Archive: English
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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
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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 web.…
December 9, 2019
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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