Archive: Announcement

• Aminatta Forna's Happiness Included In New York Times List

  The New York Times' 10 New Books We Recommend This Week by John Williams, Daily Books Editor and Staff Writer, includes Aminatta Forna's Happiness.  On London’s Waterloo Bridge, a Ghanaian psychiatris

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• David Gewanter on PBS NewsHour

  David Gewanter appeared on PBS NewsHour to discuss the relevance of poetry in our modern world.  Is poetry dead, too slow for our wired, sound-bitten world? Even if poetry is no more, says David G

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• Brian Hochman Interviewed for Smithsonian Magazine

  Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Brian Hochman for a piece called 'A Brief History of Surveillance in America.' He discusses the history of eavesdropping and data surveillance in the United States as

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• Jennifer Natalya Fink's Bhopal Dance Reviewed

  Jennifer Natalya Fink's Bhopal Dance is gaining attention from reviewers and fellow writers.  The Seattle Review of Books has released a glowing review: "In this beautiful, twisty, entertaining

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• 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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