UGA English Department

08/25/2026

Meet your Peers and Professors! Enjoy food, drinks, and snag a gift bag!

Today, 8/25, in Park #261 from 4 to 6.

08/19/2026

Attention all English majors, minors, and literature curious! We are holding a Faculty + Student Mixer next week and we would love to see you there!

08/19/2026

Beloved former English Professor Ron Balthazor, will be on campus next week reading from his Book of Seasons!

The reading is hosted by UGA Office of Sustainability , UGA English Department , and the Sustainability Certificate and will be held at Odum School of Ecology Auditorium, Aug. 26th at 4:30pm.

G H O S T Athens .athens will have copies of my book. You can also get a copy at Rec Room Books downtown Athens, Molly’s Coffee Company and at 1000 Faces Wire Park

08/17/2026

There is a lot going on in the English department this semester! Check back often so you don't miss anything.

08/10/2026

English PhD Candidate Mounawar Abbouchi spoke with Franklin News' Joy Pope about "how medieval authors reinterpreted women from classical antiquity, transforming figures such as Dido, Medea, Philomela, and Procne into moral examples for medieval readers. Her dissertation asks what those adaptations reveal about the cultures that produced them."

Read the full article here: https://www.franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2026/research-reveals-how-medieval-writers-reshaped-stories-ancient-women

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...