Archive: English Department
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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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