NEWS
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Recent News
Study Abroad Programs: "Victorian London's Underworld".
Dr. Melissa McLeod invites you to apply for her Victorian London’s Underworld spring break 2024 study abroad course! We will read nineteenth-century novels and travel to London to explore their settings.
Program applications are due October 15, 2023.
Scholarship...read more ❯
Georgia State Announces Grants for Research and Creative Projects in Arts and Humanities
Six faculty members undertaking research, scholarly and creative activity in the arts and humanities have been awarded internal grants to support their work.read more ❯
Arts & Sciences Faculty Member Stephen Dobranski Named Regents’ Professor of English
Stephen Dobranski, who specializes in Early Modern British literature, has been named as one of two new Regents’ Professors in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University.read more ❯
Page-Turning Perspectives on Northern Ireland
English Professor Marilynn Richtarik’s new book examines the history of Northern Ireland through a literary lens.read more ❯
At 18, English Major Ready for Graduation While Most Peers Just Getting Started in College
Jireh Hodges started college as a full-time student at Georgia State at the age of 16. read more ❯
Georgia State Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Establish Groundbreaking Literary Journal in Collaboration with Incarcerated Writers
A $669,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to Georgia State University will establish a literary journal written by, for and with the incarcerated community. read more ❯
Marilynn Richtarik discussing and reading from her new book
At 12:45 on Wednesday afternoon, February 15, Marilynn Richtarik will be discussing and reading from her new book Getting to Good Friday: Literature and...read more ❯
Amaud Jamaul Johnson Literary Reading
Amaud Jamaul Johnson Literary Reading
Monday, February 13th @ 4:30 p.m. The Troy Moore Library
25 Park Place NE, room 2343, Atlanta, GA 30303
Sponsored by the Troy Moore Library...read more ❯
“Shakespeare in Italy” study abroad program returns in 2024
Since 2007, the Department of English has sponsored the “Shakespeare in Italy” study abroad program. Dr. Paul J. Voss designs and directs the three-week course (offered to...read more ❯
But My Soul Is In Afghanistan
Six Afghan refugees studying at the Asian University for Women caught one of the final flights out of Kabul after it fell to Taliban fighters. Now they’re restarting their college careers — and their lives — at Georgia State.read more ❯
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