Archive: Announcement

• Angelyn Mitchell Honored with 2020 Distinguished Leader Award

  This past weekend, Professor Angelyn Mitchell was honored at the Patrick Healy Dinner hosted by the Georgetown University Alumni Association with the 2020 Distinguished Leader Award. According to

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• Duncan Wu Awarded Distinguished Scholar Award by Keats-Shelley Association of America

  Congratulations to Duncan Wu who was recently honored at the Modern Languages Association convention in Seattle with the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America. He

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• Anh Nguyen (G’19) Wins ACLA Presidential Master’s Prize for MA English Thesis

  Congratulations to MA English alumni Anh Nguyen (G'19) who recently won the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA) Presidential Master's Prize for their thesis: The Novel of Unlearning:

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• Nathan Hensley Honored with Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award

  Professor Nathan Hensley is one of three faculty members receiving the prestigious Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award this spring 2020. The award recognizes "those faculty members who have demonstra

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• Angelyn Mitchell Remembers the Life of Toni Morrison in Politico Article

  In late December 2019, Angelyn Mitchell wrote an article about Toni Morrison for Politico. It's titled "The Writer Who Recalibrated the American Story" and serves as a reflection of the celebrated au

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• Kathryn Temple Inaugural Director of Master's in Engaged & Public Humanities (MAEPH) & Launch of Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University in 2020

  Professor Kathryn Temple will be the inaugural Director of a new Master's program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—a Master's in Engaged and Public Humanities (MAEPH). She will be welcomin

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• Carolyn Forché's Memoir "What You Have Heard Is True" Long-Listed for 2019 National Book Award

  University Professor Carolyn Forché's memoir, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance—the true story of her journey as a young poet who at 27 years old was mysterious thrust in

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• Seth Perlow Explains Complex History of Emily Dickinson Manuscripts in LA Review of Books Article

  Seth Perlow explains the complex history of the Emily Dickinson manuscripts and the impact that history has on the creation of Dickinson projects even now in a recently published Los Angeles Review of

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• Poem by Daniel Breen (G'19), Still life on fragment (60–85 A.D.), published by Academy of American Poets

  One of our recent M.A. English alums, Daniel Breen (G'19) won the Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize in spring 2019. As part of his award, his poem, Still life on fragment (60–85 A.D.), was published on th

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• Cóilín Parsons Edits New Collection, 'Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism'

  Cóilín Parsons—along with colleagues Kathryn Conrad (University of Kansas) and Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University—has edited a new collection titled Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

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