Department Archives: English

Jessica Workman, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, presented her paper , “Chasing Posthuman Reality: Simulacra, Advertising, and Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.” at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference in San Antonio, TX, on April 20-23, 2011.

UCF is featured in The Huffington Post‘s “Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs.” The article notes that UCF’s Creative Writing MFA Program “fully funds nearly all its incoming students” and deserves more attention from applicants. Read the complete story from The Huffington Post or from UCF Today.

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés’s Everyday Chica has now been set to music. Winner of the 2010 Longleaf Press Poetry Award, Everyday Chica offers readers an evocative poetic rendering of the Cuban-American experience in language so personal and deeply felt that it becomes for readers the universal language of all natives and exiles, of dislocations and homecomings. […]

UCF Film’s Barry Sandler teamed up with fellow Associate Professor of English Tison Pugh to write an essay for an upcoming book entitled Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s. Their essay revolves around the life and work of Montgomery Clift. The book will be released on August 13, 2010. Read the complete article […]

Anna Maria Jones received UCF’s Women’s Research Center 2010 Award in the Arts and Humanities. She becomes the 16th recipient of the annual award initiated in 2002. The award defrays some of the costs of research and production associated with her scholarly research and production of her book-length manuscript Self-Possessed: Gothic Agency and the Haunting […]

Brenna Egan and Nátalia Marques da Silva received the Order of Pegasus, UCF’s most prestigious student award. President John C. Hitt and Provost and Executive Vice President Terry Hickey were in attendance to congratulate the 2010 inductees and assist with the presentation of their award medals. Brenna Egan is a dual major in legal studies […]

The College of Arts and Humanities announces the 2009-2010 recipients of Research Incentive Awards: Mark Kamrath – English Keith Folse – Modern Languages Kristin Congdon – Philosophy See the 2008-2009 RIA award winners.

In the April 11 edition of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jennifer Schuessler quotes Craig Saper in her review of Bob Brown’s The Readies. Saper is writing a biography of Brown, who Schuessler calls “a godfather of the reading machine” and “nearly forgotten early-20th-century writer and impresario.” An online simulation of Brown’s reading […]

Heather Wayne, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, presented her paper “Gazing Women ‘Becoming’ Objects: The Female Artist Performs Subjectivity in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis” at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association’s annual conference in Tampa, Florida.

Jessica Masri, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, has been accepted to the Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition program at the University of South Florida beginning fall 2010.