Dylan Lewis Named to Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
The prestigious fellowship is a capstone graduate career achievement for the English doctoral candidate.
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Martha Nell Smith's article “Frozen Social Relations and Time for a Thaw: Visibilities, Exclusions, and Considerations for Postcolonial Digital Archives” will appear in the Journal of Victorian Culture 19.2 (2014). Continue on to read more!
Senior English major Norine McKee has received a 2014 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) from the US Department of State.
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Katherine E. Young publishes her first book of poems, Day of the Border Guards (University of Arkansas Press).
Congratulations to Rebecca Holden, whose co-edited book Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler, has been named a finalist for the 2014 Locus Award.
In April, Michael Olmert gave two talks--one on colonial coffee house culture, and the other titled "Architecture and Meat: Building, Working In, and Living with the 18th C Smokehouse."
Kellie Robertson's article "Materiality and the Hylomorphic Imagination” appeared in Middle English Literature: Criticism and Debate, eds. Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith (Routledge, 2014), pp. 67-375. Keep reading to learn more!
William S. Peterson (emeritus) will deliver the Peter Preston Memorial lecture in London, June 21, on "Virtual Partner: Emery Walker and the Kelmscott Press." It will take place at William Morris's home, Kelmscott House in Hammersmith.
On May 24, Cameron will deliver a paper, titled “Managing Fear and Anger in Climate Change Discourse,” at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Keep reading to learn more!
The department would like to extend its congratulations to the following recipients of various graduate fellowships and prizes!