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Carlos Nugent wins 2020 Foerster Prize

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Norman Foerster Prize, awarded to the best essay of the year went to Carlos Alonso Nugent

Eavan Boland wins posthumous Costa Poetry Award

The late Eavan Boland has posthumously won the Costa Poetry Award for her final collection, The Historians

English Department statement of support of Equity and Inclusion

Justin Tackett Receives Emerging Scholars Award

Dr. Justin Tackett has won the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Emerging Scholars Award for his Review of English Studies article, “‘I heard...

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Carlos Nugent wins 2020 Foerster Prize

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English Department statement of support of Equity and Inclusion

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