Archive: News Story

• Miranda Rose Hall Receives the 2009 McTigh Prize

  Congratulations to Miranda Rose Hall (COL 2011) who has been awarded the 2009 McTigh Prize. Ms. Hall is a double major in Theater and Performance Studies and English in the College of Arts and Science

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• Ashley Chow, COL '09, will be published in the next issue of Poetry International and Crab Creek Review

  Ashley Chow's poem, "For My Mother," will be published in the next issue of Poetry International. Two of her other poems, "Confession" and "Ode" have been accepted for the upcoming issue of Crab Creek

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• Kate Middleton, MA English '09 – short-listed for the Age Book of the Year Awards in Australia

  Fire Season Kate Middleton Giramondo KATE Middleton's first book shows much variety – from the confident terza rima of the Minotaur poems, to the fragmentary discursions inspired by artists and m

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• Harsimrat (Simmer) Grewal, MA '09, New Executive Assistant to the Deans, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University

  Harsimrat (Simmer) Grewal, MA '09, joins the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University as the Executive Assistant to the Deans. Simmer hopes to gain experience to pursue a career i

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• Alex Bledsoe, the Fire This Time's managing editor. . .

  Alex Bledsoe, the Fire This Time's managing editor, has a piece in this morning's Washington Post. She's right there on the op-ed page with Ruth Marcus, Eugene Robinson and the other usual columnists.

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• Our Dinaw Mengestu honored again

  Dinaw Mengestu, English Major, graduate of the College, Writer-in-Residence in the English Department, winner of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and residency at Marfa, and nominated for theGuardian's

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• Noteworthy: Michael Collins

  An article on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris was published this summer in Literature and Belief (Volumes 29 and 30.1), by Professor Michael Collins. Professor Collins served this summer as a Visiting Sc

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• Gift Given in Memory of Dorothy Betz

  Professor Emeritus, Paul Betz has contributed $1000 to the Department of English to support this year's performance on campus of As You Like It by the American Shakespeare Center. The gift was given i

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• Noteworthy: David Gewanter

  David Gewanter will read poems from his book War Bird at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, on Sept. 26th; Georgetown on Nov 9; the Library of Congress Noon Series on Nov. 16; and Catholic University

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• Nathaniel Rivers: In Defense of Gut Feelings: Rhetorics of Decision-Making

  Nathaniel's recently published article in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society can be accessed through the link below: www.presenttensejournal.org/vol1/in-defense-of-gut-feelings-rhetorics

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