture. Daniel M. Gross (UC--Irvine). Lecture in Clark 309. 4:30 p.m. Reception in Clark 206. 5:30 p.m.

April 27                     

English Colloquium. Guilford Parlor. 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

May 1

Writing Program Awards Ceremony. Guilford Parlor. 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

 

 

Spring 2012

Course Descriptions

  • NEWS

  • Dissertation Seminar Featured art/sci's "A Meeting of Minds"

  • Faculty Members 2011 Books:

  • Christopher Flint
    The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.

  • James Kuzner
    Open Subjects: Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vunerability. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2011.

  • Visiting Assistant Professor

  • The Department of English, in collaboration with the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Departments of Theater and Modern Languages and Literatures and the programs in Ethnic Studies and World Literature, welcomes George Seremba as Visiting Assistant Professor.  Dr. Seremba (Ph.D., Trinity College, Dublin) is the recipient of a Creative Fusion award from the Cleveland Foundation.  An award-winning actor and playwright, Seremba has authored several plays. His notable Come Good Rain relives his political protests in Uganda and survival of a botched execution attempt by the military intelligence that led him to seek asylum in Kenya, then in Canada and Ireland.

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