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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…

June 3, 2014

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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 “&…

June 3, 2014

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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…

June 3, 2014

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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…

June 3, 2014

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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…

June 3, 2014

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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…

June 3, 2014

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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…

June 3, 2014

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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…

June 3, 2014

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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;…

June 3, 2014

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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-…

June 3, 2014