Archive: English Department
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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…
July 12, 2023
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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…
May 3, 2023
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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…
February 15, 2023
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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…
December 13, 2022
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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.…
November 4, 2022
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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…
October 17, 2022
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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…
June 27, 2022
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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…
May 18, 2022