News & Events

Join the English Department for a celebration of Shakespeare's 449th Birthday!

Join us for readings by some of our current MFA students on Thursday, 4/18 at 7:00 pm in Room A218 of the Paul Creative Arts Center. Featured readers at this event include Lucy Hitz, Noah Tucker, Laurin Macios and Ryan Hale. This event is free and open to the public.

The Northeast Writing Center Association Conference (NEWCA) will be held at UNH this weekend (April 13-14th). The event, which will bring together over 200 writing scholars, teachers, and tutors from colleges throughout the Northeast, is hosted by the English Department's Composition program and the Connors Writing Center. For those interested in Attending, this year's theme is: "Writing Enriched, Writing Enhanced: Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum as Partners and Agents of Change."

Join us for readings by some of our current MFA students on Thursday, 4/11 at 7:00 pm in Room A218 of the Paul Creative Arts Center. Featured readers at this event include M.K. Cobb, Alicia de los Reyes, Joe Gilbert, Meg Leonard, and Rose Whitmore. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a presentation by the 2013 Donald Murray Visiting Journalist, Chris Outcalt, UNH Class of 2006. Mr. Outcalt will give a talk titled "Great stories have a soul, and other things I've learned as a Journalist" at 5:00pm in MUB 1 on Tuesday, April 9th. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a First Fridays event with Prof. Ryan Cordell from Northeastern University. Prof. Cordell will present a paper titled "Infectious Texts: Viral Networks in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers.". This event is free and open to the public. 

Get to know English Department faculty, English majors, and friends of the department a little bit better -- join us for a casual afternoon of tea, light refreshments, and conversation. This event is free and open to all undergraduate majors and graduate students.

Join us for a Writers Series event featuring author Dan Chaon. Mr. Chaon is the author of Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. In February, 2012 a new collection of short stories, Stay Awake, was published by Ballantine Books to widespread critical acclaim. This event is free and open to the public. 

Prof. Monica Chiu publishes new anthology with University of Hawaii Press, Diversity in Diaspora: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century

Join us for a special Writers Series event featuring poet, publisher, and actress Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Stoykova-Klemer is the editor of the anthology Bigger than they Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, and her latest poetry book The Porcupine of Mind is available from Broadstone Books. This event is free and open to the public. 

Rochelle Lieber, Professor of English, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Lindberg Award, given annually to the outstanding Teacher-Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts.

Join us for a First Fridays event with Prof. Cathy Schlund-Vials from the University of Connecticut. Prof. Schlund-Vials will present a paper titled "Re-Membering the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work". This event is free and open to the public. 

Join us for a Writers Series event featuring award-winning poet Stuart Dischell. Mr. Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a 1991 National Poetry Series selection, and recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Simon Guggenheim Foundation. This event is free and open to the public. 

Get to know English Department faculty, English majors, and friends of the department a little bit better -- join us for a casual afternoon of tea, light refreshments, and conversation. This event is free and open to all undergraduate majors and graduate students.

The UNH English Department and 18th Century Seminar group welcome guest speaker Suvir Kaul for a presentation titled "Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Empire: British Literature in the Eighteenth Century". This event is free and open to the public. 

Are you interested in declaring one of the English majors offered by the University of New Hampshire? If you want to declare an English, English Literature, English Teaching or English/Journalism major you may do so during our spring new major declaration week: February 11-15, 2013. Click through for more details about how to join us this semester!

Join us for a First Fridays lecture featuring presentations by graduate students from the Ralph Ellison seminar. Featured speakers include Luke Dietrich, Brittany Hoxie, and Anna Zoeller. This event is free and open to the public. 

These essays mark the maturation of scholarship on Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important public intellectuals of the nineteenth century and a writer whose works have been much revived in recent decades.

Join us for readings by some of our MFA students: Tracey Dewhurst, Jonathan Phinney, Pete Loux, and Dustin Martin. This event is free and open to the public. 

Join us for readings by some of our graduating MFA students: Liz Falvey, Marc Paltrineri, John Bubar, and Ambre F. Earp. This event is free and open to the public.