Prof. Evelyn Schreiber Awarded Toni Morrison Society Book Prize
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Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. |
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Prof. Schreiber receives the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize. |
Check out the profile of English Prof. Kavita Daiya in the fall 2010 issue of The Asian Connection, the newsletter of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, covering Spring and Summer 2010. Prof. Daiya’s research investigates questions of violence, displacement, and ethnic nationalism in South Asia. Her book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture…
For the rest of the semester, we will be featuring select students’ creative writing that they are producing in our workshop classes. The work you will read will range from poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Please check back frequently as we hope to showcase a different student’s writing twice weekly.For our first feature, I am…
I was so pleased to receive an email from Michael Bonett, Jr., my former student and advisee in the English Department. He writes: After I graduated from George Washington University, I worked in Maryland for a year. During this time, I got published on my birthday in Mindflights magazine. I left to be a Peace…
Our sidebar has grown quite long, lengthened by the occasional poll, a request for feedback, and list of department supporters. Scrolling the entire length of our sidebar can be a daunting task, so let me call attention to a few promising sections in which you might be interested, and to which you will hopefully contribute….
Judith Plotz is amazing, but you already knew that. One of our most beloved faculty members is retiring this year because, as she puts it, “Well, I thought I better retire when people were surprised I did rather than when it wasn’t surprising.” Jokes aside, Prof. Plotz has been inspiring students to follow their passions…
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Josie Price has won the first annual Student Poetry Contest for her piece “Floor-Scrapers.” Josie will be awarded a prize of $500. We also expect her to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and/or a Pulitzer some day. The competition garnered forty-one excellent poems, and we…