UVM English M.A. Program

Event Announcement!

What: Ph.D. Application Workshop
When: Monday, 7 October, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Lafayette L202

Patricia Mardeusz, the library liaison for our department, will be holding a one-hour library orientation on Thursday, September 5th at 4:00 p.m. New students should plan to attend this orientation. Returning students who need a refresher are also welcome.

The orientation will take place in the Library Classroom (first floor, Bailey/Howe) for the first 30 minutes and then involve a tour of the library's physical space for the final 30 minutes.

Are you attending Commencement this weekend? I am! (I never pass up an opportunity to wear academic regalia in public.)

Hope to see many of you there: Saturday, 18 May, 1:00, Patrick Gym.

Lineup for faculty and graduates begins at noon in the Multipurpose Facility in the Athletic Complex.

Congratulations to all of our graduates!

Thanks to everyone who came out for our year-end celebration today. It was a lot of fun.

Congratulations to Brendan Donaghey, winner of this year's Tupper Award!

And congratulations to Taylor Sacco, winner of the Graduate College's GTA of the Year Award!

Are you looking for a summer course? Perhaps you should take Professor Jenemann's seminar:

FTS 272/ENGS 282 Film Noir and Hardboiled Fiction

Both film noir and the literary genre that inspired it, hardboiled fiction, have had a profound influence on the history of cinema and literature, our understanding of modernism, and contemporary concepts of subjectivity. In this class, we will examine some of the key literary practitioners of the hardboiled genre and their cinematic adaptations. Texts considered will include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Maltese Falcon, and the Big Sleep, as well as contemporary rewprkings of the genre.