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    Two English instructors earn campus teaching honors

    The Office of the Provost announced that professor Janice Harrington and senior lecturer Michael Hurley were among those honored for excellence and innovation in teaching undergraduate students.
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    Justine Murison reveals the nuances of American literature

    English professor Justine Murison researches and teaches 19th century American literature. She’s fascinated by what she calls "the meeting place of the material and the immaterial: the boundaries between, for instance, psychological emotion and physiological response, spiritual striving and bodily care, and imaginative reading and social consequences." “My method is interdisciplinary, combining...
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    Mellon Foundation supports project to study anti-Black violence in newspapers

    A project to examine the circulation of newspaper reports about anti-Black violence in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. newspapers could provide context to the spread of white supremacist ideologies in social media today. "The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921" (VRT) is a partnership between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northeastern University, and...
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  • Susan Koshy is the guest editor of the latest issue of PMLA (137.5) on “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”
    Susan Koshy is the guest editor with Christopher Cannon of the latest issue of PMLA (137.5) on “Monolingualism and Its Discontents.” The introduction offers an incisive recontextualization of monolingualism as a "a category assumed more than it is named and named more than it is examined."...
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  • New website compiles ocean data from landmark 19th-century scientific voyage
    The HMS Challenger began a four-year voyage 150 years ago to explore the deep sea and the creatures that lived in it. The scientists aboard the ship discovered thousands of new species and recorded massive amounts of data about the oceans. The treasure trove of information they gathered is now...
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  • New Faculty Books in Literary Studies
    From Anustup Basu, Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke, 2020)  Basu offers a genealogical study of right-wing Hindu nationalism, demonstrating...
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