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Dear friends and colleagues,

I hope this message finds you well. We are very excited to announce the return of the Stanford Workshop in Poetics for the 2021-2022 academic year. In particular, we are pleased to share that, barring any…

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The latest issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, a journal co-sponsored by Stanford’s American Studies Program, is now online. The journal is proud to publish a new essay by Kevin K. Gaines, "Reflections on Ben Okri,…

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Elaine Treharne has been awarded a 2021-2022 Clayman Institute for Gender Research Fellowship, for her project ‘Reinscribing Women Writers, 500-1500’. This new research project addresses the difficult issue of discovering women scribes in…

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The New Antiquarian | 2021 NCBCC Winners

Our own Jessica Jordan is the 2021 winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. She is the only student from Stanford to have won the NCBCC, congratulations Jessica! 

There will be a ceremony at the Library of Congress…

The Old Globe

The Old Globe Theater has adapted Roanne Kantor's 2015 translation of a book of short stories by the Argentinian author Juan José Saer into a zoom performance called Anonymous Biography . Professor Kantor worked as a…