Archive: English
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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 to…
March 2, 2020
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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 suffered a…
February 14, 2020
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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 the…
January 17, 2020
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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
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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 that…
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