Archive: Announcement
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Peggy K. Lee Selected for Penn State First Book Institute
Peggy Kyoungwon Lee has been selected as one of eight participants in the First Book Institute at Penn State, a highly competitive program housed in the Center for American…
April 8, 2026
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Prof. Duncan Wu Publishes Multiple Poems
Professor Duncan Wu is best known as a literary scholar, but the Department is thrilled to announce publication of some of his poems as well as a chapbook: “Shibboleth&;…
April 8, 2026
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Camille Deschapelles (C’26) to Present Honors Thesis Research at Meeting in the Middle Conference
The Department of English congratulates Camille Deschapelles (C’26) on the acceptance of her paper, “Believing in the Grail: Affective Medievalism from Chrétien de Troyes to…
March 11, 2026
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Event – An Evening With Gene Scheer: Adapting Mammoth American Novels for the Opera
Celebrated librettist Gene Scheer and Georgetown Professor and NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan will be in conversation about tackling literary adaptation and the contemporary…
February 25, 2026
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What does the phrase “Fluidity: Water’s Perpetual Shapelessness” evoke for you?
Georgetown Graduate Studies wrote about our MA in English students’ experiences at their annual English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) conference, and the department…
December 3, 2025
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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