Archive: Award

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Congratulations to the 2024 Creative Writing Awards Finalists!

Students, faculty, and staff gathered on April 30, 2024 in Copley Formal Lounge to celebrate our Creative Writing Awards finalists. We’d like to share their names here as…

May 6, 2024

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Prof. Hochman Awarded 2023 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize

The English department is excited to announce that Professor Brian Hochman’s book THE LISTENERS: A HISTORY OF WIRETAPPING IN THE UNITED STATES (Harvard University Press,…

February 15, 2024

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Professors Abusharaf, Chakravarti, and Parsons Named 2nd Sonneborn Interdisciplinary Collaboration Chair

University Provost Robert Groves recently announced the Provost Office Faculty awards, and one of the English Department’s own, Prof. Cóilín Parsons, was named alongside…

October 24, 2023

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Professor Carolyn Forché inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Department of English is excited to announce that Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.…

October 6, 2023

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Maureen Corrigan, The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Prof. of the Practice in Literary Criticism, wins the 2023 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Reviewing

Maureen Corrigan has won the Washington Monthly’s 2023 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing . In conferring the award, judges praised her for “…

June 7, 2023

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Prof. Benson-Allott Awarded Mercator Fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt

The department is excited to announce that Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott will be a Mercator Fellow for the month of June 2023 at the Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film&…

May 30, 2023

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Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink receives President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers

The department is thrilled to announce that Professor Fink has received the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers . These awards recognize faculty members…

March 8, 2023

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Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s novel, BIG GIRL, named Gotham Book Prize finalist

The department is excited to announce that Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s novel, BIG GIRL has been named a finalist for the 2023 Gotham Book Prize . The Gotham Book Prize…

February 24, 2023

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Professor Benson-Allott and the editors of JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies win Distinguished Service Award

The department is excited to announce that Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott and the other editors of JCMS (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) won a Distinguished Service Award from…

February 21, 2023

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Professor Krishnan Awarded $3 Million Mellon Foundation Grant with Dean Dana Williams (Howard) to establish Georgetown Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice in DC

The department is excited to announce that our affiliate joint faculty Professor Lakshmi Krishnan has been awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million Mellon Foundation Grant with Dean Dana…

February 8, 2023