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Professor of English, Claire Jarvis, explores novelists who lodged erotic innuendo in descriptive passages for characters to express sexual desire. READ MORE

 

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Stanford literary scholar and Professor of English, Vaughn Rasberry, illuminates a body of work by black writers who spotlighted cultural contradictions during the Cold War. READ MORE

 

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Brittany Perham, Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, has won the 2016 Barnard Women Poets Prize. Perham was selected for the honor by poet and playwright Claudia Rankine. READ MORE

 

 
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The Kennedy Prize is awarded annually to the single best thesis in each of the four divisions of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It was established in 2008 in recognition of history Professor David M. Kennedy's long…

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Thomas C. Moser, an emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of English at Stanford University, died June 9 at his home on Stanford’s campus. READ MORE