The annual Department of English and Philosophy holiday party was held on Thursday, December 6th. For pictures from this event, please click here.

Andrea Barrett, MacArthur Prize winner and author of the required Freshman reading book, Servants of the Map, visited Drexel University on Wednesday, November 14th and Thursday, November 15th, 2007. She gave a presentation in the Main Auditorium, signed books and spoke to students at the reception afterwards, attended a dinner at the Academic Bistro, taught a masters class to select students, and gave a smaller presentation in the Faculty Club. Pictures from all of these events can be found here.

On Tuesday, September 18th, the Department of English and Philosophy held the annual departmental retreat. For pictures from this event, please click here.

On Monday, June 12th, the Senior Project Presentations were held in the conference room, followed by the year-end Department Party. For pictures from these events, please click here.

On Friday, May 11th, the English and Philosophy Department held its Sigma Tau Delta Awards and 26th Annual Freshman Writing Contest. For pictures from this event, please click here.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who was the third of the writers brought to Drexel in 2006-2007 by our Department's Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing, was given the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction with her second novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun'. The prize includes 30,000 pounds and a statue called "The Bessie."

The Orange Prize is given to the best novel written by a woman in the previous twelve months. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the youngest woman to win the prize and the first to come from Africa. She also was recently featured in Vanity Fair.

Chimamanda visited on Friday, May 4th, 2007. To see pictures, please click here.