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Pasquale Toscano and fellow 2024 Jacobus Fellows discuss their research in Alumni Day video
March 1, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

In celebration of Alumni Day 2024, Princeton University Advancement invited the 2024 Jacobus Fellows to discuss their research in a video.

Pasquale Toscano named a Jacobus Fellow
Feb. 22, 2024
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Written by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowships, Princeton’s top honor for graduate students, support students’ final year of study and are awarded to one Ph.D. student in each of the four divisions.

From 'The Hot Center' to the logline with Laura B. McGrath
Feb. 22, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

In a public lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 20, Laura B. McGrath took an audience of Princeton students and faculty through a half-century of literary agents changing the landscape of American literary publishing.

Rob Nixon to revisit environmental justice in Yale Tanner Lectures
Feb. 22, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

On April 3-5, Nixon will present "Ecology and Equity: Environmental Justice Revisited," the 2024 Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

Dean Jarrett’s selections for Black History Month, plus University events for learning and discovery
Feb. 12, 2024
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

Jarrett offers reflections and insights on Black History Month, along with recommended readings and film.

Uncovering history’s hidden stories: Autumn Womack’s journey from ‘Anne of Green Gables’ to Toni Morrison’s archives
Feb. 5, 2024
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Written by Sean C. Downey, Advancement Communications

In the summer after sixth grade, Womack attended a city-sponsored camp that sparked her curiosity for the objects, people and moments tied to the historical stories she loved.

Visiting early modern London: ‘The Purpose of Playing’
Jan. 18, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

On the afternoon of Oct. 16, 2023 — cool but sunny in London — students in the seminar “The Purpose of Playing” stepped out onto the open-air stage of Shakespeare's Globe.

My long relationship with modernist writing
Jan. 18, 2024
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Written by Demet Karabulut Dede, Department of English

The emergence of modernist writing within Turkey is situated in the 1940s, rooted in the tension and dualism between belatedness and modernization.

Diana Little receives 2024 Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant
Jan. 12, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

Little, a fifth-year English department Ph.D. candidate, received the grant for field work in the south of England about chalk geology and chalk industry.