Archive: English
43 Articles
- News Story
Faculty Member and Alumnus Receive 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction and Poetry
Charles King, professor and chair of the Department of Government, was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for his latest book Gods of the Upper Air. This award,…
March 30, 2020
- News Story
Noted Filmmaker Ken Burns Talks to Undergraduates About Storytelling
Austin Riddick (C’20), who is working on a documentary to help garner support for a person he believes is wrongly convicted, got the chance to ask questions about storytelling…
March 2, 2020
- News Story
Facing Heartache on Valentine’s Day? Read a Poem
Elizabeth Velez (G’83) and her friend, alumna Mary Esselman (C’84, G’87), wrote The Hell With Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart (Warner Books, 2002) after Esselman…
February 14, 2020
- News Story
Serious Talk About Comedy: Free Speech Project Hosts Pop Culture Reporter
Michelle Renslo (C’22) says an event on “Free Speech and Comedy” last night featuring Elahe Izadi, a stand-up comedian and Washington Post reporter, helped her understand…
January 17, 2020
- News Story
Wu Receives Prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America
Department of English professor Duncan Wu was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America at the Modern Language Association convention in…
January 17, 2020
- News Story
Three College 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’s Excellence in…
January 13, 2020
- News Story
Georgetown Student Starts First-of-Its Kind Political Comedy Show
Alexandra Bowman (C’22), a passionate viewer of political late-night TV shows and the television offerings of Monty Python, decided to start her own political satire…
December 9, 2019
- News Story
Georgetown English Professor Finalist for 2019 National Book Award
Department of English professor and renowned poet Carolyn Forché was a National Book Award finalist for a memoir detailing her experiences in El Salvador between 1978 and 1980,…
November 21, 2019
- News Story
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…
October 31, 2019
- News Story
English Department to Pilot “Flightless” Conference Format
“Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century” is an experiment in the kind of carbon-neutral gatherings that will be necessary, organizers say, to take seriously the fact…
September 4, 2019