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 Dr. Ed Pavlić

The Daily Iowan features Dr. Ed Pavlić

Iowa newspaper The Daily Iowan featured a story about Dr. Ed Pavlić's reading at Prairie Lights Books & Cafe in Iowa City, Iowa..  Dr. Pavlić read from his 2015 book Who Can Afford to Improvise?

Sarah Mayo

PhD Candidate Sarah Mayo Wins Fellowships

Sarah Mayo, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of English, has been awarded the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship funded by the Andrew W.

Barbara McCaskill helps English major Laura Essex with a project during her literary magazine editing class. Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski

Dr Barbara McCaskill featured in Columns

Barbara McCaskill's parents grew up in the segregated South under Jim Crow laws.

Who Can Afford to Improvise?

Dr. Ed Pavlić discusses James Baldwin during a radio interview Raoul Peck, director of the new Baldwin documentary, and others

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Painting of Sequoyah

Watch the Searching For Sequoyah trailer!

Searching For Sequoyah is a documentary about the man who invented a written form of the Cherokee language.  The film begins with the familiar story of Cherokee syllabary, but also looks at the much lesser known stories of the Old