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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.

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.

Barbara McCaskill's Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory was featured on the nationally syndicated Criminal podcast ("In Plain Sight," Episode #59, 1/20/17).  In a review of that episode published on the blog Cultural F

November is Native American Heritage month at the University of Georgia.

November is Native American Heritage month at the University of Georgia.