Archive: Announcement

• 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 Harper's Magazine. Congratulations

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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 in Slate Magazine called, "Teachi

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• Norma Tilden and Dana Luciano have articles published in American Studies Journal "Transatlantica"

  Professors Norma Tilden and Dana Luciano each had articles published in the most recent issue of the online American Studies Journal, Transatlantica. Professor Tilden's article is titled, "Long-Term C

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• Samantha Pinto awarded the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize

  We are delighted and honored to announce that Professor Samantha Pinto will receive the esteemed William Sanders Scarborough Prize in the category of "outstanding scholarly study of black American li

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• "Where do cultures go when they die?" Brian Hochman explores this question on the University of Minnesota Press blog in advance of book release

  Professor Hochman tells the story of "the Codfish, the Indian, and the phonograph" on the University of Minnesota Press blog. His book, Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Medi

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• English PhD Initiative Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

  This week, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the English Department's efforts to propose a new PhD program.  The article is behind a paywall, but you can access it for free while using the

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