UGA English Department

04/27/2026

Don't miss this opportunity to see students in action!

04/27/2026

UGA Today has a wonderful article on Dr. Holly Fling, lecturer and academic coach in the Office for Student Success and Achievement. As one of our PhD graduates, we have always known Holly is wonderful!

Read the whole article at this link:

Holly Fling guides students inside and outside the classroom.

04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day!

04/20/2026

Join Dr. Miriam Jacobson, our speaker, and Dr. Sujata Iyengar's Shakespeare class for this year's Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture and celebration! There will be cake!

Open to the public, but RSVP required; students have priority; seating limited.
Contact and Sponsor: Dr. Sujata Iyengar, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia, [email protected]

04/15/2026

Nathan Haynes is the next English major to be featured in Franklin College's "Countdown to Commencement"!

Nathan is a double major, paring philosophy with English. This year, his paper “Does Literary Criticism Have a Future? Technological and Representational Ambiguity in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence” was selected as the best paper in the arts, humanities, and media category at CURO.

Read the whole article here:

For Franklin senior Nathan Haynes, a multidisciplinary education felt like the natural path. He chose philosophy, he said, because it teaches people how to think about life, how we experience the world, and how we determine what has value.He added English as a double major to explore his strong inte...

04/14/2026

Congratulations to Ed Pavlić, Distinguished Research Professor of English, African American Studies and Creative Writing, who has received a Guggenheim Fellowship! Ed is one of 223 Fellows, picked out of a pool of almost 5,000 applicants.

https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2026-guggenheim-fellows

04/10/2026

English major Gavin Wright is the focus of UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences' recent "Countdown to Commencement" article!

“Studying English has been a way to manifest that initial passion into an experience that has proven both personally meaningful and professionally relevant I plan to attend law school, and I know how important critical reading and writing will be during that time.”

Read the full story here:

This story is part of Franklin’s celebration of its Class of 2026 graduates at the University of Georgia. For Gavin Wright (AB ’26, English), undergraduate research grew naturally out of a passion first sparked in high school: a love of reading, writing, and thinking deeply about literature. At ...

04/08/2026

Please join the spring Symposium on the Book next week as we welcome a visit and special talk from visiting Book Artist Emily Martin!

When: Monday April 13 at 4:30pm

Where: Room 285 in the Special Collections Building (300 S. Hull Street)

What: “Artist’s Books: an Unplanned Journey" will be an immersive talk with several examples of Martin’s books in Hargrett’s collection on display.

Who: Emily Martin, a rather famous Book Artist, and YOU. Come one and all: Book Lovers, Book Artists, and Aficionados of Artist’s Books and Book Arts. Students especially welcome!

04/01/2026

Dr. Steger's 4505 Jane Austen class had a wonderful time last night at "UGA Opera in Bloom: Mansfield Park at the State Botanical Garden." They have spent this semester developing mini-lessons on Regency culture for the cast, and they loved watching Mansfield Park to life.

Many thanks to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA, UGA Opera Theatre, The Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and of course the brilliant players!

https://botgarden.uga.edu/mansfield-park-opera/

04/01/2026

Today, April 1st, at 3 p.m. in Park Hall room 265.

In celebration of the recent launch of the Publishing Certificate at UGA, the English Department, The Georgia Review, and the University of Georgia Press are hosting an Alumni Working in Publishing Panel.

This event is sponsored by the Willson Center and is part of the UGA Humanities Festival. The event is free and open to the public.

https://www.english.uga.edu/events/content/2026/english-alumni-publishing