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Category: English Department

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Literature’s Rising Stars

May 19, 2022

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New Book by Wendy C. Nielsen–Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890

May 16, 2022

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MSU English’s Prof. Lucy McDiarmid named a 2023 Visiting Fellow at a leading Irish arts and humanities institute

May 13, 2022

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Two new publications by English Department and Film Studies Professor Art Simon

April 28, 2022

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Facing Familiar Fears: Race, Gender, and Technology in Frankenstein

April 28, 2022

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Prof. Tricia Matthew Named Co-Editor of New Oxford University Press Series

February 22, 2022

Spring 2022: Poetry Readings & Lectures Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship

January 26, 2022

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A Conversation with Continental Magazine Editor in Chief

The English Department will host Sándor Jászberényi for a reading and Q&A

January 25, 2022

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“Frankenstein”, Race, and Technology: An Online Reading Group with Dr. Wendy C. Nielsen, Begins March 9, 2022

January 13, 2022

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New Essay Published by Dr. Jonathan Greenberg in PMLA

January 4, 2022

Jeffrey Gonzalez

The English Dept’s Prof. Jeffrey Gonzalez Publishes New Article on Contemporary American Fiction

August 31, 2021

Kathy Curto

Kathy Curto Recognized by New York Times Feature “Best of Tiny Love Stories”

August 24, 2021