Archive: News
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Graduating MA Students Receive Graduate Student Awards Ahead of Commencement
The English Department at Georgetown University is proud to announce that two of our graduating MA students in English were recognized with Graduate Student Awards on April 29, 2024: Halle Trang
Category: Announcement
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Congratulations to the 2024 Creative Writing Awards Finalists!
Students, faculty, and staff gathered on April 30, 2024 in Copley Formal Lounge to celebrate our Creative Writing Awards finalists. We'd like to share their names here as well as feature the digi
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Faculty Work in Progress: Prof. Peggy K. Lee
You're invited to Assistant Prof. Peggy K. Lee's work in progress event hosted by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative on April 8, 2024 from 4-5:30pm at ICC 462. The talk is titled, "Holding Myse
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Prof. Hochman Awarded 2023 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize
The English department is excited to announce that Professor Brian Hochman's book THE LISTENERS: A HISTORY OF WIRETAPPING IN THE UNITED STATES (Harvard University Press, 2022) was awarded the int
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Professors Abusharaf, Chakravarti, and Parsons Named 2nd Sonneborn Interdisciplinary Collaboration Chair
University Provost Robert Groves recently announced the Provost Office Faculty awards, and one of the English Department's own, Prof. Cóilín Parsons, was named alongside his collaborators: Rogaia
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Interdisciplinary Research Team Begins Yearlong Inquiry into Restorative Black Ecologies and Spaces
An interdisciplinary team of Georgetown researchers is beginning a yearlong inquiry into the past, present and future of Black ecologies. Led by Amani Morrison, an assistant professor in the Departme
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Professor Carolyn Forché inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Department of English is excited to announce that Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. According to the Academy'
Category: Announcement
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Prof. Djanikian’s new novel is the Barnes & Noble October Book Club Pick
Ariel Djanikian's novel THE PROSPECTORS is out with William Morrow this month and is the Barnes and Noble Book Club pick for October. From Barnes and Noble: "The Prospectors is the stor
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English MA grad publishes work from thesis
Congratulations to MA in English graduate Siwei Wang (2021), who has published a section of her MA thesis in the peer-reviewed Journal of Postcolonial Writing. The essay is titled "The Aqueous Fo
Category: Announcement
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Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan named Schomburg Fellow
The department is excited to announce that Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan has been named a Scholars-in-Residence Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the Fall 2023 term.
Category: Announcement