Archive: English

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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

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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 by…

October 31, 2019

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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

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Senior Explores Jewish Identity in Ghana

Corine Forward (C’19) has always been fascinated by the concept of identity, especially identities that seem mysterious or idiosyncratic to most of the world. This interest…

January 14, 2019

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Hirsh Wins CCMA Engaged Scholarship Career Award

The award recognizes and honors a scholar for “outstanding research in curricular and/or co-curricular service learning which advances the field.&;…

October 10, 2018

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Cooper, Rich Advocate for Liberal Arts

Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper (C’97) and Warner Bros. executive Blair Rich (C’97) visited Georgetown last Tuesday for a discussion with President…

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 and…

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 a…

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 humans…

February 6, 2018

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Alcindor Named to The Root 100

New York Times journalist Yamiche Alcindor (C'09) was named to The Root 100, an annual list of top African American cultural.…

September 25, 2017