Faculty Seminar on the Teaching of Writing Transforming Undergrad Courses
The Cambridge History of World Literature
Carmen Lamas wins MLA Prize in U.S. Latina & Latino and Chicana & Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
From the Press Release from the MLA:
Gregory Orr Wins Library of VA Award
Creative Writing Professor Emeritus Gregory Orr has won a Library of Virginia Award for his latest book, Selected Books of the Beloved. Professor Orr was honored at the awards ceremony on October 14.
Press release here: https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/books-and-literature-virginia-210b14952d5eeb5ec58eeb3364a69cd7
Rita Dove receives Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
The National Book Foundation, administrator of the annual National Book Awards, announced that Rita Dove is the recipient of this year's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is only the fourth poet to be so honored, after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1994, Adrienne Rich in 2006 and John Ashbery in 2011.
Full announcement:
Bright: A Memoir
Languages of Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives
Co-edited with Anita Norich.
Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel
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News & Announcements
December 6, 2023
Publications
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation and Historiography
Events
Tuesday, November 19th
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Camille Dungy Reading & Kapnick Writers Gala
- Where: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
Friday, November 22nd
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Monroe Hill Lunch for Faculty, Majors, and Minors
- Where: Monroe Hill House/Range, 252 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Monday, December 2nd
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Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas (2024) by Prof. Renee Hudson (Chapman University)
- Start time: 05:30pm
- End time: 06:30pm
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Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas (2024) by Renee Hudson (Professor Hudson will be joining us via zoom in the Faculty Lounge at 5:30 pm). Please email Carmen Lamas at cel5x@virginia.edu for the excerpted reading.
Friday, January 17th
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Austin Benson Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Friday, January 31st
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Seanna Viechweg Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm