Thomas Heffernan, the Kenneth Curry Professor in English and Religious Studies, was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct a five-week seminar for college teachers on the autobiographies of Saint Augustine and Perpetua of Carthage, two of the most prominent religious autobiographies written in late Antiquity.

Recognizing Martin Griffin for his recently published book Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900.

Author: La Vinia Delois Jennings
Toni Morrison’s fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols play in her work.

Urmila Seshagiri, assistant professor in English, will hold the department’s Allen Carroll Distinguished Teaching Professor for the next two academic years.

Rickey Fayne Jr., a junior in the English department, has been accepted to participate in the Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies (SILCS) to study literary and cultural theory and learn from a number of top scholars