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Shanna Yetman's (MFA '12) flash fiction "The Miracle Is to Walk this Earth" recently won first place in the New Millennium Writing Competition. Her fiction will be featured in the 2016 anthology and she will receive $1000.
Nabila Hijazi and Douglas Kern presented on the English Department’s Academic Writing Teaching Partners Program at the Lilly International Spring Conference on May 29, 2015.
On June 3, 2015, Nabila Hijazi presented the Keynote talk, “Cultural and Linguistic Awareness,” for the Virginia Writing Center Association’s Writing Center Directors’ meeting.
Douglas Kern is serving as the Academic Advisor for Amiri Baraka’s entries in the 2014 Contemporary Literary Criticism and Drama Criticism series, published by Gale.
Congratulations to the sixteen ARHU students who won the Summer 2015 Bright Futures Scholarships!
Emily Mitchell's book of short stories Viral will be published on June 29th.
On May 18, 2015, Michael Olmert lectured to students from the St. Michael's, MD., middle school on the material culture of the 18th Century. Topics covered were architecture, brickwork, townscape planning, food, market-days, and tools.
Bob Levine spoke at Vanderbilt in May on “The Canon and the Survey: An Anthologist’s Perspective"
Joshua Weiner's essay on Gottfried Benn appeared in the spring issue of Threepenny Review.
DeLisa Hawkes, a doctoral student in the Department, will participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers on Paul Laurence Dunbar and American Literary History.