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Special Issue of MELUS Honors and Remembers Joseph Skerrett

Thursday, January 31, 2019

New in print is the special issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (winter 2018, 43.4) containing essays about and dedicated to the memory of our late esteemed colleague,...
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Ocean Vuong's Forthcoming Novel Widely Selected as a Most Anticipated Book of 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Ocean Vuong's forthcoming novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, has been selected as a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Oprah.com, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times,...
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Anna Rita Napoleone Published in Hampshire Gazette

Friday, January 25, 2019

Earlier this month, Anna Rita Napoleone published an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette titled, "Classroom Chalk Talk: Better to know more than less." She reflects on generational education...
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Stephen Clingman's Article Published in Cycnos

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Stephen Clingman's article, "Gordimer's Home," was recently published in Cycnos, in a special issue on Nadine Gordimer, Jump and Other Stories: Parcours Critiques....
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Jennifer Jacobson Awarded Writing Residencies

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Jennifer Jacobson has been awarded two residencies in 2019. One will take place at Turkey Land Cove Foundation and the other at Straw Dog Writers Guild at Patchwork Farm, where she plans to finish...
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John Yargo, Doctoral Candidate, Publishes Article in the LA Review of Books on Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor

Thursday, January 24, 2019

John Yargo, a doctoral candidate in Literature, published an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books titled, "'All this Life Made This Play':  An Interview with Keith Hamilton Cobb." This...