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Eavan Boland wins posthumous Costa Poetry Award

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

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Justin Tackett Receives Emerging Scholars Award

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

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Jan 5 2021 | English Department Equity Initiatives

English Department statement of support of Equity and Inclusion

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Eavan Boland wins posthumous Costa Poetry Award

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