Archive: Announcement

• 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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• Patrick O'Malley Wins Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature

  Patrick O’Malley has been awarded the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies for his Liffey and Lethe: Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Angl

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• New York Times Interviews Maureen Corrigan

  The New York Times recently released a piece, Finding the Backdrop of ‘Gatsby’ in Connecticut, Not Long Island, which is part of a series on the people and places of New York. The column focuses on t

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• Sherry Linkon Interviewed by Washington Post Reporter Amy Goldstein

  Professor Sherry Linkon was intervewed by Washington Post reporter, Amy Goldstein last week and discussed her new book on working-class literature titled The Half-Life of Deindustrialization. The two

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• David Gewanter Interviewed on Library of Congress Podcast

  David Gewanter was interviewed for The Poet and the Poem, an audio podcast created by The Library of Congress. He discusses his latest work, Fort Necessity, and shares some excerpts.  Click HERE t

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