UNH English Department

This Friday! Learn about our PhD program in Composition, Literacy, and Rhetoric. Faculty will be present to answer your questions!

A great showing at today’s open house! The English Department was represented in force and made some great connections with prospective students. A huge thank you to Prof. Monica Chiu, Prof. Laura Smith, Hazel Beuker, Maggie Buglino and Rachel Pincince for taking time to meet with future Wildcats!

Yeah, English majors aren’t great at math, but if you just give $3.06 today, the department will get $53.06. The first 1,500 new donors who make a gift in a total amount containing the numerals 6, 0 and 3 (in any order), will earn a $50 bonus on their gift.

The (603) Challenge 2024 Join me and make a gift to The (603) Challenge 2024

The (603) Challenge is live! There are $350,000 available in matching funds - so your gift could get matched up to $350. Visit unh.edu/603 to make your gift to the English Department today!

The (603) Challenge 2024 Join me and make a gift to The (603) Challenge 2024

Members of the UNH community, including Mr. Carl Quimby, UNH ’51, and Duncanson Initiative affiliates gathered this week at River Woods Durham in the revealing of the poem, Two Mothers Remembered, by Joann Snow Duncanson. River Woods Durham is partnering with this effort and will display Joann’s poem about her journey with her mother who lived with Alzheimer’s Disease.”

We are now accepting submissions for our annual Writing Awards!
https://cola.unh.edu/english/writing-awards

An interesting article about the effects of AI on liberal arts majors

To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.

The English Department is hosting a celebration and conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the awarding of our first PhD in 1972. The event—on Friday, September 22, 2023—will run from 10AM to the evening on the first floor of Hamilton Smith Hall. English PhD alumuni/ae’s achievements and insights will be the centerpiece of the event. We plan an exhibit of alumni books, and some returning alums will participate in conversations about their work—in scholarship, administration, teaching, nonprofits, and other areas—and about the state of the humanities. The schedule will include roundtables featuring short alumni/ae talks in Hamilton Smith Hall 150 and will end with a reception at 5PM in Hamilton Smith Hall’s Atrium. This is an open event, and members of the English Department and the UNH community are welcome to drop in and join the celebration. The event’s schedule is here: https://cola.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2023/09/phd_50th_program.pdf. For more information, contact Professor Brigitte Bailey, at [email protected].

"What Are You Going to Do with That" is a podcast that focuses on the many career pathways open to students across the Humanities. Prepare yourself for the inevitable questions from family and friends about your English degree by listening to the success stories of some very creative and innovative businesspeople who followed the pathway that you're on at UNH!

Podcast – National Humanities Alliance A podcast where we explore everyday folks’ decisions to study the humanities as undergraduates and their pathways to fulfilling careers.

Last night's Simic Memorial Event can now be seen at https://media.unh.edu/media/t/1_jos5eq7m Thanks to everyone who helped make this wonderful event happen.

Charles Simic Memorial Event A gathering on April 19th, 2023 to commemorate poet Charles Simic.Speakers:Ada Limon, Poet Laureate of the United States (video) Andrew Periale is a poet, playwright, puppeteer and polyglot. He was for nearly 40 years the editor of Puppetry International magazine and performed with his wife Bonnie f...

Thanks to all the readers who participated at Charlie Simic Day today! It was great to see so many of his former students and colleagues come together to honor him. You are missed, Charlie!

Today!