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Celebrating the 2026-27 ECo Impact Award Recipients
Dr. Libbie Rifkin, Teaching Professor in the Dept. of English and Associate Director of the Disability Studies Program, was a member of a team of Researchers including “Dr.…
April 22, 2026
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Peggy K. Lee Selected for Penn State First Book Institute
Peggy Kyoungwon Lee has been selected as one of eight participants in the First Book Institute at Penn State, a highly competitive program housed in the Center for American…
April 8, 2026
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Camille Deschapelles (C’26) to Present Honors Thesis Research at Meeting in the Middle Conference
The Department of English congratulates Camille Deschapelles (C’26) on the acceptance of her paper, “Believing in the Grail: Affective Medievalism from Chrétien de Troyes to…
March 11, 2026
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Event – An Evening With Gene Scheer: Adapting Mammoth American Novels for the Opera
Celebrated librettist Gene Scheer and Georgetown Professor and NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan will be in conversation about tackling literary adaptation and the contemporary…
February 25, 2026
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Prof. Rabih Alameddine Awarded National Book Award for Fiction
It gives the Department of English and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice great pleasure to announce our very own Lannan Foundation Visiting Chair at Georgetown…
November 20, 2025
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250 Years After Her Birth, Why Is Jane Austen Still So Popular?
The English Department’s very own Professor Aia Yousef was recently featured on Georgetown’s main news page discussing what makes Jane Austen still resonate to this…
October 6, 2025
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Prof. Rabih Alameddine Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
The department is excited to announce that Lannan Visiting Lecturer Rabih Alameddine has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction, for his new novel The True…
September 22, 2025
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Celebrate a Century of The Great Gatsby With a Professor Who’s Read It 100 Times
Our very own Maureen Corrigan was recently featured in a news story on the College of Arts & Sciences’ page; check out the following excerpt: In April, Georgetown professor…
June 2, 2025
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Professor Hensley publishes new book on the prehistory of the climate crisis
Professor Nathan Hensley has published a new book, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse. The book is a “study of how writers from the early…
May 19, 2025
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Celebrating Jamira Richardson (GSAS ’25) – One of Three Students Awarded the 2025 Suzanne Tarlov Spirit Award
The Center for Social Justice proudly recognizes three #HoyasForOthers with the 2025 Suzanne Tarlov Spirit Award – Jamira Richardson (G’25), Alondra Herrera-Esquivel …
May 16, 2025