Archive: Announcement

• Henry Schwarz Co-Directs and Presents Film: Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!

  Henry Schwarz, English Professor and member of the India Initiative Faculty Committee, in conjunction with the Georgetown India Initiative, will host a screening of Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, for wh

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• Henry Schwarz and Cóilín Parsons awarded Seed Grant by Georgetown India Initiative

  English Professors Henry Schwarz and Cóilín Parsons were awarded one of three faculty seminar and collaborative Research Seed Grants by the Georgetown India Initiative to be implemented for the 2016-

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• Kathryn Temple lectures at Flinders University (Australia) on Lisbon Earthquake in 1755

  Professor Kathryn Temple was invited to Flinders University in Adelaide, S. Australia as a guest lecturer. Her abstract for the lecture today, Wednesday, September 21st (read more below) is on the Li

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• Libbie Rifkin & Disability Course Cluster feat. on Georgetown Home Page

  The Disabilities Course Cluster is currently featured on the home page of the Georgetown University website, thanks to Professor Libbie Rifkin's efforts along with various faculty colleagues over the

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• David Gewanter to present 'flash fiction' piece at Hillyer Gallery

  Professor David Gewanter will be presenting a flash fiction response to a work of visual art by Dove Bradshaw on Friday, September 9th. He will be joined by a myraid group of writers at Hillyer Galler

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• Dan Shore featured for Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Project

  Professor Daniel Shore, in collaboration with alumnus, Christopher Warren (G'03) and Jessica Otis at Carneige Mellon University, received a significant summer grant from the National Endowment for the

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• Nicole Rizzuto's "Insurgent Testimonies" shortlisted for 2016 MSA Book Prize

  Professor Nicole Rizzuto's book Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature was recently shortlisted for the 2016 Modernist Studies Association book prize. Mo

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• Caetlin Benson-Allott reflects on death of VCR in recent Slate Magazine interview

  Professor Caetlin Benson-Allott was recently interviewed by fellow graduate school colleague, Jacob Brogan at Slate magazine for an article titled, "RIP to the VCR."  In it, she and Brogan reflect on

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• Lena Orlin presents paper at IAUPE, "What We Know about Shakespeare 400 Years after his Death"

  Professor Lena Orlin, Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America, will be presenting a paper next week at the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) c

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• Ricardo Ortíz on Diane Rehm Show reviewed Junot Diaz "Drown"

  Just this week, Professor Ricardo Ortíz, Chair and Associate Professor of US Latino literature and culture, was a featured panelist on the Diane Rehm Show.  He, along with journalist and book critic,

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