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Roger Stoddard

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Education: A.B. 1957 Brown
Interests: Rare books; Bibliography
Selected Works: A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 (2012); A Library-Keeper’s Business (2002); Edmond Jabès in Bibliography–...

2017-18 Prize Recipients

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We are thrilled to announce this year’s prize recipients! Critical Prizes Boston Ruskin Prize Emma Adler, English PhD Candidate for “‘Unquiet Meals': On Eating Beauty” Helen Choate Bell Prize (Essay) Thomas Dolinger, English PhD Candidate for “‘Words are...

Luke Menand named Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences

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Michael D. Smith, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, created the professorship program to recognize scholarly achievement at the highest level within FAS. The chair appointments are awarded on a rotating basis for five-year terms....

Chris Spaide receives Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates

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Doctoral Student Chris Spaide has received one of the five prestigious Derek C. Bok Awards for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates.The award is given each year by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to five teaching fellows who...

Boylston Prize for Elocution 2018

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Sam Marks, playwright and Senior Preceptor on English, hosted the final round of the 2018 Boylston Prizes For Elocution, held on Wednesday, April 4th in Sever Hall. The Boylston Prizes for Elocution were established in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in...

Elaine Scarry Awarded the Academy of Arts & Letters Morton Dawen Zabel Award in Literature

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The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced last week the names of 15 writers who will receive its 2018 awards in literature. The awards will be presented in New York at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May. Elaine Scarry was awarded the Morton...

Barbara Lewalski (1931-2018)

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Written by Prof. Gordon Teskey: This past Friday, March 2nd, 2018, we lost our beloved and awesome colleague Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, one of the greatest Miltonists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A titanic figure in modern seventeenth...

Calligraphy Workshop 2018

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Professional calligrapher Maryanne Grebenstein from The Abbey Studio gave students from Professor Donoghue’s English 40. Arrivals: British Literature 700-1700 and English 103g. Old English: Working with Manuscripts students a lesson in hand-lettering this...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tartar receive Award in Literature at 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tartar received the Fiction Award in Literature at the 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards on Monday, January 15, 2018, as editors of “The Annotated African American Folktales.” “‘The Annotated African American Folktales,’ which...

Stephen Greenblatt, "Irresistible Fictions" (Think Again Podcast #118)

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“An ancient, one-and-a-half-page-story that just won’t let us go. Humanities scholar Stephen Greenblatt and host Jason Gots discuss how Adam and Eve have shaped and been shaped by Western art, culture, and science, in this, Big Think‘s latest brain...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Awarded Massachusetts Humanities Council Governor's Award

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“Gates was honored for his tireless work highlighting the history and accomplishments of Africans and African Americas. He has written or authored 21 books and created 17 documentary films. He said his most important work was unearthing the writings and...

Bok Center Teaching Awards for Spring 2017

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The Department of English extends its congratulations to the following English Teaching Fellows, who were just awarded Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, for spring term 2017: Certificates of...