English at Buffalo
306 Clemens Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-2575
FAX: 716-645-5980
For over half a century, the English Department at the University at Buffalo has been at the forefront of innovative writing and cultural criticism. It is internationally renowned as a place where the exploration of new ideas happens. Faculty have included poets and novelists who have helped shape contemporary writing—including Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Susan Howe, and John Barth. The department’s scholarly faculty has been similarly ground-breaking in bringing new ideas to the field—asking what literature is, how it matters to our lives, how it intersects with multiple aspects of culture, and what makes the study of literature vital for local and global understanding.
For more information, visit: English Major
Upcoming Events
English Department Alumni Reunion
For information on the reunion, click here
Emily Dickinson Symposium
Featuring students from ENG 587 graduate seminar
April 30, 12:30-4:30 pm
306 Clemens Hall
Reception to follow
English Department Alumni Reunion
April 13-14, 2012
Please visit our website for more details:
www.english.buffalo.edu
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Faculty Books & Awards
 Professor Joan Copjec’s El Compacto sexual (The Sexual Compact) was published by Paradiso editores (in coedition with 17, Instituto de Estudios Criticos, Mexico). El Compacto Sexual brings together and translates into Spanish two long essays, unpublished in English, and an interview conducted by the book's editors, Benjamin Mayer Foulkes and Alejandro Cerda Rueda,
with the author about her current project, which situates itself between Paris and Tehran, Lacanian psychoanalysis and medieval Islamic theosophy. Compact describes a space created by a series that converges toward a limit. Copjec discusses the way this space operates to produce sexual difference and to define images, in the primary sense.
 Professor Joseph Valente’s newly released The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922 (University of Illinois Press, 2011)
offers the first contextually precise account of the male anxieties haunting revolutionary Ireland and demonstrates how the late Victorian ethos of manliness served to translate British rule as British hegemony and Irish resistance as Irish psychomachia. Professor Valente has also edited Urban Ireland, a Special Issue of Eire-Ireland (XLV. 1-2, 2010).
For other recent publications and awards by English faculty, go to faculty accomplishments
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