Archive: English

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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

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Hochman Receives NEH Public Scholar Fellowship

Georgetown College professor Brian Hochman has received a prestigious Public Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to work on his upcoming…

August 15, 2017

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The Ghost Professor: Feinman Todd Releases Memoir

Last month, journalism program director Barbara Feinman Todd published a memoir of her career, including her time research, editing and ghostwriting for a number of Washington's…

March 27, 2017