Department of English

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, 2011 

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill has published extensively and her works include poetry collections, children’s plays, screenplays, anthologies, articles, reviews and essays. Her other works include Féar Suaithinseach (1984); Feis (1991), and Cead Aighnis (2000). Ní Dhomhnaill's poems appear in English translation in the dual-language editions Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems (1986, 1988, 1990); The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Pharaoh's Daughter (1990), The Water Horse (2002), and The Fifty Minute Mermaid (2007). Selected Essays appeared in 2005.

Anne Curzan, 2011 

 Professor Anne Curzan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. She also has faculty appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the School of Education. Professor Curzan currently serves as Director of the English Department Writing Program and Co-Director of the Joint Ph.D. Program in English and Education. She received the University's Henry Russel Award for 2007, as well as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. In addition to her teaching, research, and administrative posts in the English Department, Professor Curzan is co-editor of the Journal of English Linguistics. She and her co-author Lisa Damour also run T.A. training workshops around the country.  

Jamaica Kincaid, 2007

Born in Antigua, Kincaid left the island at the age of 17 to become an au pair in New York (she refers to this job as when she was a “servant”). She went on to university in New Hampshire, but returned to Manhattan where Kincaid started out writing in The Village Voice and Ingenue. Eventually she became a New Yorker staff writer. Her short stories from The New Yorker later turned into longer works such as Annie John or became part of her collection entitled At the Bottom on the River, for which she won the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts. Kincaid was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard University since 1992.