Greetings from the UW’s Seattle campus. It’s springtime after cherry-blossom season. Starting in mid-March, 90-year-old cherry trees on the Quad sprout tiny pink buds. Anticipation builds; thousands of spectators from the campus and beyond look forward to a future they know is coming. And then one week later, the future arrives: 29 trees burst into pink-white bloom. The Quad is transformed. People dress in their graduation-wedding-day-family-photo… Read more
Ó Tuama, Professor Charles LaPorte, and PhD student Molly Porter
On Wednesday, April 2nd, the UW English Department had the honor of hosting celebrated poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama for a public lecture as part of the 8th Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics.
After… Read more
Congratulations to Professor John Webster, who retired this past Winter! Professor Webster received his B.A. from UCLA in 1967; he received a M.A. from UC Berkeley in 1969 and a Ph.D., also from Berkeley, in 1974. He joined the faculty in the UW English department in 1972. In his over 53 years at the University of Washington, Professor Webster has the distinction of effectively establishing two careers: first as a scholar of early modern poetic forms and the editor and translator of … Read more
We will greatly miss Professor David Bosworth, who is retiring this year! Professor Bosworth received his B.A from Brown University in English and American Literature in 1969, and joined the faculty at UW English department faculty in 1984. Throughout his long career, Professor Bosworth has published in a wide range of forms, from short fiction, to the novel, to poetry, to the critical essay.
Prior to his arrival at the UW, his book of short… Read more
Will Generative AI end college writing as we know it?
This question may strike you as a bit alarmist. But after surveying the proliferation of thinkpieces announcing as much—on top of the ambient sense that AI’s reign has only just begun—one would be forgiven for asking.
Take one of the first broadsides in what we might call an emerging genre: The Atlantic’s “… Read more
We have some truly impressive students here in the English Department! From plays to poetry to short stories to art installations, the range of interests and talent is hard to wrap one’s head around. But one thing is for certain: these influences make our campus richer and our classrooms more engaging. Congratulations to all on your accomplishments!
UW and National Awards and Recognition
Jacqueline Patterson read PhD candidate… Read more
Novels, Stories, and Poetry Collections
Exhibition Text, D. Frederick Thomas (MFA 2014)
Vagabond Press, October 2024
From the press:
Invited by a formerly estranged friend to write about her enigmatic new artwork for an upcoming show, an unnamed narrator makes the journey from Brisbane to Baltimore hoping to make sense of things… Read more