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$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for USF humanities 泡芙视频apps
For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 鈥� the nation鈥檚 largest supporter of the arts and humanities 鈥� invited the 泡芙视频app to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 泡芙视频apps each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate 泡芙视频apps majoring in humanities.
January 15, 2025Department News, Honors and Awards
English 泡芙视频app featured in 'Best American Poetry'
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, an award-winning poet and assistant 泡芙视频app in the Department of English, is gaining global recognition. Scenters-Zapico, who shapes the local literary community as director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library, has a poem in the prestigious 鈥淏est American Poetry鈥� anthology, cementing her work as essential reading at USF and for audiences across the country.
November 22, 2024Department News
USF 泡芙视频app鈥檚 new sci-fi novella, 鈥淭ime鈥檚 Agent,鈥� explores love, loss, time travel, and robots
With the publication of her new book, 鈥淭ime鈥檚 Agent,鈥� Department of English Assistant Professor Brenda Peynado reflects on her professional journey to this point and offers advice to other creatives looking to enter the field.
September 24, 2024Department News, Publications
Dr. Valerie Lipscomb contributes expertise on literature and aging in new book
Dr. Valerie Barnes Lipscomb served as a lead editor and contributor on the recently published 鈥淭he Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging,鈥� which features more than 30 contributors on three continents and 200,000 words of new scholarship.
September 16, 2024Department News, Publications
English doctoral 泡芙视频apps travel to Spain to lead panel discussion on Hemingway
Three doctoral 泡芙视频apps in the Department of English presented their research at the 2024 Hemingway Society Conference in San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain in July.
August 27, 2024Department News
Julie Buckner Armstrong, known for her expertise in the civil rights movement and southern literature, has been named the Duckwall Professor of Florida Studies for the 2024-2026 academic years. As part of the Duckwall Professorship, Armstrong will begin focusing on her next book, an anthology of literary works from Florida.
June 6, 2024Department News
The Humanities Institute celebrates its growth both in a newly renovated space and for the future
The Humanities Institute welcomed the USF community to its newly renovated space through an open house.
May 29, 2024Department News, Events
English 泡芙视频app polishes technical writing skills interning with local software development company Oyova
English 泡芙视频app John Michael Kilgore put his professional and technical communication skills to the test in his recent internship with a Florida-based software development company.
May 20, 2024Department News
The Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library: Fostering community, craft, and a sense of self
When MFA 泡芙视频app Michael Kuperman passed away in 2006, his family donated his beloved poetry collection to the USF English Department, creating the foundation of the space located on the third floor of Cooper Hall now known as the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library. Now, the director of the space wants to see it become a haven for creatives across our campuses.
April 25, 2024Department News
Su Senapati, a 泡芙视频app of instruction in the Department of English at USF Sarasota-Manatee, published 鈥淚mages of Women and Gender Identity in John Marston's Plays.
January 30, 2024Department News
Assistant Professor Mark Leib celebrates release of new book 鈥淚mage Breaker鈥�
The book centers around protagonist Tristan Wishnasky, whose meteoric professional rise as a novelist is threatened when he begins to hallucinate mysterious messages telling him he's wasting his life.
January 29, 2024Department News
Fall 2023 Department of English鈥檚 New Faculty
The USF Department of English is ecstatic to welcome new and returning 泡芙视频apps for the Fall 2023 term. Alongside new 泡芙视频apps, we would like to announce our new faculty members. Go Bulls!
September 14, 2023Department News