English Department News

Two English faculty named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows

Keith Anthony — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:13:37 +0000

Elizabeth Goodstein, Professor of English and the Liberal Arts, and Heather Christle, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, have been named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows! The prestigious Fellowships are awarded “based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.” From the Guggenheim Foundation’s announcement: “Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s …

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Sami Schalk to give 2026 Kemp Malone Lecture

Keith Anthony — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:44:35 +0000

Sami Schalk (Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin) will present “Studying Pleasure Spaces for Multiply Marginalized People” on Thursday, April 2nd, from 1-3 pm in White Hall 208. Sponsored by GEAC (Graduate English Advisory Committee), the Kemp Malone Lecture Series brings in renowned scholars to discuss their advanced research and engage with …

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Tayari Jones featured in The New York Times

Keith Anthony — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:31:39 +0000

Novelist and professor Tayari Jones was recently featured in The New York Times, talking about her writing process, her return to Atlanta, and her latest novel Kin. Jones, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, is the previous recipient of the a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and her book An American …

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Geraldine Higgins speaks with Atlanta Journal-Constitution on upcoming Ellmann Lectures and author Min Jin Lee

Keith Anthony — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:31:57 +0000

Prof. Geraldine Higgins, Director of The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, spoke with the AJC’s Suzanne Van Atten on the 2026 Lectures, featuring Min Jin Lee. The first Asian American writer in the series, Lee is the author of Pachinko (2017) and Free Food for Millionaires (2022), as well as the upcoming novel America …

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Senior Abby Brown selected as a Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Fellow

Keith Anthony — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:39:11 +0000

Meet Abby Brown, who is currently a 2025-2026 Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry! Abby is writing her honors thesis in non-fiction through the English and Creative Writing program. Here’s what she had to say: “My project aims to illuminate the impacts of the death penalty and the larger carceral …

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Hank Klibanoff’s classes on cold cases featured in Emory Report

Keith Anthony — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:44:30 +0000

Renowned for his work on Georgia Civil Rights cold cases and his WABE series “Buried Truths,” Pulitzer-Prize winner and journalist Hank Klibanoff’s teaching is showcased in Emory Report. https://tinyurl.com/3bhdfbuh

Ghazala Hashmi, 1992 English Ph.D. alum, elected Virginia’s lieutenant governor

Keith Anthony — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:20:11 +0000

Congratulations to Ghazala Hashmi on an incredible accomplishment! She has just been elected as Virginia’s lieutenant governor! Hashmi earned her doctorate in Emory’s English department in 1992 with a dissertation titled William Carlos Williams and the American ground of “In the American Grain” and “Paterson.” Her advisor was Prof. Peter Dowell. Most recently, she was …

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Dan Sinykin publishes essay on close reading in Slate

Keith Anthony — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:43:03 +0000

The Case for Whole Books: You can’t get better at reading until you care about a text, by Johanna Winant and Dan Sinykin Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant’s book Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century has just been published by Princeton University Press.

Cameron Hart selected for inaugural Folger Institute Undergraduate Seminar

Keith Anthony — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:51:10 +0000

Congratulations to Cameron Hart on an impressive year! Cameron, a junior English major from Memphis, was one of just 15 students selected to study at the inaugural Folger Institute Undergraduate Spring Seminar, 2025. The program, titled “Whose Sovereignty?,” was led by Professor of English Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Toronto) and explored power and consent across political, social, …

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2018 PhD alum Richie Hofmann awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2025 Literature Fellowship from NEA!

Keith Anthony — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:27:44 +0000

Congratulations to 2018 Ph.D. alum Richie Hofmann, who has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous collections, A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and his latest, The Bronze Arms will be published in February 2026. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The …

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