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Professors Mitchell and McRuer Receive Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewers
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Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, “Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century”
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Graduate Student D Gilson Wins Larry Neal Poetry Award
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Alexa Alice Joubin Joins English Department
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