Department of English
Kimpel Hall 333,
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
P 479-575-4301
F 479-575-5919
E-mail: engl@uark.edu
Department of English
Mary Beth Long Teaching English Literature from the Beginning through the 17th Century
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News
Graduate Students in English Conference Opens Conversations on Difficult Topics (March 15, 2019)
U of A Professor Wins Prestigious Whiting Foundation Fellowship (March 12, 2019)
U of A's Arkansas International Literary Journal Issue 6 Release and Reading (March 11, 2019)
Marín Named Outstanding Tutor of Year by Regional Writing Centers Group (March 4, 2019)
Two Fulbright College Faculty and Six Students Receive 2018-19 Blair Center Fellowships (Feb. 21, 2019)
Graduate Students in English (GSE)
Website and Online Newsletter
Author Spotlight
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Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (October 2018)
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Lissette Szwydky-Davis (contributor)
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Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture (January 2018)
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Robin Roberts
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Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television (November 2017)
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Lisa Hinrichsen (co-editor)
An Arkansas Florilegium: The Atlas of Botanist Edwin Smith Illustrated by Naturalist Kent Bonar (October 2017)
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Robert Cochran (editor)
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Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (May 2017)
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David Jolliffe and Sam Morris (contributors)
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The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society (January 2017)
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Robert Cochran (editor)
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The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project: Culture, Place, & Authenticity
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David Jolliffe (co-author)
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The Essex and the Whale: Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby Dick
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Robert Madison (editor)
Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven
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J.T. Mahany (translator)
MFA Translation Student
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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
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Padma Viswanathan
Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards.
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Olde Clerkis Speche: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Implications of Authorial Recital
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William Quinn
Lights! Camera! Arkansas!: From Broncho Billy to Billy Bob Thornton
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Robert Cochran and Suzanne McCray
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Graduate Programs
M.A./Ph.D. in English
While rigorous in terms of the level of research and scholarship they require, the M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English also emphasize professionalization to prepare students for employment inside or outside of academia.
Creative Writing & Translation
One of the nation’s oldest MFA Programs, and one of the “Top Five Most Innovative” (The Atlantic Monthly), we offer degree tracks in Fiction, Poetry and Literary Translation.
Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing & Public Rhetorics
A fully online 12 credit hour graduate program developed to meet the needs of working professionals and graduate students in Northwest Arkansas and beyond.
