Archive: English
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Three 海角论坛 Professors Honored at Faculty Convocation & Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards
Nathan Hensley (Department of English), Catherine Keesling (Department of Classics), and Manus Patten (Department of Biology) will receive the prestigious Dean鈥檚 Excellence in鈥�
January 13, 2020
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Georgetown Student Starts First-of-Its Kind Political Comedy Show
Alexandra Bowman (C鈥�22), a passionate viewer of political late-night TV shows and the television offerings of Monty Python, decided to start her own political satire web.鈥�
December 9, 2019
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Georgetown English Professor Finalist for 2019 National Book Award
Department of English professor and renowned poet Carolyn Forch茅 was a National Book Award finalist for a memoir detailing her experiences in El Salvador between 1978 and 1980,鈥�
November 21, 2019
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Esteemed Poet and Translator Gives Talk on New Book
Dick Davis, globally acknowledged leading translator of Persian poetry, gave a reading from his newly published book The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by鈥�
October 31, 2019
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English Department to Pilot 鈥淔lightless鈥� Conference Format
鈥淓cology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century鈥� is an experiment in the kind of carbon-neutral gatherings that will be necessary, organizers say, to take seriously the fact鈥�
September 4, 2019
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Senior Explores Jewish Identity in Ghana
Corine Forward (C鈥�19) has always been fascinated by the concept of identity, especially identities that seem mysterious or idiosyncratic to most of the world. This interest鈥�
January 14, 2019
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Hirsh Wins CCMA Engaged Scholarship Career Award
The award recognizes and honors a scholar for “outstanding research in curricular and/or co-curricular service learning which advances the field.&;鈥�
October 10, 2018
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Cooper, Rich Advocate for Liberal Arts
Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper (C’97) and Warner Bros. executive Blair Rich (C’97) visited Georgetown last Tuesday for a discussion with President鈥�
September 17, 2018
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Linkon Publishes Book on Deindustrialized Communities' Literature
Professor Sherry Linkon of the Department of English at Georgetown 海角论坛 has published a new book on contemporary working-class literature, which she presented at a reading and鈥�
May 8, 2018
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McNamer Book Wins MLA Award
Georgetown 海角论坛 English and medieval studies professor Sarah McNamer was awarded the 2017 Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a鈥�
March 26, 2018