News & Updates

2021 News

USF English Professor Awarded McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship

USF English Professor Awarded McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship

USF Department of English Assistant Professor Julia Koets was awarded a McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund, a program that promotes excellence in teaching and research by underrepresented minorities and women.

September 1, 2021Honors and Awards

St. Pete Campus English Professor Publishes Book on Scholarly Life of the Classroom

St. Pete Campus English Professor Publishes Book on Scholarly Life of the Classroom

Thomas Hallock, Professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus, recently published his book titled "Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst".

April 16, 2021Publications

USF English Professor Awarded Prestigious Windham Campbell Prize

USF English Professor Awarded Prestigious Windham Campbell Prize

Assistant Professor Natalie Scenters-Zapico was recently awarded the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature Prize at Yale University. The prize recognizes her two collections of poetry,The Verging Cities(2016) andLima :: Limon(2019). It also comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000.

April 16, 2021Honors and Awards

USF Grad Student Wins CCCC Travel Award

USF Grad Student Wins CCCC Travel Award

University of South Florida English PhD student Kara Larson has won a 2021 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), presents the award to 10 recipients each year.

March 25, 2021Honors and Awards

Spring 2021 English Department Accomplishments

Spring 2021 Accomplishments

As we are in the middle of the Spring semester, we thought it would be nice to share with you all the accomplishments our department has gone through.

March 24, 2021Honors and Awards

USF’s 6x6 Reading Series a Virtual Success

USF’s 6x6 Reading Series a Virtual Success

In pre-pandemic times, the hallmark of USF’s 6x6 Reading Series was the bustling energy, coffee aroma, and voices of great writers filling Felicitous on 42nd. This year, 6x6 carried on the tradition remotely, hosting the event on Microsoft Teams.

March 19, 2021Events

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Department of English students, alumni, and faculty can submit news of accomplishments and events for our News section. We welcome announcements of publications, works presented, jobs procured, awards garnered, scholarships awarded, graduate school placements, and upcoming events.