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Avid Book Launch: The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross (UGA English BA, 2012)

Rebecca Ross, who earned her English degree at UGA in 2012, has published a young adult fantasy novel entitled The Queen's Rising. Avid Bookshop on Prince Avenue will be hosting a book launch party on Friday, February 9th, from 6:00-7:00pm. 

James Baldwin and MLK

James Baldwin and 50 Years Since MLK

Dr. Ed Pavlic's essay on "Baldwin's Lonely Country" will appear in the Boston Review's special issue entitled Fifty Years Since MLK, available here .

James Baldwin and MLK

James Baldwin and 50 Years Since MLK

Dr. Ed Pavlic's essay on "Baldwin's Lonely Country" will appear in the Boston Review's special issue entitled Fifty Years Since MLK, available here .

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.

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