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Arts & Humanities: English & Literature
- Media Shelf (Spring 2009)
The latest creative output of Coleman Barks, professor emeritus of literature, is profiled in the Audio section. - Media Shelf (Fall 2008)
“Venice from the Ground Up” and “The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature” are profiled in the Books and Research Tools sections. - Media Shelf (Spring 2008)
“Figuratively Speaking” by Sarah Spence is profiled in the Books section. - Inquiring Young Minds (Spring 2008)
CURO gives undergraduates some genuine research opportunities. - Awards & Honors (Spring 2008)
Sarah Spence, professor of Classics, is profiled as a recipient of the 2008 Albert Christ-Janer Award. - Media Shelf (Winter 2008)
“Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage” and “Labors Lost Left Unfinished: Poems” are profiled in the Books section. - Media Shelf (Fall 2007)
“The Blake Digital Text Project” is profiled in the Research Tools section and “Earth, Air, Fire & Water” is profiled in the Audio section. - Media Shelf (Spring 2007)
“Ents, Elves & Eriador,” “American Indian Literary Nationalism” and “In the Morning: Reflections from First Light” are profiled in the Books section. - Awards & Honors (Winter 2007)
Elissa R. Henken, professor of English, is named an American Folklore Society Fellow. - Media Shelf (Winter 2007)
“The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases” is profiled in the Books section. - Media Shelf (Fall 2006)
“A Distant Flame” is profiled in the Books section. - The Media Are the Message (Summer 2006)
A UGA professor analyzes the links between technology and language. - Media Shelf (Summer 2006)
“Is This English?” and “Memory’s Keep” are profiled in the Books section. - Media Shelf (Fall/Winter 2005)
“A Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems” and “Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation” are profiled in the Books section. - In Black and White (Summer 2005)
Literature by a 19th century French woman gives new insight into slavery. - Plagiarism (Summer 2005)
To avoid this journalistic felony, educators must teach how to do journalism the right way. - Unsentimental Biographer (Summer/Fall 2003)
What is biography? To start with, years of searching attics, sorting through "rat-chewed papers: and uncovering intimate details of daily life. - Dragon Slayer (Summer 2001)
Old literary legends from many lands may have a common ancestor. - FolkloreWhere Fact Meets Fiction (Spring 2000)
Georgia folklore abounds with legends of Sherman's March to the Sea. Many towns - including some never visited by the general's troops - have spawned stories about how they were spared from the torch. - Poetic Justice (Spring 2000)
New technology provides better translations of ancient Ugaritic verse. - The Quilting of Cultures (Fall 1998)
Judith Ortiz Cofer's writings about growing up between two cultures - a tropical island and a cold city - are gaining her national literary prominence. - A Case of
Literary Arson (Spring 1998)
Joel Black looks at Richard Wright's Native Son in a new light. - Keeping the Faith (Summer 1997)
A recent survey shows the percentage of scientists who believe in God hasn't budged since the turn of the century. - Love in Ernest (Summer 1997)
James Nagel's latest book on Ernest Hemingway portrays a wounded and vulnerable young soldier in love with his nurse. - Transforming Genetic Lingo (Spring 1996)
Our rhetoric may reflect how we percieve our choices about genetics and reproduction. Celeste Condit's research sheds new light on the issue. - Conjunction
Junction (Fall 1993)
Linguist Jared Klein reconstructs the unwritten history of and, a common but essential component of everyday conversation. - P.C., P.R., and Research in the '90s (Fall 1992)
English professor Margaret Dickie advocates diversity in curricula and research to reflect the cultural composition on today's campus. - To Span the Globe (Fall 1992)
It's a tall order but, with help from Franklin Hildy, an expert on Elizabethan theater architecture, a replica of the 16th century Globe theater will open in London in time to celebrate Shakespeare's 430th birthday. - On the Trail of
Hardy's Prose (Spring 1992)
A search for the novelist's original prose among the numerous editions.