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Friday, September 6

4:00 pm Graduate Alumni Lecture

Wednesday, September 11

4:00 pm Script-in-Hand: THE REPORTER (2007)

Monday, September 16

6:00 pm British Film Series: THE LAWLESS HEART (2001)

Friday, September 20

4:00 pm Lecture: Julia Reinhard Lupton

Monday, September 23

6:00 pm British Film Series: KES (1969)

Friday, September 27

11:00 am Meet the Editor: Peter Potter, Cornell University Press

Wednesday, October 2

12:00 am Script-in-Hand: IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (ca. 408 BCE)

Friday, October 4

3:30 pm Local Americanists: "Symposium on Print Culture and Community Identity"

Monday, October 7

6:00 pm British Film Series: LOCAL HERO (1983)

Thursday, October 10

3:30 pm Local Americanists: Celeste-Marie Bernier, "Imaging Slavery, Imagining Freedom: The Body, Memory, and Representation in African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures"

Wednesday, October 16

4:00 pm Script-in-Hand: REVENGER'S TRAGEDY (1607)

Friday, October 18

1:00 pm CMLT Colloquium

Monday, October 21

4:00 pm British Film Series: KIPPERBANG (1983)

Wednesday, November 6

4:00 pm Script-in-Hand: ROCK & ROLL (2006)

Friday, November 15

3:30 pm Local Americanists: Annette Debo, "Violence, Social Justice, and the Civil Rights Years: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Natasha Trehtewey"

Wednesday, December 4

4:00 pm Script-in-Hand: GITTING (2013)

Friday, December 6

9:00 am Engendering Rhetorical Power

Friday, February 21

3:30 pm Local Americanists: Samantha Pinto

Sunday, March 2

9:00 am Absorbing Encounters: Constructing American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades

Thursday, March 27

9:00 am Soundings Conference

Friday, April 11

3:30 pm Local Americanists: Michael Gorra, "Gettysburg, at Not Yet Two: William Faulkner's Civil War"
News and AnnouncementsMore
June 13, 2013
City of New York Honors Damion Clark for Teaching
Clark, a PhD candidate, received a "Big Apple Award: Recognizing Teacher Excellence in New York City," for his work with eleventh and twelfth graders.
June 3, 2013
Robert Levine Named Distinguished University Professor
It is the department's great privilege to announce that Professor Robert Levine has been named Distinguished University Professor.
May 23, 2013
Lindemann wins Kirwan Award
Congratulations to Professor Marilee Lindemann, who has been awarded the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award for 2013.
May 22, 2013
Department Commencement Speaker Featured in Washington POST
Jamie Lee's remarks concerning the value of her English major are here:
May 22, 2013
Tenure and Promotion Announcements
It is with great pleasure that the Department of English announces the following tenure and promotion news.
May 17, 2013
Placement News
The English Department is delighted to announce the following placements of recent PhDs in 2013.
May 15, 2013
Graduate English Organization Faculty Awards
Congratulations to Christina Walter and Vessela Valiavitcharska, winners of this year's GEO Faculty Awards.
May 9, 2013
Graduate Student Fellowships and Awards
It is with great pleasure that the Department announces the recipients of the various graduate fellowships and awards for the next academic year.
May 8, 2013
Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize & Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize
The MFA Program in Creative Writing is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize and the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize.
May 8, 2013
Amanda Bailey Book Release
Congratulations to Amanda Bailey on the publication of her new book, Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England.
April 1, 2013
Irish Poets at the Writing Center
April 8: An Evening of Irish Poetry at The Writer's Center (Bethesda, MD)
March 25, 2013
CLCS Announces Nine Grants for Spring 2013!
The second round of CLCS grants have been awarded to undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and lecturers. Submit proposals for the next round by APRIL 22, 2013.
November 30, 2012
CLCS Awards 14 Grants!
The first round of CLCS grants have been awarded to undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and lecturers.
August 30, 2012
Sept. 5, 12:00 noon: Art History Professor Meredith Gill, "Augustine's Dog"
Join the Medieval and Early Modern Graduate Field Committee for their first lecture of the semester. 
December 7, 2011
December 9: David H. Hall, "The Experience of Authority in Early New England"
Join the Department of History and the Miller Center for Historical Studies for its 2011-2012 Walter Rundell Lecture in American History.
September 1, 2011
September 15: Classics Faculty Seminar (Hallett & Donawerth)
On Thursday, September 15, 2011, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, join the Classics Faculty Seminar as Judith Hallett presents a paper, "Autobiography in Fiction, Gender and Failure in Ancient Roman Love Elegiac Poetry." Jane Donawerth will give a response. Tawes 2115.
April 7, 2011
Romans in Washington
Distinguished classicist Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge, will speak on campus Thursday, April 7, at 4:00 pm in Tydings 0117.
March 29, 2011
April 7: Hector Tobar, "Immmigration, the American City, and American Literature"
The US Latina/o Studies Program and the American Studies Department present "Immigration, the American City, and American Literature," Thursday, April 7, 2011, from 2 to 3:30 pm in the Benjamin Banneker Room in the Stamp Student Union. A reception follows the talk.
March 16, 2011
LGBT Studies Lecture
Selly Thiam will be presenting "None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa," 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, 1121 Tawes, Ulrich Recital Hall
February 9, 2011
Feb. 15 Film Screening: City of Borders
You are invited to attend an exclusive screening of the award-winning film City of Borders, followed by a conversation with director Yun Suh, on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, from 7:30 to 10:30 pm in 0220 Benjamin.