With more than a hundred full-time faculty and teaching fellows, the Department of English is one of the largest and most diverse in the College of Arts and Sciences, which recognized our outstanding efforts in 2008 with a Superior Performance Award.

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Nicole Smith
Nicole Smith

Assistant Professor Nicole Smith has won UNT's 2011 J. H. Shelton Excellence in Teaching Award.

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The Department of English at the University of North Texas cultivates scholarly/creative achievement and provides graduate- and undergraduate-level instruction in the areas of Anglophone literary and cultural studies, creative writing, and rhetoric/composition. We strive to promote greater understanding of literary and cultural texts and to guide students toward practical fluency in literary theory; to contribute to the literary traditions of the language by fostering the creation of new works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; to develop theories and methods of writing instruction; and to investigate the history and forms of persuasive writing.

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Deborah Needleman Armintor publishes new book

Deborah Needleman Armintor's new book, "The Little Everyman: Stature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Literature," is now out from the University of Washington Press.
For details, see:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ARMLIT.html

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KERA features "East of the West" author Miroslav Penkov

 
KERA's "Art and Seek" website includes a feature on Miroslav Penkov and his new book, "East of the West: A Country in Stories," now out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Stephanie Hawkins wins NEH Summer Stipend

Stephanie Hawkins has won a $6,000 Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled: Modern Science, Modernist Art: The Radical Empiricism of William James.

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