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Georgetown Student Starts First-of-Its Kind Political Comedy Show
Alexandra Bowman (Cโ22), a passionate viewer of political late-night TV shows and the television offerings of Monty Python, decided to start her own political satire๏ฟฝโฆ
December 9, 2019
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Georgetown English Professor Finalist for 2019 National Book Award
Department of English professor and renowned poet Carolyn Forchรฉ was a National Book Award finalist for a memoir detailing her experiences in El Salvador between 1978 and 1980,โฆ
November 21, 2019
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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 byโฆ
October 31, 2019
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English Department to Pilot โFlightlessโ Conference Format
โEcology and Religion in the Nineteenth Centuryโ is an experiment in the kind of carbon-neutral gatherings that will be necessary, organizers say, to take seriously the factโฆ
September 4, 2019
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Senior Explores Jewish Identity in Ghana
Corine Forward (Cโ19) has always been fascinated by the concept of identity, especially identities that seem mysterious or idiosyncratic to most of the world. This interestโฆ
January 14, 2019
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Hirsh Wins CCMA Engaged Scholarship Career Award
The award recognizes and honors a scholar for โoutstanding research in curricular and/or co-curricular service learning which advances the field.&;โฆ
October 10, 2018
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Cooper, Rich Advocate for Liberal Arts
Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper (Cโ97) and Warner Bros. executive Blair Rich (Cโ97) visited Georgetown last Tuesday for a discussion with Presidentโฆ
September 17, 2018
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Linkon Publishes Book on Deindustrialized Communities' Literature
Professor Sherry Linkon of the Department of English at Georgetown College has published a new book on contemporary working-class literature, which she presented at a reading andโฆ
May 8, 2018
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McNamer Book Wins MLA Award
Georgetown College English and medieval studies professor Sarah McNamer was awarded the 2017 Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for aโฆ
March 26, 2018
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In Anthropocene Seminar, Humanists Tackle Environmental Issues
Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change is a series of lectures, art installations, and group discussions that critically examine the ways humansโฆ
February 6, 2018