David Greven publishes new book on Hitchcock with Oxford University Press David Greven, Professor of English, has published a new book, Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017).
David Greven's book Ghost Faces is a Lambda Literary Award Finalist "Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity" (SUNY 2016) written by David Greven, Professor of English, is a Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award
Susan Courtney publishes "Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South" This new book traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was dramatically shifting in the decades after World War II, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since.
Robert H. Elias Prize 2016-17 Is Awarded to English Department Doctoral Student Hannah Huber Graduate student receives national recognition for her trailblazing study of Lily Bart, from Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth", as an example of the pathological restlessness caused by the late 19th-century American urban environment
Sara Schwebel publishes the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition" (UC Press, 2016) Associate Professor of English has published the first ever critical edition of this novel.
USC English Department welcomes new faculty Assistant Professor Qiandi Liu and Associate Professor Michael Dowdy have joined the USC Department of English Language and Literature
Gretchen Woertendyke publishes the book, "Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre" In this broad-ranging study, Woertendyke reconfigures U.S. literary history as a product of hemispheric relations
Paula R. Feldman publishes "The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe" Tighe, a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet, is best known for her epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, based on the classical legend of Psyche and Cupid
Nina Levine publishes "Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage" This new book explores how the commercial theater operated as a medium as well as a model for urban experience in the burgeoning metropolis of early modern London.
Department of English sponsors 2016 International Comics Arts Forum The Department of English Language and Literature is one of several University of South Carolina sponsors for the 18th annual International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) to be held at the Inn at USC Wyndham Garden on April 14-16, 2016.
David Greven publishes new book, "Ghost Faces" David Greven, Professor of English, has published a new book on film and masculinity, Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity, with SUNY Press.
Associate Professor of English Anne W. Gulick publishes book on Postcolonial Studies Dr. Anne W. Gulick, Associate Professor of English, has published a book, "Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic", with the Ohio State University Press.
David Cowart's latest book focuses on writers coming to prominence in recent decades "The Tribe of Pyn" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015) receives warm endorsements from scholars around the world
English Department Graduate Student Named a Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Jennifer Blevins, pursuing both an MFA and a Ph.D. in our program, receives award as an outstanding graduate student
Carolina Graduate Literature Society Announces Featured Speakers for Third Annual Conference Shelly Streeby (UC San Diego) and John Muckelbauer (USC) to keynote the CGLS's Third Annual Graduate English Conference
Book Awarded Richard Wall Memorial Special Jury Prize David Shields' recent book, Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography, has just been awarded the Richard Wall Memorial Special Jury Prize
New Assistant Professor joins the Department of English Language and Literature Meet Hannah Rule, our new Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
Dr. Sara Schwebel Given "Breakthrough Award" and University of California Press Book Contract! Dr. Sara Schwebel, Associate Professor of English, has been given one of the University of South Carolina's prestigious "Breakthrough Awards."
Michael Gavin has new book from Cambridge University Press Michael's book, The Invention of English Criticism, 1650-1760, delivers a lively account of the ways in which literary criticism developed through the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries.
USC English Department welcomes new Assistant Professor Mark Minett! Assistant Professor Mark Minett has joined the USC Department of English Language and Literature!
USC English Department welcomes new Assistant Professor Eli Jelly-Schapiro! Assistant Professor Eli Jelly-Schapiro has joined the USC Department of English Language and Literature!
David Shields's New Book - Southern Provisions David Shields's new book, "Southern Provisions" taps into the legacy of southern cooking
New Post-Katrina Novel, "The Lower Quarter", by Elise Blackwell A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio...
David Shields named 2017 SEC Faculty Achievement Award winner David Shields, a Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, has been named one of 14 SEC professors who have been honored with 2017 SEC Faculty Achievement Awards.
Assistant Professor Samuel Amadon and Associate Professor Gretchen Woertendyke win Teaching Awards for 2015 Department honors outstanding teachers for 2015
Professor of English Holly Crocker Wins a USC Russell Research Award for 2016 English Department Professor recognized by university for outstanding research
Paige Keuster Awarded One of Three Top Undergraduate Research Prizes Paige Keuster, Top Prize, Garnet Track, "Scope Notes for the Lone Woman Digital Archives", Supporting faculty, Dr. Sara Schwebel, English
