Announcements

English Major Student Perception Survey ZS48826

Welcome!

The English Department at Florida International University operates on two campuses in Miami-Dade County as well as outreach, foreign study and Broward County centers.

The Department houses the Literature faculty, Composition, Creative Writing and Linguistics programs on graduate and undergraduate levels.

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Professor Campbell McGrath's new book, Seven Notebooks, is now available

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Professor Campbell McGrath's new book, Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2008), has been greeted as a major event in contemporary American poetry, receiving coverage in such diverse national venues as the L.A. Times and the Wall Street Journal. It has been hailed by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky in the Washington Post, as "large, complex and entertaining." Publisher's Weekly calls it "big, ambitious, optimistic," while Library Journal considers it "fun, serious, moving." The New York Sun views the book as "a marvelous example of Mr. McGrath's formal gifts, his genial humor, and his tremendous descriptive powers."

Additionally, 14 Views of Miami, a video/poetry project, created by McGrath in collaboration with John Stuart, Associate Professor of Architecture, will receive its world premiers at the Wolfsonian-FIU on April 8, 2008.

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John Evans was just awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.

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John Evans, who received his MFA from FIU last year, was just awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. This is about the most prestigious distinction available to writers who have received an MFA, but not yet made their mark as published authors. He will be in residence at Stanford for two years, take workshops with other Stegner Fellows, and receive a stipend of $26,000, plus tuition and health care. He has an option to remain at Stanford for a third year, teaching creative writing to undergraduates. Past Stegner Fellows include Raymond Carver, Phillip Levine and Larry McMurtry, among many illustrious others. Given the tragedy and turmoil of John's past year, this is a marvelous turn of events. It's not bad for FIU, either, to have our comrades so highly regarded in the world.

Additionally, 14 Views of Miami, a video/poetry project, created by evans in collaboration with John Stuart, Associate Professor of Architecture, will receive its world premiers at the Wolfsonian-FIU on April 8, 2008.