Archive: Department of English
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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
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Congratulations! English MA Students Recognized with Graduate Student Awards
The English Department is proud to celebrate two of our graduating MA Students’ achievements: both June Yoon and Isaiah Washington were awarded the Exceptional Master’…
May 12, 2025
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Celebrating the 2025 Writing Awards Finalists
Professor Phil Sandick, Director of the Creative Writing Minor, and the Department of English hosted the finalists selected for the 2025 Writing Awards on April 30. Our judges…
May 5, 2025
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Students Bridge Campuses, Cultures, and Communities with Hands-On Learning in India
Ten Georgetown University students from campuses in the United States and Qatar recently came together in India for an immersive research experience as part of the…
May 5, 2025