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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

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The Mikvah Queen

Jennifer Natalya Fink’s latest novel The Mikvah Queen is officially on the shelf! The Mikvah Queen is the winner of the Dana Award and has been nominated for the Pulitzer…

June 3, 2014

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Jason Rosenblatt: Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose, a Norton Critical Edition

Milton’s Selected Poetry and Prose, a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Jason Rosenblatt was just released by W.W. Norton & Company. We extend our warmest…

June 3, 2014

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Sarah McNamer – CCL Book Award Winner

Sarah McNamer has been voted unanimously as a winner of the CCL Book Award. This award is for Affective Mediation published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. She will be…

June 3, 2014

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The Pearl Project Report – Released!

On January 20, 2011 the Pearl Project Report was released and it has hit the national and international press big-time. The project represents exactly what Georgetown is about…

June 3, 2014