Department of English

Faculty Projects

Brandon Callender

"Black Queer Representation, Intimacy and Violence," a conversation inspired by the Rose exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

Emilie Diouf

Public Humanities Grant for her collaborative project “Women Writing” Écrire au féminin.

2019-2020 Teaching Innovation Grant Recipient 

2019 Book Project and Article 

Caren Irr

Editing Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology

Writing a book about the Mass Central Rail Trail 

Dorothy Kim

Dorothy Kim: Winner of the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Book Prize for Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities

Thomas King

2023 Mandel Faculty Grant for Public Humanities/Community Engagement for his project, Urban Pastoral

John Plotz

Recall this Book Podcast

Novel Dialogue Podcast

The B-Side Books series at Public Books

Co-Director, Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, a program to provide educational opportunities for people impacted by the criminal justice system. BEJI partners with Boston-area prisons, jails, re-entry programs, and other organizations.

David Sherman

Co-Director, Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, a program to provide educational opportunities for people impacted by the criminal justice system. BEJI partners with Boston-area prisons, jails, re-entry programs, and other organizations.

Co-Director, The Elegy Project. This public poetry initiative distributes poems on cardstock for strangers as a way to make our shared world more interesting and grief less lonely.

Current books: The Machine Stops: Modernism, Human Fungibility, and the Critique of Secular Hope and Inventing Farewell   

Ramie Targoff

Recipient of a Teaching Across the Disciplines: 2022-23 Team Teaching Grant for "If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree: Expressive Verse and Music in Renaissance England and Italy," in partnership with Sarah Mead (MUS, Medieval and Renaissance Studies).