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February 1, 2012
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January 17, 2012
Read about Vin Carretta at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
January 3, 2012
 "The Muses of Insert, Delete, and Execute" provides a profile of Matt Kirschenbaum's recent lecture and forthcoming book, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2013)
November 23, 2011
Tim DeMay, Daniel Knowlton, Erik Kozlik, Emily Lyons, and Caroline Randall are nominated.
October 25, 2011
The Comparative Literature Program is happy to announce the recipient of the first annual John Fuegi Essay Prize.
October 25, 2011
This symposium promises to help participants redefine and rethink the ways they research, teach, discuss, and conceptualize categories surrounding “world literature" and promises to have wide-ranging impact across the humanities.
September 19, 2011
The department welcomes Sarah Blake, author THE POSTMISTRESS (2010), as Petrou Writer in Residence for 2011-2012.
August 30, 2011
Join us in welcoming Professors Enoch, Gaycken, Kill, Taylor, and Wible.
July 7, 2011
The Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Information Technology have selected the Academic Writing and Professional Writing Programs to participate as fellows in the first cycle of course development as part of Blended Learning initiatives sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
May 23, 2011
Check out our up-to-date graduate placements for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City.

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