Archive: Announcement

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Announcement

Rebecca Boylan invited to lecture at WETA on Detective Fiction & Film

We are proud to share that Professor Rebecca Boylan was invited to speak at WETA on Detective Fiction & Film Monday, May 23rd. Vice President of External Affairs, Mary…

May 16, 2016

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Cóilín Parsons' book published by Oxford UP, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

We are proud to announce that Cóilín Parsons book, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature, has been publish by Oxford University Press. More details are available. …

May 5, 2016

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Brian Hochman feat. by College for NEH Research Grant – History of Wiretapping in US

Professor Brian Hochman, awarded an NEH research grant, was recently featured on the Georgetown College website. In order to get a better picture of the history of wiretapping in…

April 29, 2016

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English Alum, Joseph Talarico featured in Wash Post for work with undocumented students

Joseph Talarico, COL ’06 and English major alum, was recently featured in the Washington Post for his work in the District’s Bell Multicultural High School with…

April 20, 2016

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Essay by English Major Luke Brown to be published in UMD's Literary Journal, The Paper Shell Review

Luke Brown, a rising senior English major, recently learned that his essay, “Writing Masculinity: Jewish Archetypes, Self-Fashioning, and the Comic Book Genre in Michael…

April 13, 2016

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Carolyn Forché gives keynote address at Yale Law School for the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium

University Professor, Carolyn Forché gave the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium Keynote Address at Yale Law School last Thursday afternoon, April 7, 2016.…

April 11, 2016

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Kelley Wickham-Crowley published in lead article of Tolkien Studies Vol. 12

Professor Kelley Wickham-Crowley’s article,”‘Mind to Mind’: Tolkien’s Faerian Drama and the Middle English Sir Orfeo,” was published as…

March 16, 2016

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Libbie Rifkin invites renowned dancer Alice Sheppard as part of the Disability Studies Initiative, feat. in The Hoya

Teaching Professor Libbie Rifkin, the spring coordinator for the Disabilities Studies Initiative, invited renowned dancer Alice Sheppard to come and perform on campus last week,…

February 29, 2016

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Mark McMorris's poem "The Drums of Marrakesh" featured in March 2016 Harper's Magazine

Professor Mark McMorris’s poem The Drums of Marrakesh, with an introduction by 2015 MacArthur Fellow Ben Lerner, will be spotlighted in the upcoming March edition of&#…

February 17, 2016

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MA Student Dan Marchalik publishes article in Slate Magazine

Dan Marchalik, who is a second-year student in the English MA program as well as a surgical resident at Georgetown University Medical School, has published an article&…

February 11, 2016