Archive: English
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Carolyn Forché Elected Chancellor of Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets has elected Carolyn Forché, Ph.D., the newest member of its Board of Chancellors.
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Ricardo Ortiz Hopes to Make Literary Departments More Inclusive During Term As President of the Association of Departments of English
Ricardo Ortiz, Ph.D., was recently named president of the Association of Departments of English (ADE). The author, professor and former chair of Georgetown’s Department of English says that he plans to use his year term as president to address and counteract structural inequities that persist in literary departments across the United States and beyond.
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Colleen Baer (C’22) Contributes to Research at the Intersection of Religion and Reconciliation in Ireland
As part of the Figge Fellows Program, Colleen Baer (C’22) is researching the impact of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis on the challenges of peace making in Northern Ireland. Though peace negotiations in the 1990s led to the successful signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the process of reconciliation has taken much longer and is still ongoing.
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Theatre and Performance Studies Alumni Reginald Douglas (C’09) and Alexandra Templer (C’15) Return to Campus Teach in Department
After graduating from Georgetown College, alumni Reginald Douglas (C’09) and Alexandra Templer (C’15) pursued their passions in directing and acting. Now they have returned to campus to share their knowledge and life experiences with current students.
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Junior Creates Organization to Advocate for More Accessible Practices in High School Debates
Alanna Cronk (C’23) started the organization 1AC-ACCESSIBILITY (1AC), which seeks to make high school debates more accessible to those with disabilities, in the spring of her sophomore year. A speech
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Georgetown Alumna Selected to Host Washington Week
Award-winning journalist Yamiche Alcindor (C’09) was recently chosen as the next moderator of the weekly news analysis series Washington Week on PBS. This selection is the next in a long line of notable achievements from the alumna.
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Senior Proposes Legal Clinic for DC Youth at George Washington Law Through EDIJ Program
Caroline Jaipaul (C’21) is submitting a proposal to start a legal clinic at George Washington Law that will serve DC youth who are currently court-involved through oral and written advocacy and will strive to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in Washington. Jaipaul is completing this as part of her capstone project for her Education, Inquiry and Justice (EDIJ) minor.
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Alumna Finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for an Environmental Play
Theater and Performance Studies alumna Miranda Rose Hall (C’11) is a 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist for her work, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction. One of 10 finalists, Hall’s play was selected from 160 nominated pieces from around the world and will premiere this spring at Baltimore Center Stage in Maryland through a digital showing. col
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Two Georgetown Professors Receive Prestigious Whiting Award for Fiction, Nonfiction
The Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing Tope Folarin and the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Planetary Science Sarah Stewart Johnson were selected for the Whiting Award as emerging writers in fiction and nonfiction respectively. The professors were recognized at the virtual 36th Anniversary Award Ceremony last week.
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Three College Professors Receive Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards, Honored for Dedication to Educating Students
Patrick Johnson (Department of Physics), Chandra Manning (Department of History) and Libbie Rifkin (Department of English) will receive the prestigious Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award at Faculty Convocation. This award is given to those faculty members who have demonstrated that they are exceptional educators who are deeply committed to enriching the undergraduate experience.
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