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Elizabeth Swails

Graduate student Elizabeth Swails awarded Melville Fellowship

Elizabeth Swails has been awarded the 2018 Bezanson Fellowship for research conducted in the Melville Society Archive at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Elizabeth is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Cody Marrs.

History of a Shiver

Jed Rasula Awarded Prestigious Modern Language Association Prize

Dr. Jed Rasula's History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2016) has received the MLA's Matei Calinescu Prize, which is given to a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twentieth-century literature and thought.

McCaskill Craft Book

Cultural Front: A Notebook on Literary Art, DH, and Emerging Ideas celebrates Barbara McCaskill's storytelling

Barbara McCaskill's Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory was featured on the nationally syndicated Criminal podcast ("In Plain Sight," Episode #59, 1/20/17).  In a review of that episode published on the blog Cultural F

LeAnne Howe

Professor LeAnne Howe Speaks about Native American Heritage Month at UGA

November is Native American Heritage month at the University of Georgia.

Madison Hogan

Congratulations to English Major Madison Hogan

Congratulations to English major Madison Hogan for winning the Clearest Communication award in this year's Spotlight on the Arts 4 minutes, 33 seconds  poster competition!

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