English Department

Jonathan Wilcox, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0454.
For more information, visit http://www.english.uiowa.edu.

Students in the English Department are actively involved in the processes of creating, interpreting, and publishing a variety of texts. They experiment with diverse styles and perspectives, working with materials that range from literary classics to contemporary film, from the Anglo-American canon to multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist expansions of that canon, from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography, electronic, and multimedia writing.

Articles:
UI expands writing options for undergrads
Iowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible
“Writers Gone Public” Readings
7 University of Iowa Graduates Make The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” List
UI Unveils 30 Years of Interviews with International Writers
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
‘Dream Not of Other Worlds,’ by Huston Diehl

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Past Events:
Earthwords reading, 4/30/11
“City of Lit” Iowa Authors Event, 4/27/11
UNESCO Gala Event, 4/07/09
Scott Russell Sanders reading, 4/09/08
Saturday Scholars Lecture: “Ethical Activism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver”, 10/20/07
Jeff Porter reading, 10/18/07
“A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa”: Exhibit Opening, 10/12/07
Robert von Hallberg, “The Recovery of Sentiment in Popular U.S. Poetry of the 1940s and 1950s”, 4/06/07
James Sullivan, “Poetry Broadsides: Looking at the Printed Poem, Holding It in Your Hand”, 4/06/07
James Sullivan, “American Poetry Broadsides of the Last 40 Years”, 4/06/07
Poetries Symposium Luncheon Sessions, 4/06/07
“The Futures of Poetry Studies” Panel, 4/06/07
Cary Nelson, “When Context Is All: The Specificity of Popular Poetry”, 4/05/07
Robert von Hallberg, “The Recovery of Sentiment in Popular U.S. Poetry of the of the 1940s and 1950s, 3/06/07
James Tate, 10/26/06