Congratulations, MA Class of 2016!
We are proud to announce our 2016 English Masters!
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The Great Bard Bake-Off!
For the first time ever, the Villanova English grad program put on their very own literary bake-off! All contestants had to bake a Shakespeare-inspired sweet for the Bard's 452nd birthday. Our graduate participants in front of their work! The entries were as delicious as they were creative! Traditionally made Elizabethan Lemon Cakes Romeo & Juliet inspired apple crumb Opeelia! - candied orange peels dipped in chocolate Coffee and Chocolate two layer cake "Blood will have blood" so says this Red Velvet cake And finally the bake-off winner, Laura Tscherry's There's Rosemary and Lemon Tart - That's for Remembrance
Come down the rabbit hole with Villanova's English department
Dr. Mary Mullen organized and hosted our Alice's Adventures in Wonderland event this March, to get success! Dr. Mary Mullen - picture from Villanova English blog "Yes, that's it!," said the Hatter with a sigh. "It's always tea time!" There were games, prizes, trivia and a live reading of the tea party scene! And what would a birthday be without cake? Happy 150th birthday, Alice!
The 2016 Literary Festival Begins this Thursday!
Kicking off this year's Literary Festival is Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo. Come down to the Connelly Center Cinema at 7:00PM this Thursday, January 28. We can't wait to see you there!
Do you even lit, bro?
Show your love for the Villanova English department this year! The shirts were unveiled at the Holiday Coffee Break in December (pictured below), and you can pick yours up from the department office for just $10. These cool, funny tees were designed by the department's undergrads Christie Leonard and Kevin Madden. Dr. Chiji Akoma and Dr. Crystal Lucky pose with some of our grad students We hope to see you all at the next department coffee break!
2016 Literary Festival!
The English Department is pleased to announce the line-up for the 2016 Villanova University Literary Festival. All readings will be at 7pm. The locations will be announced soon. January 28: Gregory Pardlo Gregory Pardlo's collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and is a current finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. Pardlo's poems appear in The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry,Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Pardlo lives with his family in Brooklyn. February 11: Dan Torday Daniel Torday is the author of the novel The Last Flight of Poxl West. His novella, The Sensualist, won the ...