On Thursday, September 21, 2017, Vuong received a £5,000 award for his book Night Sky With Exit Wounds from the Forward Prizes, the annual awards which have been dubbed the "poetry Oscars."  Vuong...

A two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, Ms. Natasha Trethewey draws much of her writing from extensive research. Her poetry is often anchored in the complex history of racial and social inequity in the...

Kamila Shamsie '88 MFA is seeing praise for her new novel Home Fire, a retelling of Sophocles' ancient Greek play Antigone. In a recent New York Times review, Home Fire is described as having "one of the most memorable final scenes... in a novel this century".

We are delighted to announce that three new faculty members will be joining the Department of English in the fall 2017 semester....

The UMass Amherst Department of English will revive a long running symposium devoted to the study of the teaching of writing, founded and endowed in 1999 by Professor Peter Elbow. 

On April 21, fifteen senior English majors traveled to New York City for the English department’s first-ever Career Roundtable through the College of Humanities and Fine Arts’ New York Professional Outreach Program.