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English MA Alum, Rin Baker (’25), Wins Constance Coiner Dissertation Award – Working-Class Studies Assoc.
It is with great pleasure that the Department of English celebrates Rin Baker – winner of The Working-Class Studies Association’s 2026 Constance Coiner Dissertation…
June 23, 2026
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7,000 Miles From Home, Korean Fulbright Recipient Built Community at Georgetown
Excerpt reposted from the Graduate Studies main page:By Katie Rice | May 7, 2026 Ever since she began reading English-language novels in middle school in Seoul, South Korea,…
May 7, 2026
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Professor McNamer awarded Guggenheim and Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships
Professor Sarah McNamer has won a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship, which is awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to “trailblazing” scholars and artists.…
April 29, 2026
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Maureen Corrigan To Receive Honorary Degree
Professor Maureen Corrigan will receive an honorary degree from her undergraduate alma mater, Fordham University, at this year’s commencement ceremony on May 16, 2026.…
April 29, 2026
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Celebrating the 2026-27 ECo Impact Award Recipients
Dr. Libbie Rifkin, Teaching Professor in the Dept. of English and Associate Director of the Disability Studies Program, was a member of a team of Researchers including “Dr.…
April 22, 2026
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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 Dan…
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