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Writer Yahia Lababidi, BA ’96, is loath to mix politics and poetry. But in his latest collection, he points his pen at anti-immigrant hostility.

Professor Jennifer Chang is this year's Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams award recipient! This prestigious award is given to a single US poet who has published a book of their poetry via a small publishing house.

Professor Robert McRuer published his third book, Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. This book asserts that politics of austerity will undoubtedly continue to perpetuate exclusionary realities.

Professor Daniel DeWispelare shared a few thoughts after publishing his first book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century.

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Transnational Film Studies Students to Hold Public Symposium December 8

Succeeding Outside of the Academy (Career Paths for PhDs in Humanities)

MG Lord in the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series

Matt Klam JMM Reading

In case you missed it: New Conversations about Postcolonial and Ethnic American Literatures at GW English!

Gay Panic Attack: David L. Eng

Nyssa Chow Presentation October 17

Eli Clare, "Notes on Cure," October 3

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