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Dr. Andrew Zawacki Awarded Distinguished Research Professorship

Mon, 03/15/2021 - 3:30pm

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…

Dr. Ed Pavlić Renewed as a Distinguished Research Professor

Mon, 03/15/2021 - 3:10pm

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. …

Professor Isiah Lavender III's new book has made the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List

Wed, 02/03/2021 - 10:45am

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…

Stillpoint Literary Magazine accepting submissions for issue 52!

Fri, 01/22/2021 - 1:35pm

Stillpoint Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions for publication in our 52nd annual print edition! We accept prose, poetry, music, and visual art submissions from undergraduate students, graduate students, and all members of the community. The deadline for all submissions, visual and written, is February 28th. Submissions are accepted through this form. All submission reviews are blind. Any questions can be sent to uga.stillpoint@gmail.…

Barabara McCaskill and Nicholas Allen. Photo by Jason Thrasher.

Barbara McCaskill and Nicholas Allen to lead $1 millon Mellon foundation grant for their project, “Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District.”

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 10:12am

The University of Georgia’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts has received a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner with Penn Center, one of the nation’s most important institutions of African American culture. The partnership will support education and sharing among communities in the Sea Islands region of the Southeastern United States and students from UGA and its partner institutions. Full story here.

Eric Morales-Franceschini Awarded the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize

Mon, 01/11/2021 - 5:00pm

The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually, in conjunction with the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political. This years winner is UGA Profesor, Caribeño writer and anti-disciplinary scholar, Eric Morales-Franceschini. He…

Miriam Jacobson awarded a distinguished fellowship at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 4:11pm

Miriam Jacobson has been awarded a long-term distinguished fellowship at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for the 2021-2022 academic year. She will be one of eight core fellows participating in a collaborative interdisciplinary research project entitled "Sensing the Truth: Changing Conceptions of the Perceptual in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe." The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies is a…

Professor Isiah Lavender III Keynote Speaker at International Science Fiction Conference

Thu, 08/13/2020 - 1:42pm

Professor Isiah Lavender III will give the keynote speech at the International Conference on The Possible and Impossible Worlds of Science Fiction, which is being held September 11-12, 2020. Non-presenting audience members are welcome to attend this online conference for free. Dr. Lavender is the author of four books, five book chapters, eleven peer-reviewed articles and essays, two review essays, fifteen published book reviews, and three…

Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory

Fri, 05/22/2020 - 3:25pm

Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory (Oxford University Press, 2020) is the companion volume to History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford 2016). The same day the book was published Dr. Rasula received positive reader's reports for two other manuscripts which will go into production in a couple months: Lower Frequencies: Genre and Extravagance in the Novel (Oxford), and Wreading: A Potential Intelligence (…

English Department Tee Shirts Now Available!

Mon, 05/04/2020 - 5:28pm

Represent Park Hall as you work from home, support Sigma Tau Delta’s events and conferences, and give back to the Athens community! Sigma Tau Delta is partnering with Bulldawgs Against Hunger, and part of the proceeds from this sale will go to the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. Buying shirts is easier than ever – simply follow the link below to our Satisfactory Printing webstore and have the shirt shipped directly to you. Sales will end at…

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