Archive: Announcement
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Congratulations, Class of 2020!
Please join us in celebrating the graduation of our class of 2020! Kathryn Baker, major Transferring from the MSB to the College to study English was the best decision I…
June 10, 2020
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Maureen Corrigan’s Picks for Pandemic Reading
During COVID-19, we’ve all had time to hunker down and check off some much needed items on our to-do list (or at least, that was our intention from the start!). If you&;…
May 22, 2020
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Duncan Wu and Carolyn Forché Share Thoughts on Power of Poetry During COVID-19
There is power in the written word: particularly that of poetry to serve as a balm to the soul and reignite the flame of hope within shared human experiences. Take a few moments…
May 5, 2020
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Cóilín Parsons Reflects on Coronavirus While Teaching Camus’s ‘The Plague’
As we grapple with the uncertainties surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, our own Professor Cóilín Parsons reflects on it through the lens of reading Albert Camus’s The…
May 1, 2020
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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…
October 4, 2019
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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…
September 20, 2019
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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 …
September 12, 2019
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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…
September 3, 2019
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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,…
August 30, 2019
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Sherry Linkon Selected for 2019 C.L.R. James Award for book 'The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring'
The Working Class Studies Association has awarded Sherry Linkon’s book, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring, the C…
August 28, 2019