Professor of English Dana Spiotta and her colleagues receive a Creative Capital Award for their new floating opera, Newtown Odyssey.

The Department of English has kicked off a student ambassador program. We recently caught up with two ambassadors.

Sternlicht, professor emeritus of English, retired from Syracuse University in 2011.

Professor Scott Manning Stevens receives a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Hungary and conduct research at ethnographic museums throughout the country.

In early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began, Syracuse University doctoral student Haejoo Kim was studying alternative health practices among the 19th-century British. She noticed similarities to what was happening in present-day America. Kim, who is working on a doctorate in English, discusses what she learned, including how ideas about personal freedom clashed with public health efforts.

When we think of writers, we often fall back on stereotypes—I picture an asthmatic writer with poor posture wearing a beret (why a beret? who knows!) working alone in an attic, who drinks heavily while chewing on his pencil while talking to a rat, his only friend.

Author of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain featured in Los Angeles Review of Books.

A panel discussion that brings together three scholars working in the growing interdisciplinary field of medical humanities.