The role of the writer is to write, of course, but it can also include participation in the larger literary community. Professors Vievee Francis and Jeff Sharlet were given the chance to exercise some literary citizenship this year as judges of the 2019 National Book Awards [LINK:...
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From Dartmouth News, August 7, 2019
It’s a first for Jeff Sharlet. The associate professor of English and creative writing, National Magazine Award-winning journalist, and author of six books is now an executive producer for a five-part Netflix documentary adaptation of his 2008 nonfiction bestseller, The Family, which will be released for streaming on Aug. 9.
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Six postdoctoral scholars have joined Dartmouth's Society of Fellows, bringing to 15 the number of junior fellows mentored by senior fellows in a close-knit intellectual community that integrates research with classroom experience.
The Department of English & Creative writing will be home to two of the newly appointed junior fellows, James A. Godley and Nicholas Rinehart.
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Assistant Professor Joshua Bennett was one of 16 poets and authors featured in The New York Times', The 1619 Project.
[more]"The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American...
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On April 12 and 13th, 2019, four Dartmouth students delivered their work at the 40th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Listening and Learning in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance held at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire.
Professor Thomas Luxon of the Department of English & Creative Writing encouraged these students to submit their papers for presentation at The Medieval and Renaissance Forum as he has done in previous years with work produced in his...
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Senior Fellow Clara Chin '19 presents a multi-media project "Dora's Room: Digital Dreams" on view this week in the Hop Garage. The work is a visual and tactile illustration of Chin's written thesis on the famous psychoanalysis patient Ida Bauer, better know as "Dora" in Freud's 1905 publication,...
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Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—which was a National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020) and Owed (Penguin, 2020). Bennett holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and...
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Congratulations to Sarah Alpert '21, who attended NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) in St. Petersburg, FL this past weekend. Sarah submitted her work for consideration and was selected to present her poster as part of the first undergraduate session NAVSA has ever held.
Her poster was titled “Androgyny and the Gaze: Ethics, Identity, and Urban Detachment in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette", and was based on her work in Professor Christie Harner's spring 2018 course, "...
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Please join Professors McCann and O’Malley for an honors information session Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 12:15 PM in the Poetry Room in Sanborn. Pizza and drinks will be served!
For more information about the honors program in the English major, please click here: https://english.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/honors-programs-english-and-creative-writing.
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"Every week in 2018, Ivy Schweitzer and her team of students at Dartmouth College select several poems and letters written by Emily Dickinson in 1862, a year of creativity “at the White Heat,” and then frame them with a summary of the news of the time, literary culture, biographical events in the Dickinson circle, a brief survey of more recent critical responses and a personal reflection. This episode explores the “White Heat” blog, where the goal is to create immersive contexts in which to...
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