Archive: Faculty Publications
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Mecca Sullivan Awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize
We are pleased to announce that our very own Prof. Mecca Sullivan has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for her book, The…
December 7, 2022
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Lena Orlin Awarded Roland H. Bainton Prize for The Private Life of William Shakespeare
We are pleased to announce that our very own Prof. Lena Orlin has been unanimously awarded the prestigious Roland H. Bainton Prize for The Private Life of William Shakespeare.…
November 10, 2022
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Inventing Education | Newest Publication from John C. Hirsh
With sales opening on Amazon this week, the English Department is excited to announce our very own Prof. John Hirsh’s latest publication: Inventing Education: Georgetown…
September 27, 2022
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Inventing Education: Georgetown Students and DC Youth Learn from Each Other
by John C. Hirsh. Inventing Education describes in detail a program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in which undergraduate students have engaged with K-6 children…
September 20, 2022
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Debuts Highly Anticipated Novel This Summer- Big Girl
As the newest member of the Department of English, Professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is making her debut in more ways than one. Her new novel titled Big Girl is set to release on…
May 23, 2022
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All Our Families: Disability, Lineage and the Future of Kinship
by Jennifer Natalya Fink. A provocation to reclaim our disability lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability, kinship, and…
April 5, 2022
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Jennifer Natalya Fink Publishes Piece in New York Times, Launches New Book
As the Director of the Program in Disability Studies and professor of English here at Georgetown University, Jennifer Natalya Fink is revolutionizing the way we study, think, and…
March 22, 2022
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The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
by Brian Hochman. They’ve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how—and.…
March 22, 2022
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The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
by Caetlin Benson-Allott. Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last…
April 6, 2021
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In the Lateness of the World
by Carolyn Forché. Over four decades, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies,…
March 9, 2021