The Department of English hosts a wide range of talks and readings, most of which are open to the public. Consult Departmental Events Scrapbook to gain an idea of the range and quality of these events; for current events, consult Department Events Calendar.
News and Upcoming Events
Spencer Lecture
featuring Shannon Jackson
Tuesday, April 16th, 5pm
Harvard Hall
Room 201
Harvard Yard
Free and open to the public
Stratis Haviaras Reading
featuring David Ferry
Monday, April 8th, 5pm
Lamont Forum Room
Lamont Library
Harvard Yard
Free and open to the public
Prof. Stephen Greenblatt has received the 2013 Premio di storia letteraria Natalino Sapegno. Prof, Greenblatt is the first American to have received this award; previous winners have included Yves Bonnefoy, Marc Fumaroli, Claudio Magris.
Prof. Jorie Graham has won the International Nonino Prize; she is only the third US recipient since the award was established in 1984
Congratulations to Prof. Martin Puchner for is induction into the Academia Europaea.
Prof. Martin Puchner has won the Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama and Theatre.
Congratulations to Professor Marjorie Garber on her recent election to the American Philosophical Society.
Professor Stephen Greenblatt has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his work “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
The Graduate Student Council has awarded Professor Amanda Claybaugh the Everett Mendelsohn Award for Graduate Mentoring.
Congratulations to Professor James Wood for his recent election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Poets & Writers, Inc. has announced that Visiting Professor Henri Cole is the sixth winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize. The prize is given annually to honor an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.
Professor Jim Engell has been elected the winner of the Jay Fliegelman Excellence in Mentorship Award, by the Graduate Student Caucus of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Professor Homi K. Bhahba has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honors. Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, was one of 27 recipients of the Padma Bhushan this year. The award recognizes Indian citizens and Indians from the diaspora for “distinguished service of high order” in a variety of fields from the visual arts to public affairs. Bhabha was honored in the literature and education category. All awards are approved by the President of India and will be conferred at a ceremony in March or April.
The Department of English congratulates Stephen Greenblatt, whose The Swerve won the National Book Award Non-Fiction category on Wednesday 16 November.
The Undergraduate Program is excited to announce that it has a new partnership with The Harvard Review! Concentrators interested in pursuing an internship can find the application here.
Harvard’s Walter Cabot Channing Fellowships were announced on 9 August 2011. No fewer than four English Department colleagues were among the ten honorees:
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, “Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary Americans Reclaimed Their Pasts” and “Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora”
Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor, “Shakespeare’s Freedom” and “Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto”
James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, “Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition”
Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, “The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy”
Congratulations to Professor Homi Bhabha, for receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Literature (DLit) from University College London. (For more information click here.)
Congratulations to Professor Lawrence Buell and Professor Barbara Lewalski for their recent Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowships. (For more information click here.)
Congratulations to the recipients of the Harvard University
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. (For more information click here.)
Elaine Auyoung
Christine Barrett
Margaret Doherty
Amelia Klein
Matthew Ocheltree
Catherine Reedy
Margaret Rennix
Kathryn Robertsx
Seth Rosenbaum
Nikki Skillman
Stephen Tardif
Brandon Tilley
Kaye Wierzbicki
Congratulations to the recipients of the Harvard University
Certificate of Teaching Excellence. (For more information click here.)
Melissa Ganz
Kenneth Urban
Joanna Klink
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Aarthi Vadde
