Tulane English

Congratulations to Karisma Price for receiving the 2026 Outstanding Faculty Research or Creative Activities Award from 🏅

Karisma was also recently named a 2026 Writing Freedom Fellow! Her accolades continue to grow!

Huge congratulations to Dr. Kate Adams, who was awarded the 2026 Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellowship for Undergraduate Education 🏆

Dr. Adams is recognized for encouraging students to think critically and across disciplines as they explore intellectual questions, instilling a sense of purpose and connecting the study of literature to the broader human experience.

Students described her as an anchor whose “unwavering commitment” provided invaluable support while challenging them to achieve their goals. One former student put it simply: “If you are looking for ‘The Teacher Who Changed My Life,’ Kate Adams fits that description without question.”

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Congrats to Professor Jesmyn Ward on her upcoming book of essays, On Witness and Repair, coming out May 16th!

Professor Ward will celebrate the launch of her book with Robert Jones Jr., sponsored by wonderful local bookstore, . 

The event will take place right here on campus in McAlister Auditorium 💚🤍

Don’t miss Prof. Isa Murdock-Hinrich’s works-in-progress talk on Wednesday!

“Science in Motion: Weimar Films and the ‘Foreign’” 🍿

See you in Norman Mayer 200B at 5pm on April 22nd!

TOMORROW!

At 7pm, join us in Freeman Auditorium for the annual Ferguson Lecture: WHY POE— AND THE HUMANITIES— MATTER with Professor J. Gerald Kennedy.

This talk will offer a rapid tour of Poe’s key tales, emphasizing his uncanny foresight into our precarious modern world. Michael Capuzzo, writing for the Smithsonian in 2019, called Poe “the most influential American author ever.” That’s a big claim, yet it’s arguably true. This talk explains why Poe still speaks to us so compellingly—and how his work typifies the continuing importance of the humanities (and reading books!) in an age of AI, digital communication, and online work.

After the lecture concludes, we’ll reconvene in Woodward Way for refreshments! See you there.

Environmental Poetry in the Americas/Poesía ambiental en las Américas brings together poets Nicole Cecilia Delgado (Puerto Rico) and Eliana Hernández Pachón (Colombia) for a Spanish-language reading and bilingual conversation with two key Latin American voices whose work draws connections between poetry, visual arts, and environmental thought.

Through archival and documentary approaches, their writing addresses hurricanes, extractivism, and forced migration. Recent publications include Delgado’s Período especial (2019) and Islas adyacentes / Adjacent Islands (2022), and Hernández Pachón’s award-winning La mata / The Brush (2020, 2024).

Both are influential figures in independent publishing—Delgado as co-founder of La Impresora and Hernández Pachón through collaborations with presses and collectives such as Como un lugar—highlighting poetry’s power to envision new ecological relationships and collective futures.

We hope to see you there!

Soon, we’ll be wrapping up a semester of great reads. From autobiographies to poems, from classic novels to contemporary ones, our undergraduate and graduate students have expanded their reading horizons. 

This is just a small selection of the great works our students have engaged with this semester. 

What was your favorite book this spring? 🌷

The 36th Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture is on the horizon! 

Join visiting speaker and professor J. Gerald Kennedy for a fascinating talk on Poe and the humanities.

See you there 🐦‍⬛

“For over 50 years, the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore met weekly to share their writing with each other. Their goal was to get into print.”

Over 1000 publications later, it’s fair to say these impressive women were successful!

Join Dr. Jean Lee Cole for a discussion on how she and her students created the online Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore Archive. 

April 13th at 5pm - refreshments provided 📖

Don’t miss Prof. Isa Murdock-Hinrich’s works-in-progress talk on Wednesday!

“Science in Motion: Weimar Films and the ‘Foreign’” 🍿

See you in Norman Mayer 200B at 5pm on April 8th!