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Gene Jarrett to receive Truman Capote award for literary criticism
Sept. 18, 2024
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

Jarrett has been selected to receive the award for his biography, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird.

2024 graduate student outcomes
Sept. 5, 2024

This fall, English doctoral graduates start in eight new assistant professor positions, three postdoctoral fellowships, and two visiting positions.

Anne A. Cheng's Ordinary Disasters book release and events
Aug. 29, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

Anne A. Cheng's first book of personal essays, Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, will be released on Sept. 10, 2024.

The World of Shakespeare and Company: An Introduction
May 30, 2024
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Written by Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Modernism/modernity

On May 28, 2024, the Journal of Cultural Analytics and Modernism/modernity co-published a cluster of eight articles using data from the Shakespeare and Company Project.

English celebrates Class Day 2024
May 30, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

A lowering sky on Monday, May 27, 2024 didn't dampen spirits in McCosh 50 as Princeton English gathered to celebrate its 30 graduating majors and present its annual prizes.

Gauri Viswanathan named the Stanley Kelley Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching
May 23, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

Princeton English welcomes Viswanathan for the 2024-25 academic year. She will teach in the spring 2025 semester.

Don Mee Choi named the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer in poetry for fall 2024
May 23, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

Choi received the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry for DMZ Colony. She will teach a graduate seminar, “Doing Poetry: Feminist Poetics and Translation.”

Maria DiBattista honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students
May 22, 2024
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Written by Jennifer Altmann for the Princeton Graduate School

DiBattista is one of four faculty members named recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate School.

A sendoff and a reunion at NAISIP 2023-24 year-end celebration
May 16, 2024
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Written by Sarah Malone, Department of English

English doctoral candidate Brandi Bushman and Isabel Lockhart Ph.D. '22 were congratulated on tenure-track appointments.