We are delighted to invite you to the fourth annual Bridges and Borders graduate conference, April 12-13. This year's theme is Media (In)Forms and will feature a keynote by Cait McKinney. We encourage any graduate student in the humanities to propose a paper or roundtable.

Congratulations Pearl Nielsen on reciveing a 2023-24 Schaffer Dissertation Fellowship!

Ben Williams, a PhD candidate in LCS, has just published 'His Eyes Disappear':(Re)framing the Racial Imagination through Anti-Portraiture in Teju Cole's Blind Spot' in ASAP/Journal's most recent issue!!
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Check out the next video of our course spotlight series: Introduction to Fiction with Professor Jason England youtube.com/watch?v=naTxEb…

Hot off the press, a new book, Judicial Rhapsodies, by our colleague Doug Coulson. Congratulations, Doug, for this impressive publication!

Check out the next video of our Course Spotlight series: Professional and Technical Writing with Necia Werner youtube.com/watch?v=7Q9VK4…

'From Stage to Page,' an exhibition featuring Shakespeare's folios, has officially opened at the Frick Art Museum!

A similar exhibit that incorporates technology, 'Inventing Shakespeare,' is at the Hunt Library until December.

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Jimmy Lizama just published a book review of Lisa Flores' recent book in Rhetoric & Public Affairs!
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Benjamin Williams, a PhD candidate in the LCS Program, just published ''Who Is Kin to Me?': Textual and Textural Intimacies in Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh's Human Archipelago' in the most recent issue of Cultural Critique.
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“WOVEN: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Dietrich College' announces the launch of its 2nd Issue! A collaboration between the Dietrich College General Education and the Department of English Writing & Communication, this journal is designed to showcase the incredible student work.

Congratulations to alumna Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello ! Marci co-translated (with EJ Koh) The World's Lightest Motorcycle, a selection of poems by Yi Won, from Korean to English, earning the 2022 Translation Grand Prize from Literature Translation Institute of Korea. koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/20…

Mariam Wassif's essay, 'Emma, Empire, and the Classics,' is now out in the edited volume Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces. This volume is exciting because it 'enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in engagements with Austen in different settings.'

Please enjoy the next video in our course spotlight series: Introduction to Translation with Professor Kenya Dworkin Y Méndez. youtube.com/watch?v=LdLr8t…

Please join us in congratulating lecturer Courtney Novosat on her publication in Yours for Humanity: New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins! For more information about the book: ugapress.org/book/978082036…

Sarah Cypher has her first novel coming out with in April, 2023. The novel. The Skin and it's Girl, tells the sweeping story of a young, queer Palestinian woman who pieces together the story of family, exile, and sexual identity.

Professor Stephen Wittek joined Thomas Dabbs on the podcast Speaking of Shakespeare, discussing his new book, Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion, and developments in virtual reality in relation to Shakespeare. Listen to the episode here: speakingofshakespeare.buzzsprout.com/1732460/116755…

We are delighted to invite you to the third annual Bridges and Borders graduate conference. This year's theme is Laboring for Community and will feature a keynote by Dr. Xine Yao. We encourage any graduate student in the humanities to propose a paper or roundtable.

Congratulations Nicole Tanquary! Her book review essay entitled 'Tracking the rhetorical legacy of Donald Trump' has been published in Volume 56 Issue 2 of Communication and Democracy. Nicole adapted this work from a project she began in Stephanie Larson's class.

WOVEN, a new journal, highlights the important student work being done. We're proud to present 9 works in our first issue. Join us in celebrating the labor and brilliance of these remarkable CMU students and their faculty mentors who made this possible!
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Please join us in congratulating rhetoric professor Stephanie Larson on receiving a second award for her book! psupress.org/books/titles/9…