Category: Faculty
December 15, 2015
Professor Adam Johnson, recently the recipient of the National Book Award in fiction, weighs in on the power of the short story, the need for...
September 1, 2015
Using handwriting analysis, Stanford manuscript expert Elaine Treharne shows for the first time that one of the world's most famous documents...
July 13, 2015
If you pick classes as if you're choosing from menus, The American West is where you go for fusion. Besides blending history, geography and...
June 22, 2015
A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is...
March 13, 2015
By Nate Sloan From jazz to theater to children's books, Stanford Professor Michele Elam's forthcoming edited volume explores the panoramic...
February 26, 2015
By Erik Fredner In her latest book of poetry, A Woman Without a Country , English Professor Eavan Boland draws on decades of thinking, reading...
February 2, 2015
By Marguerite Rigoglioso Digital tools, including a free, public online manuscript training course, are allowing English professor and medieval...
October 29, 2014
Professor Elaine Treharne reached into her purse and pulled out an original Gothic manuscript that dated back more than three centuries. “See...
October 27, 2014
Provost John Etchemendy announced Thursday that nine Stanford faculty members had been named or reappointed Bass University Fellows...
September 23, 2014
Stanford Text Technologies is directed by Elaine Treharne, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English. This...
August 26, 2014
Stanford undergraduate, Quyen Nguyen, interviewed Professor Tobias Wolff about vocation and morality as part of a course on public service at...
August 14, 2014
Stanford English Professor Andrea Lunsford says today's writing instruction should teach students how to become better writers for social media...
August 26, 2013
Drawing connections through 15 centuries of historical data, Kindred Britain reveals how an interconnected network of families influenced...
August 22, 2013
The novelist Richard Powers will be joining the faculty of the English Department this Fall as the Phil and Penny Knight Professor of Creative...
June 5, 2013
The Walter J. Gores Awards are the university's highest teaching honor. They are named for Professor Walter J. Gores, a member of the Stanford...
April 15, 2013
By Brooke Donald Adam Johnson, an associate professor of English at Stanford, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Orphan...
