Opera stars Maya Kherani and Thomas Michael Allen perform at the 7th Art Song Festival

February 16, 2024.Reading time 5 minutes.

The Art Song Festival at Fresno State is not just an event; it’s a cultural expedition that spans three days of performances, masterclasses, competitions, lectures and discussions.

Levine Prize for Poetry announces new partnership, names 2023 winner

February 12, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Southern California author William Archila won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest

Professor Emeritus Stanley Poss passes away at 96

January 30, 2024.Reading time 10 minutes.

Dr. Stanley Poss in 2014. Photo credit: John Alden/JA Photography

Dr. Stanley Poss, a Fresno State professor emeritus of English, passed away on Dec. 14, 2023, in Fresno. He was 96.

Professor Emerita Judith Rosenthal passes away at 78

January 22, 2024.Reading time 15 minutes.

Dr. Judith A. Rosenthal, a feminist literary scholar and Fresno State professor emerita of English, passed away from pancreatic cancer on Dec. 25, 2023. She was 78.

English symposium navigates, reconstructs environment

November 28, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Author, translator, and Stanford University professor Roanne L. Kantor will deliver the keynote address for Fresno State’s seventh annual Students of English Studies Association symposium.

New scholarship benefits English Department students

October 16, 2023.Reading time 18 minutes.

Two different photos of Alberto and Luis. On the left, he has a short beard, a flannel shirt, and is standing in front of a brick wall. On the right, he has a goatee, side part, blue hoodie, and is standing outside with trees behind him.

With $2,905 in initial gifts from 39 students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community friends — most of those coming during Fresno State’s annual Day of Giving campaign — the English Department successfully established the new English Department Scholarship fund in 2022.

MFA students perform at 2023 LitHop festival

October 10, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

More than 100 writers will gather in Fresno’s Tower District on Saturday, Oct. 14 for LitHop 2023, the city’s free literary festival.

Digital humanities and art students present their London work at M Street exhibit

October 9, 2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

Lucca Lorenzi shows off his group presentation of "The Bloomsbury Boys"

With about three months to reflect on their experience, Fresno State students were present at Fresno State’s M Street Graduate Studios gallery during ArtHop to show off their paintings and projects in a unique exhibition that combined digital humanities with the fine arts.

Creative Writing Program hosts trio of October author readings

September 25, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Three headshots of Meg Day, with their head turned to the left; Lars Horn and Brian Turner in black and white..

Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing will host three author readings in the month of October — one featuring the program’s faculty authors, one a celebration of contemporary queer literature, and one welcoming back to campus an alumni author with three new poetry collections being published this fall.

New Faces: Juan Carlos Mantilla

September 8, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty Juan Carlos Mantilla to the Department of English. Dr. Mantilla is an Ecuadorian scholar of the art histories and comparative literatures of early modernity.