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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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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 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…

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"Hi everyone, my name is Ato Quayson and I am Chair of the Department of English.  I want to take this opportunity to welcome you all to the 2021-2022 academic year.  The past year-and-a-half have been very trying for all of us, with…

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On a recent evening, after being awarded two fellowships to support his PhD studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kartik Chandra, ’21, sat to write thank you notes to the people who had supported his academic journey.

“I…