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Susan Rosenbaum awarded 2022 MLA Prize for her work on the digital scholarly platform Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
Dr. Susan Rosenbaum, along with Suzanne W. Churchill, professor of English at Davidson College and Linda A. Kinnahan, professor of English at Duquesne University was awarded the 2022 MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship for their work on the digital scholarly platform Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. According to a press release by the MLA: "Awarded each even-numbered year, the [MLA Prize for Collaborative,…
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10th Annual Barbara Methvin Lecture
Mark your calendars for the 10th Annual Barbara Methvin Lecture, which will be given in Park 265 on October 12th at 4:30 by Professor William Boelhower, Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of Atlantic and Ethnic Studies Emeritus at Louisiana State University. His topic will be "'Live or Die':  A Reappraisal of the Slave Narrative." Boelhower is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature (1987);…
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Professor Éric Morales-Franceschini new book studies the story of Cuba Libre and its impact on the twentieth-century popular imagination
From Virginia Press: Between 1868 and 1898, three generations of Cubans fought to free Cuba from colonialist Spain. More than a century later, no other historical narrative is as beloved and ritualistically recited as the story of Cuba Libre and the citizen-soldier known as the mambí. In town festivals and cartoons, in textbooks and hymns, in the national currency and logos alike, the mambí is the foremost icon of Cuba’s past and present.…
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Dr. Barbara McCaskill discusses the flight of William and Ellen Craft from bondage on Escape: The Underground Railroad Podcast
Dr. Barbara McCaskill discusses the flight of William and Ellen Craft from bondage in Georgia in an interview with their great great grandaughter Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely. This six-part program titled Escape: The Underground Railroad Podcast, is focused on themes of rebellion and resistance and airs on Amazon Prime and other online platforms as a companion to the Underground Railroad series directed by Barry Jenkins.
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Rodrigo Martini Paula co-edits Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism
Rodrigo Martini Paula has published an essay and co-edited a volume on Czech-Brazilian media thinker, Vilém Flusser. The essay in Comparative Literature Studies traces Flusser’s view of nationalism along with Portuguese poet Jorge de Sena. The co-edited volume, Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism (with Aaron Jaffe and Michael F. Miller, Bloomsbury 2021), brings together media scholars to engage with the multiplicity of Flusser's…
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Professor Éric Morales-Franceschini's New Book is Now Available
At once nostalgic and estranged, Autopsy of a Fall flaunts its love for the forbidden and the forsaken. Reckoning with the (imaginary) Eden that was or could have been Puerto Rico, Éric Morales-Franceschini tells the story of lives and histories wrought by imperial power and diasporic bewilderment. But, not all is loss or disaster. With emancipatory desire, this debut collection strives to poetically euthanize the red, the white, and the blue…

Statements of Support for People of Asian Descent
Franklin Senate voted to support the below statement, first proposed by the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies. The English department fully supports this statement.    "The Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies extends support to members of our student body and community who have been impacted by the recent wave of hate crimes against people of Asian descent in the United States. Over the…
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Dr. Andrew Zawacki Awarded Distinguished Research Professorship
Dr. Andrew Zawacki has been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Research Professorship.  According to the University of Georgia Research Awards website: "The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded to faculty who are internationally recognized for their original contributions to knowledge and whose work promises to foster continued creativity in their discipline." Some recent news on Dr. Zawacki: Poetry and Photography by Andrew…
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Dr. Ed Pavlić Renewed as a Distinguished Research Professor
Dr. Ed Pavlić, named a Distinguished Research Professor in 2016, has had the honor renewed for his continuing prolific and important work.  From the University of Georgia Research Awards website: "The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded to faculty who are internationally recognized for their original contributions to knowledge and whose work promises to foster continued creativity in their discipline." To learn more about Dr. …
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Professor Isiah Lavender III's new book has made the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List
 Isiah Lavender III and Georgia Tech's Lisa Yaszek's book Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century has made the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List in the Non-Fiction category. According to Ohio State University Press, "In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race…
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