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  • Christian Haines

    Welcome to Assistant Professor Christian Haines, arriving this fall.

    Professor Haines has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

    Dissertation: A Desire Called America: Biopolitics and Utopian Forms of Life in American Literature

    Publications

    • "Paradise Actually Exists: Biopolitics and Utopian Praxis in William S. Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads": Haines, Christian, Duke...
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  • Alumni Publications

    Madison Pauly '15- Why Taylor Woolrich Wanted A Gun
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/madisonpauly/why-taylor-woolrich-wanted-a-gun

    Sharma Divyanka '13 - To Benares
    http://www.metapress.com/content/q700136g322129375

    Shannon Draucker '13 - Love...

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  • 2014 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony Submission Details

    The 2015 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony is in Sanborn Library at 4pm on May 14, 2015

    SUBMISSION DETAILS

    • The deadline for submissions is April 22, 2015.
    • Please use a cover sheet to indicate your name, your entry titles, and the prizes for which you would like your work considered.
    • Drop off your submissions in 201 Sanborn (the Shakespeare Room) any time before the deadline.
    • Fiction and creative nonfiction submissions are limited to one short...
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  • From Russia: No Love

    From Dartmouth Now:

    Jeff Sharlet traveled to Russia in November 2013, researching the impact of a 2012 law forbidding the distribution of “homosexual propaganda” to minors.

    Read the story here: http://now.dartmouth.edu/2014/02/from-russia-no-love/

     

  • Great Opportunity for English Majors and Minors!

    Are you interested in writing poetry?
    The Frost Place and the English Department are offering three scholarships to Dartmouth English majors and minors for The Frost Place summer conferences in 2014.
    There are three separate conferences:
    The Conference on Poetry and Teaching TBD, Application Deadline TBD
    The Frost Place Conference on Poetry from TBD Application Deadline TBD
    The Poetry Seminar from TBD, Application Deadline TBD.
    Each conference and its faculty is...

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  • Madeline Lesser '13 wins Jonathan B. Rintels Prize

    Madeline Lesser's thesis, “INWARD APPARITION”: RE-IMAGINING MILTON’S GOD, is this year's winner of the Jonathan B. Rintels Prize,  "for the best honors thesis in the Arts and Humanities for the Class of 2013."

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    Elizabeth Kelsey

    Department of English honors presentations bring collaboration to an often solitary pursuit

    It’s a sunny late April afternoon and Sanborn House’s Wren Room is packed to overflowing as Laura Bryn Sisson ’13 presents her short story collection, Fragile Bodies.

    Sisson is an honors student in the English department. Her work, she explains, explores “all that is strange and mysterious to me about reproduction, about family relationships,...

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