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Writers Here & Now: University Faculty Share Their Work

March 29, 2016 English, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House

Writers Here & Now Faculty Reading: Tania James, Emily Mitchell, Stanley Plumly & Will Schutt discuss their work.

Martha Nell Smith Publishes in Chinese Journals, Among Other News

March 23, 2016 English

Martha Nell Smith published three articles in three different Chinese journals. The pieces were generated from her work coordinating a Poetry & Translation Conference at Fudan University in Shanghai in November 2014. Keep reading to learn more.

GEO Holds Successful GEO Conference

March 23, 2016 English

GEO's annual conference took place on Saturday, 12 March, with this year's theme being "Perversions".

Washington Area Romanticist's Group with Anne McCarthy's "How to Love What You Don't Understand: Discontinuous Subjects in Godwin’s Memoirs and Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence"

March 21, 2016 English

The Washington Area Romanticists Group is delighted to have as its spring 16 speaker Anne McCarthy (Penn State University).

2016 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize Winners Announced

March 21, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

First Place winners receive $150.00; 2nd Place $100, and 3rd place $50.00.Thanks to all who submitted work to the contest! Many submissions were received.  

Holly Smith Moderating Plenary Session at Washington Writers Conference

March 10, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Holly Smith will be moderating the morning plenary session, "Books and Books: Industry Overview" during the Washington Independent Review of Books' annual Washington Writers Conference on Sat., Apr. 30, in Bethesda, MD.

Updates from PWP

March 09, 2016 English

Alexandra Calloway was named a 2016 Stamp Service-Learning Faculty Fellow. Mark Fitzgerald was invited to the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.

Writing for Change Skypes with Northwestern High School

March 09, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

English 292/388C: Writing for Change students Skyped with students from Northwestern High School last week.

Amanda Fiore of AWP Publishes in New Madrid

March 09, 2016 English

Amanda Fiore's short story "One Millimeter, Either Way" was recently accepted for publication in New Madrid, which is a literary journal out of Murray State University.

Kyle Bickoff Presents at ACLA, has Review Published

March 09, 2016 English

Kyle attended ACLA 2016 at Harvard and presented a paper “Building Empty Archives and Constructing Cultural Memory Based on Societal Metadata,” in March 2016.