Pearl James, associate professor in the University of Kentucky Department of English, will deliver the first lecture of this semester's Chellgren Seminar Series.

Carol Mason's class examines the range of representation in images of Appalachia and Appalachians in popular media.

Six University of Kentucky educators were recently named recipients of the UK Alumni Association 2015 Great Teacher Award.

It was an excellent summer for the Department of English as six faculty members published books in highly-regarded presses.