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"Deus Ex Homine" Exhibition at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium

Students in the 2019 fall term course God and Darwin created the exhibit Deus Ex Homine for the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
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Francis and Sharlet: 2019 National Book Awards Judges in Poetry and Nonfiction

Professor Vievee Francis judged over 300 new titles in poetry for the 2019 National Book Awards and Professor Jeff Sharlet chaired the nonfiction panel of judges, evaluating nearly 600 recent and forthcoming books.
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Bringing ‘The Family’ to Netflix

Professor Jeff Sharlet brings a five-part adaptation of his 2008 best-selling nonfiction book The Family to Netflix.
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Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholars join English & Creative Writing

The Department of English & Creative welcomes two new postdoctoral scholars, James A. Godley and Nicholas Rinehart.
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Professor Joshua Bennett is featured in The 1619 Project

Assistant Professor Joshua Bennett was invited by The New York Times to contribute to The 1619 Project's "literary timeline".
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The Department of English & Creative Writing Welcomes Prof. Joshua Bennett

This spring (2019), Professor Joshua Bennett will be teaching the course Introduction to African American Environmental Thought: The Black Outdoors (ENGL 53.29).
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Sarah Alpert '21 presents at the 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association Meeting

Sarah Alpert '21 presented her poster "Androgyny and the Gaze: Ethics, Identity, and Urban Detachment in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette" at the 2018 NAVSA meeting in St. Petersburg, FL.
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C19 Podcast: "Networked Connections: Exploring Emily Dickinson in 1862"

Professor Ivy Schweitzer, Victoria Corwin '19, and Joe Waring '18 discuss the blog project, White Heat, Emily Dickinson in 1862, on the podcast C19.
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The Department of English and Creative Writing welcomes Professor Peter Orner

This fall, Professor Orner will be teaching Writing and Reading Fiction and The Uses of Fact.
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Students Present Papers at the 39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Six undergraduate students presented papers at the 39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum at Keene State College in Keene, NH on April 13 and 14, 2018.
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Recent Publications

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"The Ecopoetics of Survival: The Transborder Immigrant Tool and The Desert Survival Series"

Melissa F. Zeiger

Ecozona (2019), vol. 10, no. 1, http://ecozona.eu/article/view/2857
Maggie Brown and Others

Peter M. Orner

Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
"Lacan and Race"

Azeen A. Khan

After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century, Mukherjee, A., ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018.
"On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Me" and "Goat"

Vievee Elaure Francis

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2019, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 34-36

Events

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Jan 27

3:00PM
Off-Campus Programs Application Workshop
Class of 1953 Commons 104 Paganucci Lounge

Are you interested in participating in an Off-Campus Program (LSA, FSP, or Exchange) but have questions about how to apply? Come to our workshop.
Jan 30

4:30PM
Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose Series: Sarah Gambito
Sanborn Library, Sanborn House

The Dept. of English & Creative Writing welcomes poet Sarah Gambito to read for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose series Thursday, Jan. 30th at 4:30pm in the Sanborn Library.
Feb 01

12:00AM
Off-Campus Programs Application Deadline
Guarini Institute

The Guarini Institute's online OCP Application is due February 1st. Be sure to get all your documents and materials in before the deadline! https://guarini.dartmouth.edu/
Feb 05

5:00PM
An Evening with Isabella Hammad, author of THE PARISIAN
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)

Plimpton Prize winning author Isabella Hammad will read from her acclaimed debut novel at Dartmouth College, Wednesday, February 5th, 2020.
Mar 13

12:00AM
Winter Term 2020
no location

Winter term ends
Apr 06

5:00PM
William W. Cook Memorial Lecture by Poet and Professor of English, Evie Shockley
To be determined

Evie Shockley, poet and professor of English at Rutgers University, will deliver the 2020 William W. Cook Memorial Lecture. The location of this lecture is to be determined.

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"Deus Ex Homine" Exhibition at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium

Francis and Sharlet: 2019 National Book Awards Judges in Poetry and Nonfiction

Bringing ‘The Family’ to Netflix

Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholars join English & Creative Writing

Professor Joshua Bennett is featured in The 1619 Project

The Department of English & Creative Writing Welcomes Prof. Joshua Bennett

Sarah Alpert '21 presents at the 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association Meeting

C19 Podcast: "Networked Connections: Exploring Emily Dickinson in 1862"

The Department of English and Creative Writing welcomes Professor Peter Orner

Students Present Papers at the 39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Recent Publications

"The Ecopoetics of Survival: The Transborder Immigrant Tool and The Desert Survival Series"

Maggie Brown and Others

"Lacan and Race"

"On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Me" and "Goat"

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