Archive: Department of English

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7,000 Miles From Home, Korean Fulbright Recipient Built Community at Georgetown

Excerpt reposted from the Graduate Studies main page:By Katie Rice | May 7, 2026 Ever since she began reading English-language novels in middle school in Seoul, South Korea,…

May 7, 2026

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Professor McNamer awarded Guggenheim and Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships

Professor Sarah McNamer has won a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship, which is awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to “trailblazing” scholars and artists.…

April 29, 2026

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Maureen Corrigan To Receive Honorary Degree

Professor Maureen Corrigan will receive an honorary degree from her undergraduate alma mater, Fordham University, at this year’s commencement ceremony on May 16, 2026.…

April 29, 2026

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Peggy K. Lee Selected for Penn State First Book Institute

Peggy Kyoungwon Lee has been selected as one of eight participants in the First Book Institute at Penn State, a highly competitive program housed in the Center for American…

April 8, 2026

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Prof. Duncan Wu Publishes Multiple Poems

Professor Duncan Wu is best known as a literary scholar, but the Department is thrilled to announce publication of some of his poems as well as a chapbook: “Shibboleth&;…

April 8, 2026

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Prof. Rabih Alameddine Awarded National Book Award for Fiction

It gives the Department of English and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice great pleasure to announce our very own Lannan Foundation Visiting Chair at Georgetown…

November 20, 2025

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What’s Work? Humanistic Approaches to Understanding Work

You might have seen the posters around New North announcing a symposium on humanities approaches to work, coming up October 30 and 31st. The Fritz-Hüser-Institut für…

September 24, 2025

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Celebrate a Century of The Great Gatsby With a Professor Who’s Read It 100 Times

Our very own Maureen Corrigan was recently featured in a news story on the College of Arts & Sciences’ page; check out the following excerpt: In April, Georgetown professor…

June 2, 2025

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Professor Hensley publishes new book on the prehistory of the climate crisis

Professor Nathan Hensley has published a new book, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse. The book is a “study of how writers from the early…

May 19, 2025

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Celebrating Jamira Richardson (GSAS ’25) – One of Three Students Awarded the 2025 Suzanne Tarlov Spirit Award

The Center for Social Justice proudly recognizes three #HoyasForOthers with the 2025 Suzanne Tarlov Spirit Award – Jamira Richardson (G’25), Alondra Herrera-Esquivel …

May 16, 2025