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Two Lewis & Clark literary scholars are earning major media attention for their role in bringing Ralph Ellison’s long-awaited second novel to life. -
English Professors Mary Szybist and Jerry Harp share their poetry in an episode of the Australian radio show Poetica. Listen online. -
Junior English majors Sarah Osborne and Riley Johnson were both recipients of the 2010 Dixon Award. Each student will receive a $2,500 grant to conduct research associated with their English studies. Both students will be studying materials at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the British Library. Applications for the 2011 Dixon Award will be available in November.
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Summer Sessions Registration is Now Open.
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Jerry Harp, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, is one of 75 poets from across the country included in The Best American Poetry 2009. Harp’s poem, “Houses”, appears in this year’s edition of the celebrated series dedicated to showcasing the work of poets at their best. The poem first appeared in the literary journal Pleiades. -
Will Pritchard’s book Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London was published in December 2007 by Bucknell University Press. -
English professor Pauls Toutonghi talks with the LA Times about his course on the rock ‘n’ roll novel.
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The 2009 Jerry Baum Award winner is Charles Macquarie for his senior seminar paper: “The Self that Springs from the Shadows: Irresponsibility, Lighting, and the Redefinition of Selfhood in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting.’”
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On Monday, February 15, Jerry Harp, poet and visiting assistant professor of English, will engage students, faculty, and staff in a rich discussion about Ralph Ellison.
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Profesor Jerry Harp’s book Constant Motion: Ongian Hermeneutics and the Shifting of Early Modern Understanding was released November 2009 by Hampton Press. -
Professor John Callahan, literary executor for Ralph Ellison, discusses the risks and rewards of posthumous publications in this Wall Street Journal article.
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Professor Mary Szybist is on a roll….
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Junior English major Marley Badolati received the 2009 Hillary and Adam Dixon Award.
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Assistant Professor Karen Gross has won an Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award for 2007-08. -
Stephanie Elliott is the winner of the 2008 Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem, “What the Tattoo Artist Said.”
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The Department of English is located in Miller Center for the Humanities.
email english@lclark.edu
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Department Chair Rishona Zimring
Administrative Assistant Debbie Richman
Department of English
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Portland, Oregon 97219
