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The Martin Museum of Art collaborated with Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black, the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching, and the students of PWR 3385 to present Word + Image: A Series of Ekphrastic Essays in Conversation with Art from the Martin Museum. Students have written essays in response to a work of art, and both the writings and chosen works will be on view May 11 - 23, 2021 in the Museum.

Dustin Stewart, alumnus of the Baylor English Department and assistant professor of English at Columbia University, has won the Louis A. Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) for his book entitled Futures of Enlightenment Poetry.

The Phoenix is the English department journal for undergraduate student creative work. The 2021 edition was edited by Nicole Salama and Samantha Crouch. At the launch party, Top Submission Awards were given to Emily Drabek for her poem “Daisy,” Natalie Glasper for her story “The Tea Rose Hotel Gets Integrated,” and Melissa Leon Norena for her watercolor “A Jazzy Evening.” Faculty advisors for the magazine are Arna Hemenway, Mark Olsen, Chloe Honum, and Kevin Gardner. Congratulations to the editorial board, all of the student contributors, and the award-winners!

"Greg Garrett, Ph.D., professor of English at Baylor University, has been awarded a $488,000 grant by the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation to study those dynamics and illuminate the ways various forms of American culture have promoted racial myths through the centuries, influencing how people perceive others of different races." Click to read more from Baylor Media and Public Relations

Four PhD graduates in the English Department have been selected as Postdoctoral Fellows in the English Department and Honors College. Congratulations!

On Friday, April 16, at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Joshua King, associate professor of English and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies, will virtually present the 2021 Browning Day lecture, "Lords of the Earth? Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Christ's Body in the Age of Human Domination."

Dr. Josh King has been invited to give a lecture via Zoom at the University of Cambridge on March 9, 2021. His talk is for the Cambridge 19th-Century Graduate Seminar, which invites scholars from around the world to address Cambridge graduate students and faculty on subjects of their choosing. His lecture relates to his new book project and is titled “ ‘I all-creation sing’: Cosmic Liturgy in Christina Rossetti.”

Last month, Dr. Sarah Ford delivered a virtual lecture on "Eudora Welty's Vision" to the American Women Writers National Museum. This lecture has just been picked up by the American History Project at CSPAN3 and will air on March 15th, 2021.

Dr. Chloe Honum has been invited to give an international keynote presentation for the Comparative English Studies Virtual Graduate Student Conference at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. This conference will take place from February 16 - 18 and is titled "Compare, Contrast, Transform: Identity, Mediality, and the Politics of Language." Dr. Honum's lecture will be on dreams and revelations in contemporary poetry.

Check out this article about three Baylor English professors from Baylor's Arts & Sciences Magazine!

Feeling stressed and lost about what to do after graduation? Join us for a workshop designed for Humanities students just like you. Food will be provided.

Jennifer Cognard-Black, Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and one of three finalists for Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, will be giving a public lecture Monday, October 21st at 3:30 p.m. in McLean Foyer of Meditation, Armstrong Browning Library. The title of her presentation is "Just Food: Social Justice and the Literatures of Food."

Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, who earned her Ph.D. in English at Baylor in 2009, has been named the winner of the 2019 Hiett Prize by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The Hiett Prize honors young humanities scholars whose work shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture. You can read more at the Hiett Prize web site. Jessica is currently associate professor of English at John Brown University.

Professor Arna Hemenway has published a new short story, “Wolves of Karelia,” in the August issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The print issue is out now, or you can read his story online at the Atlantic website. Congratulations, Arna, on this fantastic achievement!

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Ford, who has been named a 2019 Centennial Professor! The Centennial Professors Award, which was created by the Baylor Class of 1945, provides two tenured faculty members with $5,000 for research projects. Dr. Ford will be conducting research this summer in the Eudora Welty Collection, which is housed in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, Mississippi.

Congratulations to Baylor English alumnus Dean Rader (BA ’89), who has just received a Guggenheim Fellowship! Following his Baylor graduation, Dean earned a Ph.D. in English at SUNY Binghamton and is currently Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. He is a widely published poet and a scholar in Indigenous American Studies. He has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most prestigious and competitive fellowships in North America, to work on a new poetry collection. For more information, visit the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation web site or Dean's personal web site.

Dr. Chloe Honum, assistant professor of creative writing, is the winner of the 2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, New Zealand’s most prestigious writing fellowship. It's a national literary award offering published New Zealand writers, based both locally and internationally, the opportunity to focus on their craft full-time through a stipend and tenure at the Sargeson Centre in Auckland. Congratulations, Dr. Honum!