FSU Department of English

10/15/2026

Sarabande Books recently announced the winners of their 2026 awards, including Liesel Hamilton for the Prize in the Essay. Sarabande will publish her winning collection of essays, dovetailing, in early 2028. Hamilton began work on the book as her dissertation at FSU. She is currently an assistant instructional professor in the University of Florida’s Writing Program.

In her citation, Sarabande judge Aimee Nezhukumatathil wrote, “This beautiful essay collection honors the fragile but sustaining ties between family and landscape. In these pages, birds serve as boon companions, guides, and witnesses. By the final page, you'll find yourself looking more carefully at birds—and most importantly—at the people you love.”

Read the full press release: https://english.fsu.edu/sarabande-books-announces-2026-annual-prize-winners

09/22/2026

The Department of English and FSU’s International Programs are offering students the opportunity to travel to Florence over the 2027 spring break to study as part of a Tallahassee-based spring semester course. The department is hosting an information session to discuss the program and curriculum on Friday, Sept. 25, 11-noon in WMS 013 (Common Room).

More information about the program: https://lnkd.in/ePFQxSSg

09/22/2026

Congratulations, Candace! 👏

Candace Ward, Ph.D., in the FSU English Department, presented her paper “‘To Improve Their Condition’: Attitudes to Emigration in the Jamaican Colonial Press” and proposed and chaired the panel, “Labor Flows and Migration Debates in British Colonial Press Spaces, 1800-1914,” at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ annual conference at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. 📚✈️🇮🇪🇧

Florida State University

09/21/2026

What does it mean to be human amid the advancement of AI?

Guided by its 2026-2027 theme, “The Human in the Humanities,” the FSU Humanities Center will explore this question through a series of lectures beginning tomorrow, leading up to our annual conference in February.

To learn more about the Florida State University Humanities Center and its upcoming events — which include presentations by musicologists, literary scholars, philosophers, art historians and more — visit humanities.fsu.edu/events.

09/16/2026

09/16/2026

English department alumna Imani Sameen (Editing, Writing, and Media, B.A. 2026) is one of four Florida State University students selected for the 2026-2027 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Sameen will teach English in the Tak Province in Thailand through the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program.

Read the full story: https://news.fsu.edu/news/fsuglobal/2026/09/10/four-fsu-students-win-fulbright-awards-to-teach-research-and-connect-across-cultures/

09/03/2026

Tarez Samra Graban, Ph.D. in the FSU English Department, presented her papers on the UN World Conference on Women and South Africa’s Black Sash at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Portland, Oregon. 📖🕊️📜

Florida State University

09/02/2026

Florida State University is one of the nation’s top 20 public universities in TIME’s inaugural ranking of America’s Best Colleges. FSU ranked No. 17 among

09/01/2026

Kudos to Megharaj Adhikari and the other graduate student fellows at the FSU Humanities Center. Megha is a doctoral candidate working with Dr. Aaron Jaffe in the FSU Department of English. His dissertation, “Peak Modernism,” argues that modernism’s most radical formal experiments emerged from the encounter with altitude, geology, and deep time, reading the mountain not as a backdrop for human meaning but as an elemental medium in its own right. The project draws together modernist literature, expedition archives, media theory, ecocriticism, postcolonial thought, and Upanishadic cosmology.
Read more about Megha and the other dissertation fellows at: https://artsandsciences.fsu.edu/article/fsu-humanities-center-announces-inaugural-class-dissertation-fellows

09/01/2026

It's official! 🎉 Florida State University has launched the FSU Humanities Center within the FSU College of Arts & Sciences, establishing an interdisciplinary hub to advance humanities research and expand the field’s visibility across the university and beyond.

“The Humanities Center reflects the legacy of FSU’s commitment to the advancement of the humanities,” said FSU President Richard McCullough. “We are creating new opportunities for faculty, students, staff and the community to collaborate, pursue important research and further strengthen the humanities at FSU.”

Affiliated units from the FSU College of Arts and Sciences 📚
▶️ FSU Department of Classics
▶️ FSU English Department
▶️ FSU Department of History
▶️ FSU Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics
▶️ FSU Department of Philosophy
▶️ FSU Department of Religion

Affiliated units from the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University 🎨
▶️ FSU Department of Art History
▶️ Theatre and Performance Research program (The School of Theatre at Florida State)

Affiliated units from the Florida State University College of Music 🎶
▶️ Musicology program
▶️ Music Theory and Composition program

To check out the full story, visit: fla.st/UHJNSI2N.

Florida State University Division of Research