Archive: Announcement

• Matthew Noble-Olson's Essay, "Reviving the Elephant; or, Cinema Plays Dead", published in Cultural Critique Journal

  Matthew Noble-Olson's essay, "Reviving the Elephant; or, Cinema Plays Dead”, was recently featured in University of Minnesota Press' journal Cultural Critique, which "provides a forum for creative and

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• Aminatta Forna Essay In Latest World Literature Today Issue

  The November 2017 Issue of World Literature Today included Aminatta Forna's essay, Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative. Congratulations, Aminatta! 

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• Carolyn Forche Poem "On Earth" Performed by Luciana Souza

  This Saturday, November 4th at 8:00pm Washington Performing Arts Center will perform Carolyn Forché's poem "On Earth." "Brazilian superstar Souza joins forces with the 17 virtuoso strings of A Far

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• Jennifer Natalya Fink Interviewed by Lilith Magazine

  Lilith Magazine recently interviewed Jennifer Natalya Fink about her novel Bhopal Dance. The book concerns the 1984 explosion of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India and its effect on three North Ameri

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• Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Elleke Boehmer

  The University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University recently hosted Aminatta Forna, OBE in conversation with Elleke Boehmer. This event was the first of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series 2017-18 ‘P

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• Aminatta Forna, OBE: Plenary Speaker at Macalster International Roundtable

  Macalster College, located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, hosted their 24th Annual International Roundtable discussion just over a week ago. This year's sessions were entitled Empathy and Its Discontents.

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• College Establishes Minor in Disability Studies

  Multiple members of the English Department, Jennifer Natalya Fink, Sarah Schotland, and Libbie Rifkin, were instrumental in launching the new Minor in Disability Studies. This new interdisciplinary M

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• Samantha Pinto Uses NEH Grant to Research Black Women Celebrities

  Georgetown University recently featured Samantha Pinto's NEH research and upcoming book, Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Cultures of Rights. Pinto explains: "My book insists

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• Cóilín Parsons Awarded 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award

  Cóilín Parsons' The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature was awarded the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award. Established in 1979, the award was created by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Un

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• Kathryn Temple Featured in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Vol. 58.3

  Kathryn Temple's article "Heart of Agitation: Mary Wollstonecraft, Emotion, and Legal Subjectivity" was prominently featured in the latest edition of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation,

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