Archive: Announcement

• Aminatta Forna On PBS News Hour

  PBS News Hour recently featured Aminatta Forna in a segment entitled 'The power of your suffering is in how you tell your story.' The description of the segment reads: "Writer Aminatta Forna is often

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• Cheryl Suzack's Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law Announced as 2018 Canada Prizes Finalist

  Cheryl Suzack's Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law is a finalist for the 2018 Canada Prizes in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Federation for the Humanities and Social

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• Aminatta Forna's Happiness Reviewed by Washington Post

  Congratulations to Aminatta Forna on a rave review of her newest book, "Happiness" in the Washington Post! “Happiness” is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and

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• The Evolution of Georgetown's Literary Curriculum

  English professors Henry Schwarz, David Gewanter, Carolyn Forché, and Aminatta Forna are featured in a recent Hoya article about the evolution of the literary curriculum at Georgetown University.

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• David Gewanter's Fort Necessity Released by University of Chicago Press

  David Gewanter's latest collection of poetry, Fort Necessity, is now available for order via the University of Chicago Press. The compilation uses historical documents, such as a convict ledger and co

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• Caetlin Benson-Allott's Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens Gets Alamo Drafthouse Treatment

  Caetlin Benson-Allott's book Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing is a celebration and conversation about our (and horror's) relationship to video, in its v

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• Sarah McNamer's Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text Wins MLA's Scaglione Publication Award

  The Modern Language Association of America has announced that is awarding the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies to Sarah McNamer, for Meditation

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• Barbara Feinman Todd: The Value of Teaching Journalism

  The Hoya published Barbara Feinman Todd's piece The Value of Teaching Journalism on Monday in advance of her retirement. After twenty-five years of teaching at Georgetown University, Barbara not only

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• John Glavin Featured in The Washington Post

  The Washington Post released a piece on December 3rd which explores Glavin's rigorous but rewarding classes. Due to the success of former students, such as Jonathan Nolan and Mike Birbiglia, Glavin h

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• Rave Washington Post Review for 'The Blue Hour' Performance, Inspired by Carolyn Forché Poem

  This week The Washington Post published a rave review for the transcription of Carolyn Forché's poem "On Earth" into a 70-minute mesmerizing musical monologue. It featured members from the Boston-bas

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