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Alumna Dr. Tripthi Pillai brings pedagogy to the forefront of the classroom (9/1/2023)
Tripthi Pillai obtained her doctorate degree in English from Loyola in 2010 and dove headfirst into a professorship role. Recently promoted from Associate Professor to Professor at Coastal Carolina University and a year into an appointment as Assistant Dean of its College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Dr. Pillai has transformed Coastal’s English department’s pedagogical landscape and developed new courses and teaching practices for the curriculum.
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Dr. Aqdas Aftab introduces students to decolonization and queer theory (3/16/2023)
Dr. Aqdas Aftab started teaching at Loyola in 2021 after getting their PhD from University of Maryland. Since then, they have brought a new literary perspective focused on anti-racism, decolonization, and queer and transgender theory to our evolving English Department.
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Loyola alumna Dr. Wallace featured on John Hopkins University Press (1/18/2023)
Dr. Cynthia Wallace, Loyola alumna from 2012, was recently featured on the John Hopkins University Press blog to talk about her role as editor of the special Autumn 2022 Adrienne Rich issue of the journal Arizona Quarterly.
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Loyola's new professor of Indigenous Studies, Dr. Madeleine Reddon (12/5/2022)
Coming all the way from Vancouver, Dr. Madeleine Reddon is the English Department’s new professor of Indigenous literature. She took the post at Loyola because she feels like the university is well poised in the intellectual hub that is the city of Chicago and is a great place to be dialoguing with other universities around the city.
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Meet Loyola's new writing professor, Nami Mun (11/9/2022)
Newly appointed assistant professor Nami Mun joins our creative writing faculty from Northwestern University. What inspired her to make the move from Evanston to Rogers Park was the passion she saw in Loyola’s students during her campus interview, as well as the evident collegiality of the English Department faculty.
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VIDEO: "Typographic Transcriptions: Representing Jorge Luis Borges’s Manuscripts"
A recording of the 2021 Svaglic Chair Fall Lecture, delivered by Daniel Balderston and Celeste Martin, is now available on Panopto with LUC credentials.VIEW -
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Marta Werner discusses new book in interview with poet Peter Gizzi
Dr. Werner was invited by the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College to discuss her latest book, Writing In Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours (2021).WATCH VIDEO -
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PhD candidate celebrated for turning trash into treasure
Lydia Craig has been awarded Best Paper in the Humanities at the 14th Annual GSAC Graduate Student Research Symposium for “Library Lane: Digitally Discovering A Lost American Impressionist Painting.” The paper and presentation document her investigation into the origins of a painting found on the curb using textual studies methods and digital resources. READ -
EGSA Virtual Research Symposium
On Wednesday, March 24, the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will host their annual Research Symposium. Please join the department virtually at 3:45 pm to support Abby Palmisano and Joe Hansen as they present their research and field questions from the audience.DETAILS -
Long Le-Khac in The Economist on "hard words" and the possibilities of digital humanities
Dr. Le-Khac was interviewed in The Economist about his recent research on pervasive shifts from abstract to concrete language in 19th-century British novels. The piece contextualizes this research, an analysis of thousands of novels from this time period, as part of the rapid growth and significance of digital humanities as a field. -
Loyola to co-sponsor Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference
MSA 2021 in Chicago, to be held November 4–7, aims to commemorate the Great Migration, which brought hundreds of thousands of African Americans to the city to escape racist violence in the Jim Crow South. Participants are invited to understand migration as a capacious term, enabling new conversations about the Great Migration, migration from abroad, the current global migration crisis, and the impact of these demographic movements on modernist innovation in literature, drama, music, art, architecture, and design in the twentieth- and twentieth-first centuries.DETAILS -
45th Annual Edward L. Surtz S.J. Lecture in the Humanities: What is at Stake in the Study of Race in the Early Modern Period?
This talk explores in what ways we can advance the conversation about race in the early modern period at this moment both in the United States and the world at large. It will argue that the range of ideologies and practices about racial difference in the early modern world alert us against oversimplifying our understanding of racial ideologies and their complicated global histories. REGISTER NOW -
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What Computers Can't Read: Computational Graphology and Literary Manuscripts
Dr. Seth Perlow will be speaking on computerized methods for literary handwriting analysis Wednesday, September 23rd, in a talk co-sponsored by the Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies and the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, to be delivered via Zoom.REGISTER -
As Dickens wrote, "Don't believe everything you see on the internet": English PhD student fact-checks famous "quotes"
Lydia Craig's interest in Facebook memes made from spurious Dickens quotes inspired her article, "What Charles Dickens Never Said: Verifying Internet 'Quotes' and Accessing the Works with Online Resources," published in the latest Dickens Quarterly.
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Phoebe Stein (PhD 1998) named president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils
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Tom Purcell (BA '85) on his path from the Loyola English Department to late night comedy
The "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" executive producer spoke with Loyola Magazine on how his English education informs his comedy (and vice versa!).READ MORE -
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From Work to Tech: Digital Archives and Queer Narratives
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Caughie on the publication of her co-authored article. Click the link to read it! -
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Congratulations to our newest PhDs!
Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Kucsera, Dr. Anna Ullmann, Dr. Brandiann Molby, and Dr. Brett Beasley (not pictured).
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Congratulations to Instructor Nadine Kenney-Johnstone on winning the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award!
Nadine Kenney-Johnstone's book, Of This Much I'm Sure, was published last April and won in the category of Indie Nonfiction.
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Congratulations to PhD student Lydia Craig on being awarded the MMLA 2016 Graduate Student Paper Prize!
The Midwest Modern Language Association has awarded Lydia Craig the 2016 Graduate Student Paper prize for her paper "The Juvenile and the Erudite: A Study of the Marginalia in Newberry Case Y 12.T219." Click the link to read a summary of her paper.
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Congratulations to Johanna Doreson on winning an Outstanding Loyola Undergraduate Research Award!
Johanna, an English and Secondary Ed double major won the award at the Weekend of Excellence. Working with Dr. Jeffrey Glover, she developed a project titled "The Sons of Africa." Click the link to read a summary of her project!
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Textual Databases And Textual Computing: The Example of Bichitra, by Sukanta Chaudhuri
Join us on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from 3:00 to 5:00 in the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, Room 123 for this presentation, presented by the Martin J. Svaglic Endowed Chair in Textual Studies and the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities.
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Cynthia Wallace, a recent Loyola PhD grad. won the Lionel Basney Award!
Cynthia Wallace (PhD 2012), now assistant professor at St. Thomas Moore College in Saskatoon, Canada, won the Lionel Basney Award given annually to the most outstanding article of the year in the journal Christianity and Literature. The article is "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption," Christianity and Literature 61.3 (2012): 465-83. Congratulations to Cindy!
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The CTSDH is hosting the Society for Textual Scholarship Conference
The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is hosting the 17th Biennial Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference on March 6-8. For more info on the STS, click here: http://textualsociety.org/about/LEARN MORE -
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Dr. Pamela Caughie: Loyola's 2012 Faculty Member of the Year
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Caughie: the recipient of Loyola's 2012 Faculty Member of the Year Award! -
English Department faculty member Melissa Bradshaw, wins MLA Book Prize
Congratulations to Melissa Bradshaw for receiving the prestigious Modern Language Association Book Prize for Independent Scholars for her book Amy Lowell, Diva Poet (Ashgate Publications, 2011).LEARN MORE -
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NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant
Congratulations to Drs. Pamela Caughie and David Chinitz, who have been awarded a Digital Humanities Startup Grant for over $27,000 from the NEH. The grant will sponsor a workshop, hosted by the CTSDH, for the technical development of Modernist Networks, which will take place at Loyola in August. -
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Congratulations to Rick Rodriguez, one of 5 Loyola Ph.D.s in English to receive a tenure-track job this year!
Congratulations to Rick Rodriguez, one of 5 Loyola Ph.D.s in English to receive a tenure-track job this year! Rick, Ph.D. 2008, has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in American literature at Baruch College in New York, beginning Fall 2013.
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Liz Hanson wins dissertation award
Elizabeth Hanson (Ph.D. 2013) won this year's Graduate School Dissertation Award in the field of Humanities for her dissertation "'Making Something Out of Nothing': Asexuality and Narrative" (Director, Dr. Pamela Caughie). Congratulations to Liz on this award!
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MAGS Excellence in Teaching Award
Congratulations to Justin Hastings, PhD candidate in English, who won the 2016 Midwestern Association of Graduate School’s Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching award. -
Come see critically acclaimed author Brock Clarke give a reading from his new novel, "The Happiest People in the World."
Loyola is proud to host critically acclaimed bestselling author Brock Clarke on Thursday, November 13th at 5:15 in Regis Hall, 1st Floor Seminar Room (132-133). For the event flyer, please click the link.
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A lifetime achievement award for Dr. Frank Fennell
Dr. Frank Fennell, long-time faculty member in the Department of English and Dean of CAS from 2008-2012, was the recipient of the Newbridge Silver Literary Award this past summer for lifetime contributions to scholarship on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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New Book by Professor Steve Jones
In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steve Jones, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, examines the shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly.
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Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Glover on being named a Master Teacher by the Sujack Awards Committee
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Glover on being named a Master Teacher by the Sujack Awards Committee
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Dr. Nur Karatas and the healing nature of literature (11/2/2023)
Doctor Nur Karatas is starting her first year as a full-time lecturer at Loyola after teaching as a part-time instructor for the last two years. During her time in the Loyola classroom, she has taught students about the healing nature of literature.
