The English Department’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 David C. Jenkins Memorial Scholarship in creative writing.

English Professor and department chair Adam Potkay delivered the fall Tack Faculty Lecture last week, exploring pity and gratitude through philosophy and literature.

English Professor Adam Potkay examines how contested emotions have stymied philosophers and writers since time immemorial.

Pease Wins the 2014 Bevel Summers Prize

For the past three summers, archaeologists have dug up the grounds of a William & Mary dorm in search of the "smoking lunchbox"—the archaeologists' term for a material-culture connection between the 18th-century Bray School and a building still in use on the William & Mary campus.

The W&M professor and the renowned poet had a relationship lasting almost 40 years.

On Sunday, Jess Benson '14 will complete the family tradition, graduating with the rest of the Class of 2014 while her family members – who all stood in her place once – cheer her on.

Prof. Nancy Schoenberger was among a strong group of William and Mary faculty who were awarded this year's Plumeri Awards for Faculty Excellence

The William & Mary Lemon Project is preparing to host its fourth annual spring symposium, an event that continues to grow each year.

Renowned poets and biographers highlight exciting offerings, each open to the public.

A central figure in the establishment of the black studies program and first associate chair of the English department, Jacquelyn McLendon has spent more than two decades positively influencing W&M, its students and faculty.

Associate Professor of Law Allison Orr Larsen received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education.

The English Department is pleased to welcome our new Class of 1939 Artist in Residence, the distinguished poet and nonfiction writer Quincy Troupe. He will present a free public reading of his work on February 12, 2014, at 8 p.m. in the Tucker Theater

Each year, the Alumni Association recognizes five exceptional faculty members with the Alumni Fellowship Award.

Co-authored by Christine Mallinson, an associate professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, the book examines how educators and students communicate, as well as how students understand what is being communicated by authors who are commonly read in secondary English classrooms.

As a summer counselor at Camp Takodah in the woods of New Hampshire, Madeline Benjamin led a group of teenage girls in a non-traditional learning experience that she based off of the theory and thought of perhaps the ultimate camp counselor — Henry David Thoreau.

A reading in memory of Seamus Heaney, a friend of many at the university, was held one month after the poet's death.

The Department of English and Patrick Hayes Writers' Series are sponsoring an event in which the audience is invited to participate in reading Heaney's work.

Renovation work on Tucker Hall has been completed. Many improvements are already apparent to faculty and students settling into the new space.

Yancey Strickler '00, a W&M alumnus and one of the founders of the popular "crowdfunding" website Kickstarter, spoke with students and faculty on Friday afternoon.

Deborah Morse is doing all she can to see that her passion for the works of Victorian author Anthony Trollope rubs off on educators.

Professor Joshua Gert taught the philosophy of color for the first time last semester.

Katherine Arcement '13 achieves a rare distinction for a student: inclusion in the world-famous London Review of Books.

Five-year project by W&M's Chancellor Professor of English Terry Meyers results in a free digital volume of some of the work of Sidney A. Alexander.

Students participating in Joanne Braxton's "Articulating Ancestry" course are given the tools and the self-confidence to become engaged scholars.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Chelsey Johnson's "Escape and Reverse" was selected for the prestigious digital literary magazine, Ploughshares Solo.