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Akshya Saxena is 2021-2023 Dean’s Faculty Fellow in English
Mar. 24, 2021—Congratulations to Assistant Professor of English Akshya Saxena! The Dean’s Faculty Fellows Program launched in 2018 to support untenured faculty in their research, scholarship, and creative expression during their probationary period. Fellows are selected by a committee from among many highly competitive nominations because of their scholarly accomplishments and the promise they show to make an impact...
GetPreCiSe: A Transdisciplinary Research Project
Mar. 16, 2021—The GetPreCiSe Center (Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings) is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethics Research. We founded the center based on the observation that the debate about genetic privacy and identity has been based (a) on an incomplete understanding of the influences on the actors involved in genomics research and translation and (b) on possible, rather than probable, risks. Moreover,...
Allison Schachter featured for Women’s History Month
Mar. 3, 2021—The College of Arts and Science featured the work of Associate Professor of English, Jewish Studies and Russian and East European Studies Allison Schachter in light of Women’s history month. To read the full article and learn more about Professor Schachter’s research, click here.
4 English Faculty Received COVID-19 Innovative Teaching Award
Feb. 18, 2021—The Office of the Dean recognized more than 50 A&S faculty members for their exemplary instruction during the fall 2020 term. Faculty were nominated by their peers and their students for (among many things) creative teaching using multiple technologies, teaching on timely and topical issues, innovative teaching in special contexts, and ultimately keeping students engaged...
Black History Month – Literary Trivia
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Jessie Hock Releases First Book
Feb. 8, 2021—Assistant Professor of English Jessie Hock releases The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, Lucretius asserted a...
01/28 Visiting Writers Series: Quan Barry
Jan. 23, 2021—January 28, 7PM CST | Click here to register Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s north shore, Quan Barry is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of two novels and four poetry books; her third book, Water Puppets, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was...
02/04 Visiting Writers Series: Timothy Donnelly
Jan. 22, 2021—February 4, 7PM CST | Click here to register Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book of poetry is The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019). His other collections include Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensezeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. With John...
02/10 LATS Spring Symposium: Fred Arroyo & Myriam Gurba
Jan. 21, 2021—February 10, 7PM CST | Click here to register The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series is partnered with Latina and Latino Studies (LATS) at Vanderbilt University to present the 2021 Spring Symposium: Writing to Live. Fred Arroyo is the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names:...