This past week, we checked in with English department faculty and students to see what they\u2019ve accomplished this semester. We are so lucky to have such talented people in our department, and we have a long list of accolades this month! Take the time to congratulate your professors and peers in person! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leena Gowrisankaran \u201828 had an opinion piece<\/a> published in the Wall Street Journal! She wrote this piece for an assignment in Professor James Dawes\u2019 \u201cWriting to Change Minds\u201d course. Congrats, Leena!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Sarah Ghazal Ali\u2019s book, Theophanies<\/em><\/a> won the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award<\/a> for Poetry! Theophanies<\/em> is an incredible, well-awarded collection! Congrats, Professor Ali!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Penelope Geng was invited to give the Hudson Strode endowed lecture for the English department at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa! Professor Geng gave her talk, titled “The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn: New Archives for Researching Law, Drama, and Disability in Early Modern London\u201d on February 11, 2025. Congrats, Professor Geng!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Coral Lumbley has been named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ<\/a>! This membership includes a Fall residential research fellowship that will support work on Professor Lumbley\u2019s book project, The Color of Earth: Writing Sex, Race, and Species in Medieval England and Wales. <\/em>The Institute for Advanced Studies has supported the research of scholars since 1930, including Albert Einstein. Congrats, Professor Lumbley!<\/p>\n\n\n\n