Archive: English Department
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Summer Conference at Georgetown Addresses Future of the Humanities in Higher Education
This summer, Georgetown faculty and more than 100 higher education leaders in the humanities from across the country convened on the Hilltop for the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) 2023 Summer Seminar
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Students Map Out Alternate Futures in Environmental Humanities Course
In Nathan Hensley’s Introduction to Environmental Humanities, students create multimedia projects that examine the past, present and futures of interlinked climate crises
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World-Renowned Author Explores Questions of Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Keynote Lecture
Amitav Ghosh, the internationally renowned and award-winning writer, spoke in Gaston Hall as part of the ongoing Voices on the Environment series
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Alumna Sara Jane Ho’s New Netflix Show Transforms Lives Through the Power of Etiquette
Sara Jane Ho (C’07) approaches etiquette like an anthropologist, carefully studying and documenting the minutia of social and cultural norms around the world
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Receives MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the recipient of the 2021 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for her book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
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Did the Suffragist Movement Rely on Racism? New Play Explores Hidden History
“Bitter Flower,” an original play from award-winning novelist and playwright Jennifer Natalya Fink, opens November 16.
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Hispanic, Latino, Latinx or Latine? 2 Professors Share Their Own Preferences
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and Latine culture and communities, we asked two professors to weigh in on the history, complexity and cultural significance of the identity terms they use to describe themselves and their communities.
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: Remaking the World from the Outside
Professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s debut novel, Big Girl, will hit bookstore shelves July 12th
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Alexandra Bowman Animates American Politics
Alexandra Bowman (C’22), a double major in English and art, has helped drive the national conversation around politics while sharpening her artistic skills during her undergraduate career at Georgetown.
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