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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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Grady Chambers on September 19 as the Jenny McKean Moore Series begins

Sujata Iyengar to Deliver Annual Shakespeare Lecture on September 13

Helen Deutsch to Deliver Wang Distinguished Lecture in Literary and Cultural Studies

2019 National Book Festival!

Welcome Letter from the (New) Chair

Professor Evelyn Schreiber on Toni Morrison

English 3980W Now Open for Registration!

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