Archive: Announcement
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Prof. Rabih Alameddine Awarded National Book Award for Fiction
It gives the Department of English and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice great pleasure to announce our very own Lannan Foundation Visiting Chair at Georgetown…
November 20, 2025
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Prof. Duncan Wu Published in Beyond Queer Words
The Dept. of English is proud to announce that Prof. Duncan Wu’s poem, “Love at 30,000 feet,” has just been published in Beyond Queer Words (9th).…
October 21, 2025
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250 Years After Her Birth, Why Is Jane Austen Still So Popular?
The English Department’s very own Professor Aia Yousef was recently featured on Georgetown’s main news page discussing what makes Jane Austen still resonate to this…
October 6, 2025
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What’s Work? Humanistic Approaches to Understanding Work
You might have seen the posters around New North announcing a symposium on humanities approaches to work, coming up October 30 and 31st. The Fritz-Hüser-Institut für…
September 24, 2025
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Prof. Rabih Alameddine Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
The department is excited to announce that Lannan Visiting Lecturer Rabih Alameddine has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction, for his new novel The True…
September 22, 2025
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Celebrate a Century of The Great Gatsby With a Professor Who’s Read It 100 Times
Our very own Maureen Corrigan was recently featured in a news story on the College of Arts & Sciences’ page; check out the following excerpt: In April, Georgetown professor…
June 2, 2025
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Professor Hensley publishes new book on the prehistory of the climate crisis
Professor Nathan Hensley has published a new book, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse. The book is a “study of how writers from the early…
May 19, 2025
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Celebrating Jamira Richardson (GSAS ’25) – One of Three Students Awarded the 2025 Suzanne Tarlov Spirit Award
The Center for Social Justice proudly recognizes three #HoyasForOthers with the 2025 Suzanne Tarlov Spirit Award – Jamira Richardson (G’25), Alondra Herrera-Esquivel …
May 16, 2025
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Congratulations! English MA Students Recognized with Graduate Student Awards
The English Department is proud to celebrate two of our graduating MA Students’ achievements: both June Yoon and Isaiah Washington were awarded the Exceptional Master’…
May 12, 2025
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Celebrating the 2025 Writing Awards Finalists
Professor Phil Sandick, Director of the Creative Writing Minor, and the Department of English hosted the finalists selected for the 2025 Writing Awards on April 30. Our judges…
May 5, 2025