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Lana Turner #12

Dr. Andrew Zawacki featured in the latest issue of Lana Turner

Lana Turner #12 has a 10-page feature about Creative Writing Professor Andrew Zawacki and poet Anne Portugal.  The magazine also published Dr. Zawacki's poem "Haint."

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The late Christy Desmet lives on in this new book co-edited by Desmet, Iyengar, and Jacobson

Dr. Sujata Iyengar and Dr. Miriam Jacobson announce the bittersweet launch of the 470-page Routledge Handbook to Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, which they co-edited with the late Christy Desmet and have dedicated to her memory.

Chicago Review of Books

Professor LeAnne Howe's SAVAGE CONVERSATIONS Named an Indigenous Book to Read Right Now

The Chicago Review of Books created a list of 22 books by Indigenous authors to read duri

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Dr. Isiah Lavender publishes Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Ohio State University Press recently published Dr. Lavender’s Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement. Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out.

Dr. Barbara McCaskill

Dr. Barbara McCaskill receives the 2019 Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award

Dr. Barbara McCaskill received the 2019 Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award from the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH).

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