News
Media scholar Carol Stabile joins the English Department as Director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. Professor Stabile's research focuses on intersections of gender, race, and class in media, in terms of both representational and industrial practices. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University in 1992. Read more.
Medievalist Warren Ginsberg becomes the English Department's first Knight Professor.
Professor Steven Shankman is named UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue and Peace. Read more.
Recent Events
This summer the English Department hosted a reunion for graduate students who attended between 1965 and 1975. The reunion kicked off with a reception in the PLC courtyard at 6:00 pm Friday, August 14. On the following evening, dinner was held at the Excelsior Inn. All faculty and alumni were invited to join us in reminiscing about an exciting era in the Department’s history.
English Department Commencement took place on Saturday, June 13 at 3:00 pm in the Memorial Quad. Click here for details.
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Earth Matters On Stage ~ Festival on Theatre & Ecology Saturday, May 30. Click herefor for details.
Ramón Saldivar of Stanford delivered a talk on Salvador Plascencia's recent novel The People of Paper, on Thursday, May 7, at 3:00 pm in the Knight Browsing Room.
The year-long "Directed by Steven Spielberg" film series, presented by the UO Department of English, concluded May 7, at 6 p.m. in Willamette 110. The free screening of KOI MIL GAYA (2003) was preceded by Bollywood/Hollywood Appropriation, Spielberg's E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, Roshan's Koi Mil Gaya, Satyajit Ray's script The Alien, and a short talk by Blair Orfall.
Poet and novelist Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting, War Trash, and A Free Life, presented his work in progress.
March 6, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
Shannon Steen of Stanford University presented Affect, Race, and the Political Life of Barack Obama
March 2, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Knight Library Browsing Room
Guest Lecture: the English Department hosted a lecture by Professor Hsuan Hsu of UC, Davis, on November 18, 2008. Professor Hsu’s interests include 19th- and 20th-Century U.S. literature, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, comparative racialization, and theories of globalization. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Genre, Geography, and the Production of Scale in 19th-Century U.S. Literature. His publications include "Race, Environment, and Representation," a co-edited special issue of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, and American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900, co-edited with Martin Brückner (University of Delaware Press, 2007).
Guest Lecture: the English Department hosted a lecture by Professor David Lloyd of USC on Friday, October 24, 2008. Lloyd specializes in Irish literature and culture and in cultural and aesthetic theory. He is the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987); Anomalous States (1993); and Ireland After History (2000). A new collection of essays, Irish Times: Essays on the History and Temporality of Irish Modernity, will appear from Field Day Press, Dublin, 2008. He has co-published several other books: The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse, co-edited with Abdul JanMohamed (1991); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, co-edited with Lisa Lowe (1997); and Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997).
English Department Graduation, June 14, 2008. Click here to view QuickTime Movie.
The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric after Fifty Years
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's La Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité de l'Argumentation, the University of Oregon hosted an international conference from May 17-20, 2008.
Indigenous Literatures and Other Arts: A Symposium and Workshop, May 2 – 3, 2008
This two-day Symposium brought together a diverse group of scholars, artists, and community members to investigate the potential relationships among Indigenous literatures, other Indigenous arts practices, and Indigenous arts and media scholarship. Through staged conversations and hands-on workshops, participants investigated a range of complex questions about how we understand the tensions between politics and aesthetics, audience and innovation, situated improvisation and the continuity of custom.
Poet and Fiction Writer N. Scott Momaday
- 150 Columbia or EMU Ballroom, May 1, 6:00 PM
Fiction Writer Antonya Nelson
- Knight Library Browsing Room, April 17, 8:00 PM