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DIGI@UGA Day

The 'digital' designation is becoming superfluous, if not redundant, such do we all live in a world of 1s and 0s. Not to say that we don't make distinctions between the digital and the real world, but that the intersections have become not just more numerous but increasingly complementary to each other. The Digital Humanities, for instance, refers to an area of research and scholarship at the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the…

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2015 Creative Teaching Awards

Creative teaching is not just something professors do, but it's about who they are, where they come from, the vision they have for students, plus a host of other attributes to intuitive scholarship in the classroom. This year, UGA recognizes four great ones, including two from the Franklin College: Richard Menke and Montgomery Wolf, in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Brock Woodson and Siddharth Savadatti…

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Barbarous Antiquity

The many lines connecting ancient Latin and Greek sources to English literature are fascinating trails of trade, wars, and cultural exchange that play out across time. The new book, Barbarous Antiquity, by assistant professor of English Miriam Jacobson explores these East-West exchanges and their profound ramifications for English language and literature: In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern…


Pavlić awarded National Poetry Series prize

Professor Ed Pavlić is one of our most accomplished faculty members, and even as a star among many, his sterling accomplishments as a poet, critic and cultural interlocutor stand out. His impressive resume recently received another bolded line as a winner of the Open Competition from the NPS for 2014: The National Poetry Series recently announced the five winners of its 2014 Open Competition, which included "Let's Let That Are Not Yet:…


Eighteenth century fashion and literature

There are a multitude of scholarly books and monographs written by Franklin College faculty each year and one of the things we’d like to do on the blog is talk with some of these scholar/authors and learn a little more about their new works, which are such a big part of their research. Chloe Wigston Smith is an assistant professor in the department of English who specializes in the literature and culture of the eighteenth century. She is the…

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Judith Cofer Interview

 


Visiting Hours at the Color Line

The words we use to describe a phenomenon often obscure a meaning opposite from the words themselves. The concept, or reality, of a color line in society is no different - what sounds like a stark demarcation has increasingly become an irregular, uneven blur of factors surrounding contemporary ideas of race or color. Visiting Hours at the Color Line, a new book of poetry by professor of English and creative writing Ed Pavlić is a collection…


English alumna one of six Rona Jaffe Writers' Award winners

Incredible news for department of English alumna Ashlee (Adams) Crews ( A.B., 2000) who was selected for one of the six 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards and will receive $30,000: In recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our culture and society, The Rona Jaffe Foundation is giving its nineteenth annual Writers’ Awards under a program that identifies and supports women writers of exceptional talent. The…

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East-West Fiction as World Literature

The department of English and the Franklin College welcome professor and dean of humanities at Duke University Srinivas Aravamudan to campus on Sept. 13: [Dr. Aravamudan] will give the first lecture of the 2013-14 Georgia Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century British Literature at the University of Georgia. His talk on "East-West Fiction as World Literature: Reconfiguring Hayy ibn Yaqzan" will be Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 265 of Park Hall…


You're already a double-major

In that, beyond whatever disciplinary road you choose, you are already an adherent of your native language and will continue to study its literature. Nice meditation on reading that actually applies to everyone from the other Chronicle, The Ideal English Major: Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess. When we walk the streets of Manhattan…


English PhD Matthew Nye wins Emerging Writer's Residency and Book Prize

Congratulations to Matthew Nye, a PhD student in English who was selected as the sixth winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency and Book Prize: [Nye] will be in residence on the campus of Lake Forest College from February 1 to March 31, 2014, where he will work to complete his winning manuscript, Pike and Bloom. He will receive $10,000 and, upon editorial approval, the finished book will be published by the &NOW…


Poet, artist, and art critic Marjorie Welish to read at Ciné

Poet, artist, and art critic Marjorie Welish will read from her work on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Ciné Lab located at 234 W. Hancock Avenue. Sponsored by the English department’s Lanier Speaker Series, the event is free and open to the public. Welish is the author of several books of poetry including: In the Futurity Lounge (2012), Word Group (2004), and The Annotated 'Here' and Selected Poems (2000), finalist for the Lenore Marshall…


Park Hall Monitor

Finding our what's going on with English department faculty like Ron Miller and Esra Santesso, along with news from students and staff, in the new issue of the Park Hall Monitor.

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"Paris Photo Graff"

Associate professor of English and director of our creative writing program Andrew Zawacki will present his hybrid prose-photography project, "Paris Photo Graff" Thursday, October 18 at 4 pm in room 248 of the Miller Learning Center. "Paris Photo Graff" is a series of lossely bound reflections - literary, political, social, aesthetic - on shooting graffiti in the city of light. Zawacki is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. His…


Portrait of Oscar W.

The Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde is famous for almost as many popular quotations as Mark Twain or Orwell. His late-Victorian world was peppered with all manner of dandyism and wise-crackery, captured perfectly in The Portrait of Dorian Gray. But his life was also colored by his homosexuality, closeted as it was with his wife and children, which eventually led to his imprisonment and death. A fascinating artist, and now his trial will…


Student and Alumni news

Students and alumni from the Franklin College are doing great things all over the world, here are examples from just two of those we heard about today: Jason Carter, a BFA student in painting and drawing at the Lamar Dodd School of Art has spent the summer working as a studio assistant for Berlin-based artist Michael Markwick. A selection of Jason's most recent works on paper will be on display July 22-23 at Studio M3 in Berlin, Germany. For…


Benjamin Franklin and the Franklin College

Douglas Anderson in the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at UGA. He has taught and written about Benjamin Franklin throughout his career, including most recently The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin, published by Johns Hopkins in spring 2012. Here he talks about Franklin the man, his ideas about education and his connection to the Franklin College, as well the college's central role at UGA.    
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