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Jul 25, 2025

Director of the Center of Digital Humanities Research and Professor of English Dr. Maura Ives received an $8,000 award for her project, “The Letters Of Jean Ingelow,” to recover the voice of this once hugely popular author.

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Jul 24, 2025

A professor emeritus and proud descendant of Czech Moravian immigrants, Machann is preserving the legacy of Texas’s Czech community through a new endowed fund that supports cultural research, exchange and education.

The Albritton Tower on the campus of Texas A&M at night..
May 13, 2025

Prestigious professorships and fellowships recognize Texas A&M scholars whose work is transforming their fields and inspiring the next generation.

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Mar 18, 2025

Representing over a quarter of this year’s university-wide honorees, these exceptional faculty members are recognized for their excellence in teaching, research and mentoring at Texas A&M.

Margaret Ezell sits at a table holding a quill pen. On the table sits a typewriter and a laptop.
Feb 20, 2025

Dr. Margaret Ezell, a distinguished professor in the Department of English, explores the parallels between 17th and 18th century manuscript culture and today's social media platforms in her most recent, open-access publication Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media.

Washington DC, USA - June 2017: Youth in their sneakers standing by the marker engraving memorializing the location of where Martin Luther King made his famous "I have a Dream" speech.
Jan 20, 2025

Dr. Ira Dworkin, associate professor in the Department of English, explores how literature by Black writers, from Henry Dumas to Toni Morrison, influenced social and political change throughout the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

Spaceship with the moon vector. Ufo in space vector. Science Fiction Day Poster, January 2.
Jan 2, 2025

Dr. James Francis from the Texas A&M Department of English examines how science fiction, from early works like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to recent films such as Coralie Fargeat's The Substance, continues to reflect and shape humanity’s understanding of science, society and the future.

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Nov 22, 2024

A gift from English former student Susan V. Fontaine ’77 will establish a lab in the Department of English where students and faculty explore AI technology, the future of writing and the relationship between the two.

Three older females smile as the one in the center holds up a cell phone to take a selfie while standing at the outer edges of a racetrack
Nov 7, 2024

The ancient classical texts of Hinduism taught that every age and stage of life need not be lived as a breathless race. They proposed living according to one’s natural capabilities.

A silhouetted hooded figure holding a machete-type knife poised to strike as smoke swirls against a blood-red background
Oct 25, 2024

The kills in scary films are bloodier than ever, but that doesn’t necessarily make them scarier, according to Texas A&M English professor Dr. James Francis.