Archive: News Story
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Jennifer Nguyen Wins First Place in the Arts Club of Washington Short Story Competition
The English Department would like to congratulate Jennifer Nguyen, a senior English major, who has just been awarded first place in the Arts Club of Washington short story…
June 3, 2014
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Professor John Pfordresher Receives the College's Bunn Award for Distinguished Teaching
Congratulations to Professor John Pfordresher, who has been selected as the winner of the College’s Bunn Award for distinguished teaching. Professor Pfordresher will…
June 3, 2014
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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