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John Bugg, Ph.D. ’07, receives Marilyn Gaull Book Award
Dec. 15, 2023
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

John Bugg, Ph.D. ’07, professor of English at Fordham University, received the third annual Marilyn Gaull Book Award for British Romanticism and Peace (Oxford, 2022).

MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize to be awarded to Autumn Womack
Dec. 12, 2023

In The Matter of Black Living, Womack weaves a complex narrative regarding the rhythms, processes and expressive archival and contemporary materials of Black life

Nigel Smith asks: is poetry political thought?
Dec. 11, 2023
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

In the 12th Ernst Robert Curtius Lecture, Nigel Smith pays tribute to one of the founders of comparative literature, by developing a subject Curtius raised.

English publishes 2022-23 annual report
Nov. 16, 2023
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

2022-23 brought notable achievements, developments, and transitions at Princeton English, notes Simon Gikandi, the Class of 1943 University Professor of English and chair.

On Rearrangement: ‘You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography’
Nov. 3, 2023
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Written by Monica Huerta, Artforum; Department of English

The word cast arms open and outstretched, signaling recognition and an offer that does not presume the addressee is a hugger: You belong here.

Waiting for Barbie
Oct. 20, 2023
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Written by Anne Cheng, Los Angeles Review of Books; Department of English

A box arrived for me in the mail. It was filled with the most exquisite, luxurious collection of rainbow-colored miniature clothes.

John Durham Peters notes gibberish
Oct. 4, 2023
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

"Gibberish is the language of the other," Peters said. "We typically attribute it to languages we don't know how to read."

Michael Goldman, scholar of Shakespeare and Ibsen, and ‘uniquely gifted person,’ dies at 87
Sept. 8, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

"A brilliant teacher, an original and inspired scholar/critic ... the most wittily congenial of colleagues,” said Joyce Carol Oates.

English goes major and minor in fall 2023
Aug. 8, 2023
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

What’s in a name? A lot, according to Dean of the College Jill Dolan.