UB English Department
306 Clemens Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-2575
FAX: 716-645-5980
Department Officers
Cristanne Miller
Department Chair
Office: 320 Clemens Hall
View the full list of department officers.
Recent News and This Week's Events
Congratulations to our 2008 Writing Prize winners:
Marina Blitshteyn, George Knight Houpt Prize and the Arthur Axlerod Award
Alex Johnston, English Department Essay Prize
Jungmin Kim, Scribbler's Prize
Dan Lesniak, The Albert Cook, The Mac Hammond, the John Logan Prize, and the Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize
Maura Pellettieri, The Albert Cook, The Mac Hammond, and the John Logan Prize
Professor Andy Stott has won the 2007 Royal Society of Literature's RSL/Jerwood award, for a "first major commissioned work of non-fiction" for his biography of the Regency clown, Joseph Grimaldi, to be published by Canongate. Andy will be traveling to London to collect his award. Congratulations, Andy! You can find the official announcement on the Royal Society of Literature's website. ( http://www.rslit.org/jerwood.htm)
PhD student Victoria Brockmeier has been awarded this year's T. S. Eliot Prize, judged by Grace Schulman, for her first book of poems, my maiden cowboy names. It had previously been shortlisted for the Walt Whitman Award, the Colorado Poetry Prize, the Brittingham and Felix Pollack Prizes, and Tupelo Press's open readings series, and will be published later this year by Truman State University Press. More information about the award can be found here:
(https://tsup.truman.edu/TSEliotPrize/previousWinners.aspx). Congratulations, Victoria!
Undergraduate Maura Pellettieri has won a prize for her eco-themed short story, ""If You Go Looking for Life, Be Sure To Pack A Lunch." The prize consists of an invitation and all expenses paid trip to the UN's Year of Planet Earth Conference in Paris in February 2008 and an invitation to South Africa's 2008 Grahamstown Science Festival. Congratulations, Maura!
