Creative Writing Professor Dr. Eric Schlich wins 2025 Stonewall Honor Book Award from the American Library Association
Dr. Eric Schlich's novel Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife has been awarded the American Library Association's 2025 Stonewall Honor book award! Click here to read more about this award, and click here for more information on Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife.
Applied Linguistics Professors Awarded $2.6 Million Grant for Professional Development of English Learners
Drs. Rebecca Adams and Emily Thrush, English Department, have been awarded a grant under the U.S. Department of Education's National Professional Development program. The project will receive $2.6 million over the next five years, beginning with $503,580 in the 2024-2025 academic year. These funds will be used to increase the number of licensed ESL teachers in local school systems. Huge congratulations to Drs. Adams and Thrush for this amazing achievement and for their outstanding work for our Applied Linguistics and TESOL students! You can read more about the project, Ensuring Success for English Learners, here.
Spring 2025
University of Memphis English Graduate Organization Conference - April 25th & 26th
Keynote & Roundtable: Dr. John Edgar Browning (Savannah College of Art and Design) and Dr. Stephanie A.
Graves (Vanderbilt University) will be joining the University of Memphis English Graduate
Organization (UMEGO) for a conference keynote and roundtable event on Friday, April
25th at 6pm in the University Center Theatre. This event is co-sponsored by the Deb
Talbot Roundtable Fund and the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.
Conference: UMEGO's Learning from Fear Conference will be held in Patterson Hall on April 26th. Proposal submission is now closed, more information on each panel and presenter can be found here.
Dr. Andrew Donnelly Book Launch at novel. - April 28th
Dr. Andrew Donnelly will be celebrating the launch of his book, Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era, at novel. bookstore on April 28th beginning at 6pm. You can read more info about this event on novel's website here. Dr. Donnelly will be talking about his book in conversation with Dr. Eva Payne, a history professor at the University of Mississippi. If you can join us, please RSVP with novel. here!
English Department Award Ceremony - May 1st
D Join us on May 1st from 11am-12pm to celebrate this year's English Department award
winners! The ceremony will be held in Patterson Hall 456, with a luncheon to follow
in Patterson Hall 403. Click here to see the list of 2025 award winners!