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Professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s novel, BIG GIRL, named BBC Radio Book Club Pick
The department is excited to announce that Professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's novel, BIG GIRL, has been named a BBC Radio 2 Summer Book Club selection. Released this month in the UK and Commonwealth
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Novel Dialogue Podcast Episode: Nicole Rizzuto with Aminatta Forna
For the podcast Novel Dialogue, Nicole Rizzuto spoke with Aminatta Forna about her approach to writing fiction and non-fiction. They discuss Aminatta's "forensic level of honesty" in her writing and
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Georgetown Hosts “Centering the Humanities,” the 2023 Summer Seminar of the Associations of Departments of English and of Language Departments
Georgetown's English Department helped to host a major national conference on "Centering the Humanities," 1-3 June of 2023. Partnering with the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Association of D
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Maureen Corrigan, The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Prof. of the Practice in Literary Criticism, wins the 2023 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Reviewing
Maureen Corrigan has won the Washington Monthly's 2023 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing. In conferring the award, judges praised her for "perfecting the genre" of short-form r
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Prof. Benson-Allott Awarded Mercator Fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt
The department is excited to announce that Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott will be a Mercator Fellow for the month of June 2023 at the Graduiertenkolleg "Configurations of Film" at Goethe University Frankf
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Current Graduate Students
Rin BakerA first-generation student, Rin graduated Summa Cum Laude with their A.A. in Liberal Arts & Humanities, and Summa Cum Laude with their B.A. in English and Education. Their research and writ
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Professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan awarded Next Generation Indie Book Award
The department is excited to announce that Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's novel BIG GIRL (W.W. Norton & Co. 2022) has been awarded a 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel. The Next Ge
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Association of Departments of English-Association of Language Departments Joint Summer Seminar Hosted by Georgetown, 1-4 June 2023
Georgetown is happy to host the 2023 Joint Seminar of the Association of Departments of English and the Association of Language Departments in Washington, DC, from 1 to 4 June. Prof. Ricardo Ortiz se
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Professor Carolyn Forché is elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Department of English is excited to announce that Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. According to the Academ
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ENGL 6130: Reading Race in American Culture
Section Description: Students will examine Anglo-American and African American cultural texts from antebellum America to the historic election of President Obama in order to understand better the
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