Archive: Announcement

• Lena Cowen Orlin Awarded Fall 2018 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Humanities

  Professor Lena Cowen Orlin was the recipient of the Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Humanities this Fall 2018. Her residency in Italy included in-depth research using civic and legal records to in

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• MA Student Katherine Burd Receives The Edith Wharton Society's Elsa Nettels Prize for Beginning Scholar

  Master of Arts in English student, Katherine Burd has won the Edith Wharton Society's Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar, for her paper titled, "Dangerous Dispossession: Amputation, Bad Atmos

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• John Hirsh Selected to Receive Engaged Career Scholarship Award

  John Hirsh has been selected to receive this year’s Engaged Career Scholarship Award from Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic for his life-long dedication to social justice education. The award specifical

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• John Glavin's Memoir, 'The Good New' Recently Published

  Professor John Glavin's captivating memoir, The Good New: A Tuscan Villa, Shakespeare, and Death was recently published. Set in Georgetown University's own Villa Le Balze, Glavin recounts a fall semes

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• Seth Perlow Wedding Poem Essay in Washington Post

  Seth Perlow's funny and thoughtful essay "There's No Such Thing as a Good Wedding Poem" was published in the Washington Post. Seth discusses the difficulty in selecting an appropriate poem to recite

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• Sarah McNamer Awarded Distinguished Achievement in Research

  The Office of the Provost at Georgetown University considers nominations from members of the Main Campus tenure-line faculty each year for a number of internal grants.  The recipient of this year’

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• Sherry Linkon The Half-Life of Deindustrialization Featured by Georgetown University

  Georgetown University recently featured Sherry Linkon's newest work, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing About Economic Restructuring. Linkon developed the idea [for the b

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• Nicole Rizzuto Wins L.S. Dembo Prize

  Nicole Rizzuto's article “Somali Soundscapes: Signal and Noise in Nuruddin Farah’s Crossbones” has been selected as the winner of the L.S. Dembo Prize for the best article published in the journal Co

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• Daniel Shore's Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive Reviewed by Los Angeles Review of Books

  A new review of Daniel Shore's Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive in the Los Angeles Review of Books explores the idea posited in the work that the "digital humaniti

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• Gretchen Henderson Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Gretchen Henderson and Karen Bassi (Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz), a grant for the Summer Institute at Georgetown

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