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Department Celebrates Forthcoming Publication of Prof. Nathan Hensley’s Co-edited Book, The Barbara Johnson Collective
Professor Nathan Hensley’s coedited book, The Barbara Johnson Collective, will be officially released this November. Published by Northwestern University Press and featuring a…
October 9, 2026
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Prof. Alex Brostoff Named Gender+ Justice Fellow
The English Department is proud to celebrate Prof. Alex Brotsoff’s naming as a Gender+ Justice Fellow! You can learn more about their scholarship and their project with the…
October 5, 2026
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New Book in Translation by the Late Brazilian Activist and Quilombo Leader Nêgo Bispo, Co-translated by Prof. Brostoff
The department is pleased to announce the publication of the late Brazilian activist and quilombo leader Antônio Bispo dos Santos’ The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants (Polity…
September 2, 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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Celebrating the 2026-27 ECo Impact Award Recipients
Dr. Libbie Rifkin, Teaching Professor in the Dept. of English and Associate Director of the Disability Studies Program, was a member of a team of Researchers including “Dr.…
April 22, 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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Prof. Rabih Alameddine Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
The department is excited to announce that Lannan Visiting Lecturer Rabih Alameddine has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction, for his new novel The True…
September 22, 2025