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USF Students Help Launch Grammy Winner’s Latest Studio Album
When Grammy Award winning jazz musician Lannie Battistini releases his fourth studio album this month, students in the University of South Florida Department of English will know they played an integral role in its success.
May 8, 2019Department News
Summer 2019 English Department Accomplishments
With the Summer semester just around the corner, we are happy to announce the accomplishments our faculty and students have done.
May 1, 2019Honors and Awards
Fulbright Teaching Assistantship Awarded to English Alumna
USF Department of English alumna Allyson Hoffman received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and was accepted to the PhD program at Western Michigan University.
April 26, 2019Alumni News
English Dept Yice Irizarry Award
English Professor Ylce Irizarry was recently honored with two awards for her book "Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad," originally released in 2016.
April 15, 2019Honors and Awards
Annual MFA Event Took Place at USF’s Contemporary Art Museum
The creative writing department’s annual MFA graduation reading, Curtain Call, took place at USF’s Contemporary Art Museum. This year’s ten graduates read for a packed house of around 200 audience members.
April 12, 2019Events
Spring 2019 English Department Accomplishments
With the semester coming to an end, we are honored to celebrate our talented faculty and students of the Spring 2019 term.
April 10, 2019Honors and Awards
USF Poets Sweep Top Spots for Georgia Poetry Prize
The Creative Writing Program at USF is pleased to congratulate Chelsea Dingman, a poet and alumnae of USF's MFA program, for winning the 2018 Georgia Poetry Prize.
March 29, 2019Department News
Saw Palm Celebrates Release of 13th Issue
The staff behind Saw Palm, USF’s Florida-themed literary magazine run by the Creative Writing Program’s MFA students, hosted a release party at Southern Brewing & Winemaking on Friday, March 1. This party celebrated the completion and release of the 13th issue of Saw Palm.
March 26, 2019Events
English Student Awarded Research Travel Grant
USF Literature MA student Scott Simeral was awarded this semester a competitive William J. Hill Visiting Researcher Travel Grant from the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX.
March 21, 2019Honors and Awards
Vintage-Themed Reading Features USF English Students
The USF English Department hosted its spring 2019 installment of the 6x6 reading on Feb. 22 at Felicitous Coffee and Tea on 42nd Street. The reading featured six undergraduate and six graduate students who shared their creative writing of 1,000 words or fewer.
February 27, 2019Events
‘Writers with Conviction:’ Teaching Fiction in a Men’s Correctional Facility
For Adam Carter, 3rd year MFA at the University of South Florida, a graduate internship became a unique opportunity to harness his professional background with his studies in fiction writing.
January 28, 2019Department News