English Department
Florida State University
405 Williams
Building
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1580
Phone: 850 644 4230
Fax: 850 644
0811
The Department of English offers work leading to the Bachelor of Arts (BA), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Fine Arts (MFA), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in English and American literature, creative writing, and rhetoric and composition. It also offers course work and degree options in a number of related fields including popular culture, folklore, critical theory, women's studies, and film studies. read more
Masood Raja's journal combats Pakistan stereotypes.
When Florida State University graduate Masood Raja (Ph.D 2006, English) would read or hear what media organizations in the U.S. reported about his native Pakistan, he could not overlook the stereotypical representations they used to tell the stories. Instead of battling with the news groups to bring about fair coverage, Raja recruited some of his friends and they took a more direct and hands-on approach: they created Pakistaniaat.org, an online, academic journal of Pakistan studies.
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Paul Outka wins ASLE award for Race and Nature.
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment awarded the prize for the best scholarly book on literature and the environment published in 2007 and 2008 to Professor Paul Outka for his recent book, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Palgrave: 2008). Outka recognizes the importance of the award and says, "ASLE is the central organization for environmentally based criticism both in the U.S. and worldwide, so their award of 'best book of ecocriticism' carries weight." Indeed, with more than 1,200 members in 24 countries, ASLE is the principal organization for those authors who write on Literature and the Environment. In their commendation, judges agreed that Outka "makes good use of literary theory with a strong historical context." Judges also pointed out the "sophisticated way it addresses the intersection of race and nature" in the work of both Anglo-European and African American writers. → read more
Poet Barbara Hamby makes words tango.
Reviewers are making room on their dance cards for Barbara Hamby's new book of poems, All-Night Lingo Tango. Former winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Hamby combines in her fourth book an intricate verbal play with tongue-in-cheek eroticism to produce off-beats lyrics almost as exciting as the fabled Argentinian dance. → read more
Eric Walker discusses modern marriage.
Eric Walker's new book, Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen after War (Stanford University Press: 2009) is destined to change what we mean when we say, "Marriage is difficult." → read more
Erin Belieu was in the House.
The Glass House, that is. Professor Erin Belieu has recently returned from two days at Phillip Johnson's famous Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, where she participated in the March Conversation as representative of contemporary poetry. A few sentences from the Glass House web page illustrate the significance of Belieu's invitation: 'The Philip Johnson Glass House has been described as "the longest running salon in America"… These conversations are legendary… [T]he Philip Johnson Glass House convenes great minds to explore important ideas about society, leadership, architecture, art, preservation and education.' → read more
