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The English Department at the University of Georgia is a diverse scholarly community of over 40 faculty, 80 graduate teaching assistants, 120 graduate students, and more than 500 undergraduate majors and minors held together by a common commitment to preserving, transmitting, and extending the rich cultural legacy of the English language. At the core of our discipline lie the complex skills of reading and writing, and though these can be productively applied to a wide range of professional goals in the sciences, in the arts, in business or in government our own work as scholars and teachers strives to expand and to deepen our understanding of the critical and creative imagination.

A sympathetic participation in the verbal worlds of other times and places, drawing on the full range of linguistic tools, historical knowledge, and interpretive experience at our disposal, allows our students to enhance their appreciation for expressive possibility. The diversity of the faculty's research interests, teaching philosophies, and scholarly methods helps ensure that an English major at the University of Georgia develops a sophisticated, practical grasp of the central role that language plays in the creation and preservation of a vibrant cultural community.

All Upcoming Wednesday, February 10 (12:15 PM) Advisory Committee Meeting The Advisory Committee to the head will meet in Park 261. Tuesday , February 16 (08:00 PM) VOX Reading - Gillian Conoley On February 16, poet Gillian Conoley will be reading at CINE at 8 PM as part of the VOX Reading Series. Wednesday, February 17 (04:30 PM) Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Dr. John Richetti Please join us for a talk by Dr. John Richetti on Wednesday, February 17 at 4:30pm in Park Hall 265. A reception will follow in the Park Hall Library. Dr. Richetti, the A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss "Defoe & Enlightenment." Dr. Richetti has published widely in the eighteenth century and in the history of the novel, including Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739, Defoe's Narratives: Situations and Structures, The English Novel in History, 1700-1800, and The Life of Daniel Defoe. The recent past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, he has edited The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century, The Columbia History of the British Novel, and (with Paula Backscheider) Popular Fiction by Women: 1660-1740. He is also the editor of the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of the New Cambridge History of English Literature. This event is funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and by the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. Free and open to the public. Wednesday, February 17 (12:15 PM) Faculty Meeting The faculty will meet in Park 144. Thursday , February 25 (03:30 PM) Q&A w/ Susan Howe & David Grubbs Poet SUSAN HOWE and musician DAVID GRUBBS will offer a question-and-answer session, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, February 25, in Park Hall 265. Free and open to the public. The Q&A will precede their performance, later the same evening, at the Hodgson School of Music. Please address questions to Andrew Zawacki (zawacki@uga.edu). Thursday , February 25 (07:00 PM) Susan Howe & David Grubbs performance Poet SUSAN HOWE and musician DAVID GRUBBS, who have collaborated on the recordings "Thiefth" (Blue Chopsticks, 2005) and "Souls of the Labadie Tract" (Blue Chopsticks, 2007), will perform together at 7:00 p.m. in the Edge Recital Hall at the Hodgson School of Music. Sponsored by the Lanier Chair, the Willson Center, and Verse. Free and open to the public. Please address questions to Andrew Zawacki (zawacki@uga.edu) or Jed Rasula (rasulaj@uga.edu). Wednesday, March 03 (12:15 PM) Undergraduate Committee Meeting The Undergraduate Committee will meet to vote upon Directed Reading and Thesis proposals and other business. Monday , March 08 (10:32 AM) University-wide Furlough Please note that the staff and faculty of the University of Georgia will be on a state-mandated furlough (a compulsory day of leave without pay) today and are forbidden to check University e-mail or to conduct University business.		Christy Desmet and Anne Williams Shakespearean Gothic This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare, as we know him today, was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing ‘Gothic’ themes and forms (the supernatural events and generic hybrids decried by French neoclassicism) justified their aesthetic choices as following the example of their great – and emphatically English – precursor. They cited him in their epigraphs and appropriated his narratives. They echoed his language and imitated his dramatic devices. Like Shakespeare, they explored the ways in which familial ghosts may haunt the present. Like him, they mixed modes and genres: tragedy and comedy, verse and prose. Together, critics of Shakespeare and creators of the Gothic (often one and the same author) not only canonized England’s secular saint and created a new literary mode; they collectively initiated a mode of subjectivity that remains with us today in both high and popular culture. Should you (or someone you know) be in the spotlight?
		Study in Cortona in the Spring ENGL3300, Women in Literature. English Poetesses; Italian Art ENGL 4590, Topics in Victorian Lit. Nineteenth-Century Italy and the Not-So Grand Tour These active, writing-intensive courses are designed to complement the arts elements of the Cortona Program. The Study Abroad Program in Cortona invites applications from juniors and seniors, as well as from sophomores with solid credentials. For more information, visit the Cortona Program website.