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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…
October 31, 2017
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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…
October 31, 2017
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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…
October 25, 2017
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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 …
October 23, 2017
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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.…
October 20, 2017
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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.…
October 20, 2017
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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…
October 4, 2017
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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…
September 27, 2017
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Lena Orlin to Participate in Bamberg Conference
The University of Bamberg‘s Department of British Culture will be hosting a conference in Bamberg, Germany later this month entitled Early Modern Debts: Obligation and…
September 18, 2017
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Windham Campbell 2017 Festival Honors Carolyn Forché
This past weekend, the eight prize recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prize were honored at a three-day literary festival that took place at Yale University. The festival began…
September 18, 2017