The Poetry Out Loud competition returns to the College of Charleston on Sunday, January 26 at 1:30 PM in the Stern Center Ballroom. High school students from eleven local schools will participate by reciting and performing poems from memory as…

Cheers to Jamie Carr (’12) for winning the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize for her short story, “Chicken”!  The story was selected by Pam Houston, and it will be published in Cutthroat literary journal. Jamie is completing her MFA in…

Just in time for the Winter Break as audiences are enticed by Hollywood’s new box office releases, Film Studies Professor John Bruns offers a few insights about the merits of movie sequels such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and…

Congratulations to Associate Professor Tony Varallo, whose third short story collection Think of Me and I’ll Know was published this fall by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. Varallo’s new stories perfect character by offering snaphots of lives that are both flawed…

The Fall semester’s English Department Open House brought together students and faculty and highlighted upcoming courses and opportunities for students to get involved in English activities and groups. Check out Dr. Eichelberger’s photo booth, which features some of our English…

Three cheers for new poetry professor Gary Jackson on being named a “New American Poet”–one of the Poetry Society of America’s coveted distinctions for emerging poets!  Jackson was selected by poet Jennifer Chang, who praises his first poetry collection Missing…

Congratulations to Sara Peck on the publication of Yr Lad, Bob—a poetry chapbook that experiments with the art of influence. Her poems incorporate and respond to the innovative works of three poets–Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov–who themselves collaborated…

The new academic year is off to a good start and the English Department is happy to introduce the three new Assistant Professors who have joined us this Fall. Colleen Glenn (PhD, U. of Kentucky ’12) teaches Film Studies, with…