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Oxford Centre Scholar Discusses Writing of  20th-Century Jewish Londoners

Oxford Centre Scholar Discusses Writing of 20th-Century Jewish Londoners

By Dylan Partner March 9, 2023

Oxford Centre scholar of Hebrew and Jewish studies Tali Chilson spoke on the poetry and prose of second-generation Jewish writers in London’s East End. The webinar, titled “Nature as a Respite...

BETWEEN THE COVERS | Literature’s Unrealistic Male Lead

BETWEEN THE COVERS | Literature’s Unrealistic Male Lead

By Melinda Reed March 30, 2022

Literary male leads are frauds.  Given my dedication to arguing for romance’s legitimacy as a genre, it pains me to criticize it, but I am afraid I have to because literary men are unicorns.  They...

Georgetown Professor Awarded Distinguished Classical Arabic Poetry Award

Georgetown Professor Awarded Distinguished Classical Arabic Poetry Award

By Brooke DeLucia February 3, 2022

A Georgetown University professor has received a prestigious honor for her work in the field of classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies...

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Turning the Page: The Evolution of Georgetown’s Literary Curriculum

By Meghan DeCourcey February 2, 2018

Beltway politics and palace intrigue tend to dominate Washington, D.C.’s headlines, often overshadowing the District’s thriving culture scene. Georgetown University’s own status as an epicenter...

Predicting a Freshmans Georgetown Day

Predicting a Freshman’s Georgetown Day

By Charlie Fritz and Charlie Fritz April 28, 2016

Well friends, it's that time of year: the last week of classes. We're almost to the point where we don't have to go class every day of the week. Summer is so close, yet so far (because of the gloom of...

Book Review: ‘What If I Got Down on My Knees?’

By Eugénie Lund-Simon April 17, 2015

★★★★☆ Tugging heartstrings is an art that Tony Rauch has greatly mastered. In his fourth collection of short stories to be released later this month, Rauch manages to seamlessly combine heartbreak...

New Med School Tracks Focus on Literature, Population Health

By Emily Tu April 14, 2015

To provide increasingly specialized experiences for its students, the Georgetown University School of Medicine is adding two new tracks focusing on population health and literature to its curriculum in...

No. 4 - Fragments

No. 4 – Fragments

By Sarah Kim October 26, 2014

In all our deciphered knowledge of the English language today, our pool of understanding has only diminished in depth. We no longer read with a command of the language but as if we are borrowing the words...

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UNC School of the Arts Chancellor Lindsay Bierman (CAS ’87) (left), Harvard professor Mark Poirier (CAS ’91) (center) and author Christopher Reich (SFS ’83) spoke on their careers in media Tuesday.

Alumni Authors Discuss Careers

By Emma Rizk October 24, 2014

The Georgetown University Library Associates collaborated with the English department to present “Georgetown Writes,” the first in a series of panels featuring alumni discussing their experiences...

A Semester of Arts and Ingenuity in Edinburgh

By Margie Fuchs September 5, 2014

While writing this column, I’m currently sitting at the epicenter of an explosion of clothes in my childhood bedroom. The collage of photographs, magazine cut-outs and concert tickets plastering my walls,...

What the Dickens

By Elizabeth Garbitelli January 11, 2011

Every time I am at an airport, somehow in between body scanners and three-ounce bottles of shampoo, I find myself in the nearest bookstore with an uncanny urge to buy a book, in spite of any insurmountable...

Former Prof. Wins Nobel

By Sarah Kaplan October 19, 2010

When former Georgetown professor Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on Oct. 7, his one-time colleague Serafina Hager saw the announcement as a long-awaited triumph for the Peruvian...

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