ASU Tempe campus students: Looking for someone who understands what it's like to navigate your major? *Or* are you ready to use your own experience to help another student succeed? Join the Dept. of English Peer Mentor Program 🤝 Apply by Sep. 4. Details: https://ow.ly/1aiV50ZHMro #ASUHumanities

ASU Project Humanities, led by English professor Neal Lester, will host its 13th annual Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good 🫶 this Oct. 9–11 on ASU’s Tempe campus. Learn more: https://ow.ly/5bMT50ZFrGZ #ASUHumanities

ASU Project Humanities launches 13th annual Hacks for Humanity | ASU News

ASU Project Humanities will host its 13th annual Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good from Oct. 9–11 at the Memorial Union on ASU’s Tempe campus.

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🤖📚 Fiction Friday: "They walked through the stacks, occasionally skirting around the robots..." From the story "High Intensity Stacks" by ASU's Andrew Dana Hudson. Read it in the Center for Science and the Imagination's "Reimagining Public Goods" chapbook: https://ow.ly/zSfX50ZETmb #ASUHumanities

Before they were famous—and sometimes afterward—they were Sun Devils. 🔱 A good many of them were English and film and media studies majors! How many of these superstars did you know attended ASU? https://ow.ly/eIz650ZFr3t #ASUHumanities

Famous ASU alumni | ASU News

Before they were actors, athletes, businesspeople and leaders, they were ASU students. See which stars attended the university before stepping onto larger stages. Ludwig Ahgren, ’17 BA in English (literature) and journalism — YouTuber with several million subscribersRoger Allers, ’71 BFA — filmmaker, co-directed “The Lion King”

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Two ASU English doctoral students—Courtney Hermansky and Sam Brierly—spent part of summer 2026 in a prestigious graduate seminar at Yale University’s Lewis Walpole Library. Learn more: https://ow.ly/AsHU50ZEP9M #ASUHumanities

Congrats 🥳 to ASU English professor Katie Berta, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize for "Collective." Learn more via University of Iowa Press on Instagram: https://ow.ly/4BSC50ZA19k #ASUHumanities

University of Iowa Press on Instagram: "🏆 Announcing the winners of the Iowa Poetry Prize! Please join us in congratulating: ✨ Katie Berta, winner for collective ✨ Christine Byrne, winner for Opera Selected by judge Brenda Shaughnessy, these extraordinary collections explore everything from...

uiowapress on July 23, 2026: "🏆 Announcing the winners of the Iowa Poetry Prize! Please join us in congratulating: ✨ Katie Berta, winner for collective ✨ Christine Byrne, winner for Opera Selected by judge Brenda Shaughnessy, these extraordinary collections explore everything from connection, identity, and belonging to grief, inheritance, and survival. Of collective, Shaughnessy writes: "This book isn't made of paper, it's made of hinge, fore-edge, and ocular field." Of Opera: "What a drama, what a tragedy, what beauty and glory... an ecstatic song of survival." Give our winners a...

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It's a sunny start of fall semester at ASU! ☀️ Welcome back, Sun Devils. We're here in Ross-Blakley Hall if you need us. #ForksUp #ASUHumanities

📣 ASU Students! 📣 The Department of English seeks enthusiastic undergrads to serve as Student Ambassadors. Help inspire future Sun Devils while developing valuable leadership, communication and professional skills (+ internship credit). Learn more/apply: https://ow.ly/rUup50ZBv4O #ASUHumanities

"I feel really grateful for the ways that my degree has allowed me to be really innovative with what I'm able to do." #ASUGrad Katherine Sorensen discusses how her English degree has prepped her for roles in marketing. Watch: https://ow.ly/OHW150Zz0ui #ASUHumanities

Desert Nights, Rising Stars, Oct 16-17, 2026 @arizonastateuni.bsky.social is coming! Enjoy this video with featured faculty (& ASU MFA alum) Amber Blaeser-Wardzala. With @asuenglish.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=-scJ...

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We've just launched our newest degree: An ASU Online creative writing concentration ✍️📣🎉. It's a fiction track guided by faculty in ASU’s top-ranked creative writing program and mirrors the curriculum offered on the Tempe campus. Learn more: https://ow.ly/4WYk50ZyCNI #ASUHumanities

ASU launches online creative writing degree | ASU News

It’s time to dust off that story draft that’s been smooshed in the back of your sock drawer.Aspiring writers can now access guidance from established, internationally recognized teachers from almost anywhere in the world in a new degree program offered by Arizona State University’s Department of English. The degree will enroll its first cohort this fall.

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Aug. 14 is National Code Talkers Day. ASU Prof Emeritus Laura Tohe, AZ poet laureate, is the daughter of a Navajo Code Talker: "These men were willing to step up because many of them felt it was their responsibility to serve." More via The Associated Press: https://ow.ly/wZCy50ZzSZl #ASUHumanities

National Code Talker Day to bring 101-year-old veteran to Phoenix

Navajo Code Talkers are being honored in a longstanding national day of recognition. Thomas H. Begay is one of the last living Code Talkers and will be among those expected to gather Friday in Phoenix to honor their vital role in the outcome of World War II.

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🌿Fiction Friday: "The weeds had gotten bad, knee-high mustard plants." From "Lil Spooky" by ASU English faculty member and alum Chad Fore. Read the story in The Paris Review: https://ow.ly/p0rs50ZyZja #ASUHumanities

There's a new, immersive Titanic exhibit in Scottsdale that's got people buzzing. ASU film professor Kevin Sandler, editor of a book on the 1997 blockbuster movie about the ship, spoke with KJZZ Phoenix about our continued fascination. Listen: https://ow.ly/Ekx950ZyC6s #ASUHumanities

As Scottsdale gets a new Titanic exhibit, this ASU professor explains why we'll never let go

There was a 1958 film called “A Night to Remember” before the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster, a Tony Award winning musical and countless books. And, now you can immerse yourself in the disaster in a whole new way. “Titanic: Immersive Voyage” opened in Old Town Scottsdale last month.

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Last Friday, the inaugural class of the ASU John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering participated in a "white coat" ceremony. 🥼 ASU Regents Professor of English Alberto Ríos read his poem, "Threshold," commissioned for the occasion. More: https://ow.ly/rUkn50ZyCna #ASUHumanities

‘A monumental day’: Inaugural class of John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering receive white coats | ASU News

The family members came in first, taking their seats inside the Katzin Concert Hall on Friday as they clutched bouquets of flowers and awaited a moment they will forever hold tightly.Their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, grandsons and granddaughters, 36 in all, would so…

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Congrats 🥳 to ASU English PhD student Olivia Leonard, winner of a 2026 Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship from The Renaissance Society of America. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ylFO50ZvZor #ASUHumanities

The 26-27 cohort of ASU Fulbright awardees is one of the largest in recent years and includes 3 recent Dept. of English grads: Rose Jacket, Millicent Yurong and Alanna Rothell. 🙌 Learn more: https://ow.ly/UeRM50ZvZlt #ASUHumanities

19 ASU students receive Fulbright awards for global research, study and teaching opportunities | ASU News

Nineteen Arizona State University students and recent graduates have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2026–27 academic year, earning opportunities to conduct research, pursue graduate study and teach English in countries across Europe, Asia, South America and beyond.

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📺 Fiction Friday: ASU creative writing alum Isle McElroy's forthcoming novel "Satellite" is "provocative and profound." Read more in People Magazine : https://ow.ly/4hhb50ZvXZl #ASUHumanities

Isle McElroy’s ‘Satellite’ Is a Fresh Take on Marriage and Desire — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

A caretaker finds solace in TV, until she discovers a channel featuring a woman who looks and acts just like her, living a far more liberated life in Isle McElroy’s ‘Satellite.’ See the cover here.

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"Students might begin by discussing a concept in class and then immediately see it applied through hikes in the cloud forest." —ASU English Professor Jessica Early, discussing an Early Start program study abroad in Costa Rica. Read more in The State Press: https://ow.ly/8Zv350ZuSs0 #ASUHumanities

The Early Start Global Accelerator Program gives students a head start abroad - The Arizona State Press

The study abroad program immerses students in the culture, biodiversity and more in Costa Rica.

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ASU students: Your main character energy is needed! 📕💥 We're hiring a Student Front Desk Aide in the ASU Dept. of English main office. It's a great place to work. Apply by Aug. 10. Details: https://ow.ly/OlaE50ZwhQ1 #ASUHumanities

Congrats 🥳 to ASU linguistics PhD student Mohamed Almahdi, winner of the 2026 Robert A. Fischer Outstanding Graduate Student Award from CALICO, a research organization. Learn more: https://ow.ly/9Shs50ZvVTo #ASUHumanities

ASU linguist Peter Joseph Torres joined azcentral's Valley 101 podcast recently to explain where accents come from and why it's hard for Arizona to prove there is one. More: https://ow.ly/c81C50ZuSop #ASUHumanities

Apparently, we mumble. Is the Arizona accent real?

The Southern or Boston accent is easy to spot. But what about the Arizona accent? Valley 101 finds out more about the "Arizona mumble."

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🦪 Fiction Friday: "Who gets to choose the sound that follows the sound they make? Who gets to know if they’re the call or the echo?" From "Animal Gets Inside an Oyster Shell" by ASU English alum Winslow Schmelling. Read the story in Waxwing: https://ow.ly/zfU950Zqglu #ASUHumanities

ASU creative writing alum Max Doty's new horror novel, "The House That Eats the Dead" ☠️ (Bantam) will release in August. He says that his years as a poet, screenwriter and game-writer helped prepare him to write fiction. Read more in Grimdark Magazine: https://ow.ly/7XkO50Zr063 #ASUHumanities

The Making of a Horror Writer: How a Career Across Mediums Helped Me Write The House That Eats the Dead

My debut novel, The House That Eats the Dead comes out mid-August of 2026. On release day, I’ll be forty-four, which sounds old for a rookie novelist. 

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🌳 "The distant knuckles of the Poconos // vanished the highway in their green folds..." From "Matriarchs of the Rust Belt" by ASU English alum Claire McQuerry. Read the poem in The Shore: https://ow.ly/UZyH50ZqfI8 #ASUHumanities

Congrats 🥳 to ASU alum Sisko J. Stargazer, now a reporter for KAWC in Yuma, who has won 1st place in Digital Writing from the Public Media Journalists Association. Read more via the Arizona Local News Foundation: https://ow.ly/kGzI50ZqguF #ASUHumanities

Arizona Local News Foundation-Funded Journalist Wins First Place National Journalism Award – Arizona Media Association + Arizona Local News Foundation

YUMA, Ariz. — The Arizona Local News Foundation is proud to celebrate a major achievement by one of its funded journalists. Sisko J. Stargazer, Education Solutions Reporter at KAWC in Yuma, has earned First Place in Digital Writing from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA), one of the nation's leading organizations honoring excellence in public

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ICYMI: This spring, we hosted ASU creative writing alumni Samyak Shertok ("No Rhododendron") and Scott Daughtridge DeMer ("Then Then Then") for readings from their stellar work. ✨ Watch: https://ow.ly/GScK50ZqfS3 #ASUHumanities

Congrats 🥳to ASU film and media studies grad student Crystal Harrell, winner of a Pacific Southwest Emmy for work on the KESQ story "Making a Stink at the Salton Sea." 🌊 Learn more: https://ow.ly/ukKk50Zq5Ak #ASUHumanities

(Non)Fiction Friday: "It’s like this: if you’ve never worked in the service industry or if you’ve never been ugly, what could we possibly have to say to each other." From the essay "Testimony" by ASU English alum Susan Nguyen. Read it in The Rumpus: https://ow.ly/a2gS50ZlO3o #ASUHumanities

Testimony - The Rumpus

I’ve never seen photos of my parents dancing and partying. Skipping stones. Skipping home. Children are children everywhere. But when I gift my parents a jigsaw puzzle made from a family photo, I learn my mother has never assembled one. This makes me heave. I spend hours sorting photos and ordering them carefully in albums. What if a line had not been drawn across their country, their body’s grammar split in half? I’ve seen photos of my mother as a child several times. Never of my father. I can’t picture him as a baby or a teen. The youngest version of him that exists is in a military...

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📣 ASU students 📣 The Department of English is hiring for student positions including course graders (multiple) and one office assistant for our Writing Programs. It's a great place to work. ☀️ Details: https://ow.ly/fkRl50ZnC5J #ASUHumanities