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
Geffrey Davis Awarded Prestigious Literary Fellowship (Feb. 15, 2019)
Arkansas Stories Use Objects and Places to Bring History to Life (Feb. 13, 2019)
Graduate Conference Proposal Submissions Deadline Extended (Jan. 25, 2019)
Free Public Reading by Poet Robin Becker (Nov. 7, 2018)
Pryor Center Presents: Robert Cochran to Give Lecture (Nov. 5, 2018)
CFP for Graduate Students in English 2019 Conference (Oct. 29, 2018)
Second Annual Open Mouth Poetry Festival Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 (Oct. 26, 2018)
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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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.
