Archive: Announcement

• 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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• 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 Cancellation in European Cultur

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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 with University Presid

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• Lena Orlin Joins The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Board Of Trustees

  Formed in 1847, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1961, the Shakespeare Birthplace Act reaffirmed the organization's registered charity s

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• John Hirsh Publishes Article on Middle English Devotional in International Journal 'Traditio'

  Published by Fordham University in their international journal Traditio, The Twenty-five Joys of Our Lady, An English Marian Rosary of the Fifteenth Century from Bodleian Library MS Don. d. 85 explor

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• Brian Hochman Awarded 2017 NEH Grant

  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced its final grant for the fiscal year, which totals $39.3 million and supports 245 humanities projects across the United States. Twenty-eig

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• English M.A. Student Queenie Sukhadia Publishes A City of Sungazers

  Queenie Sukhadia, an English M.A. student, recently had her collection of short stories, A City of Sungazers, published by Bombaykala Press. A City of Sungazers explores Mumbai, India, through the

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