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Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse

by Nathan Hensley. A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of.…

June 4, 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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Seeing Anew: Making Working-Class Literature Visible Through a Working-Class Intersectional Gaze

Professor Emeritus Pamela Fox and Professor Sherry Linkon collaborated on a new article exploring the idea of a working-class intersectional gaze through analysis of Ocean Vuong&…

February 11, 2025

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Professor Chander publishes the Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

The department is excited to announce the publication of the Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race, edited by Manu Chander. The Companion collects thirteen essays that show…

January 30, 2025

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Recentering Learning: Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptability in Higher Education

Edited by Maggie Debelius. The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how colleges and universities manage teaching and learning. Recentering Learning unpacks the wide-reaching…

December 3, 2024

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Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

Edited by Cóilín Parsons. Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the…

November 14, 2024

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Prof. O’Malley’s The Irish and the Imagination of Race Wins Honorable Mention for the North American Victorian Studies Association’s Best Book Prize

Professor Patrick O’Malley’s most recent publication, The Irish and the Imagination of Race, was named as the North American Victorian Studies Association’s Honorable…

October 17, 2024

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Prof. Patrick O’Malley Named Honorable Mention for Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish-America

Professor O’Malley’s most recent publication, The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century from the University…

July 10, 2024

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Blue Hour

by Carolyn Forché. "Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest, '…

June 11, 2024