About the Department
The Department of English at the University of Florida is committed to rigor, diversity, innovation, and excellence. This is reflected in the range and depth of our graduate and undergraduate programs and the research and publications of the faculty, which was ranked 8th among all graduate English faculties surveyed in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index…
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Upcoming Events in the Department
10/9/08
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Diya Chaudhuri and Halvor Aakhus will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
10/23/08
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA student Philip Pinch will read from his fiction. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
10/29/08
A Reading by Honor Moore. Moore is the author of The Bishop’s Daughter (2008), a memoir, published in paperback in May, 2009 by W.W. Norton. 8 PM. Smathers Library East, Room 1A.
11/6/08
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Jessica Hammack and David Blanton will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
11/6-11/7/08
Cultural Currency and Literary Exchange: Cultivating Texts as Commodity. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Susan Rosenbaum. Details TBA.
11/7–11/8/08
2008 Florida Writers’ Festival, 2nd edition.Readings and informal talks by Pete Dexter, Marshall N. Klimasewiski, and Elizabeth Spires. The readings will take place at 8 PM on both Friday and Saturday. The informal talks will occur at 12 PM Saturday. Smathers Library East, Room 1A.
11/20/08
MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Laura Deily and Sarah Sheldon will read from their fiction and poetry. 8 PM. Volta Coffee, 48 SW 2nd Street.
2/20-2/26/09
“FLEX,” the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the annual showcase for short media by national and international artists, will take place at several venues in Gainesville. For more information, see the FLEX WWW site.
3/6-3/7/09
“Discursive Treatments of Media and Materiality.” The Digital Assembly will be holding its 4th annual conference. For more information, see the conference website or contact Elise Takehana <takehana@ufl.edu>.
3/21-3/22/09
Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization.The 7th annual UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels will include speakers Jessica Abel, Sara Cooper, Matt Madden, and Susan Napier. Details TBA.
4/2/09
Poetry reading by Debora Greger, Michael Hofmann, William Logan, and Sidney Wade in celebration of National Poetry Month. 7 PM, Harn Museum of Art.
