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Wendy S. Hesford.

Wendy Hesford Receives Yale Fellowship, to Step Down as Vice Chair

The Department of English would like to congratulate Wendy Hesford on receiving Yale University's Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery interdisciplinary fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center…

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Robyn Warhol's Graphic Memoir Class Creates Stunning Comics

“Graphic Memoir,” English 5664 in the Spring of 2016, is a course on autobiographies written and drawn by comics artists. All the students (half of them graduate students and half advanced…

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Award-Winning Rand Morrison Offers Advice to Students: Know Deeply, Write Well, Intern

Rand Morrison was teeming with advice when he sat down for his interview conducted by professional writing minor students Emily Berestecky and Trent Lammers on Friday, April 15. Morrison visited…

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Scott DeWitt Featured in Dispatch for His Ukulele Sessions

Scott DeWitt, Associate Professor of English and Vice Chair of Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy, appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday, April 24th for his work in Strings Attached, a…

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Andreá Williams Wins University's Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award

The Department of English would like to congratulate Andreá Williams on receiving the University’s Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award. The award is the highest honor that the university…

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Video Games Level up to the Classroom

This article originally appeared in The Lantern and was written by Mitch Hooper. Check out the original article.

From Tulsa, Oklahoma,…

Lynn Itagaki

Lynn Itagaki to Appear on Radio Show "Rising Up with Sonali" to Discuss Her New Book

Lynn Itagaki will appear on the radio show "Rising Up with Sonali" on Monday, April 18th, in an interview where she talks about her book Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the…

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Undergraduates Meet Goosebumps Author in NYC

16 English undergraduates enjoyed a lunch with R.L. Stine, author of the famous Goosebumps children’s horror series, in NYC last week.

Last year, Stine established the…

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Rachel Hopkin Wins American Folklore Society Award

The Department of English would like to congratulate Rachel Hopkin on winning the Sue Samuelson Foodways Essay Contest, which is awarded via the Foodways section of the American Folklore Society…