ND English Graduate Program

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The much anticipated visit of Canadian poet Anne Carson is taking place at the University of Notre Dame on February 22nd and 23rd. Carson will give a lecture, “History of Skywriting,” on Wednesday at 7pm and a poetry reading on Thursday at 5:30pm.

https://performingarts.nd.edu/event/15532/anne-carson-history-of-skywriting/

https://performingarts.nd.edu/event/15536/sandeen-memorial-poetry-reading-by-anne-carson/

The English Graduate Student Association Symposium takes place Feb. 23-24 in Decio 235. The Symposium highlights graduate students' critical and creative work in the field of literature.

Keynote given by Shinjini Chattopadhyay, a Ph.D. alum and professor at Berry College.

The English department was well represented at yesterday evening's 2023 Walk the Walk event at Bond Hall: "Research that Matters: Scholarship Advancing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion."

Congratulations to third-year Ph.D. student Zay Dale and second-year Ph.D. student Noemi Fernández Labarga! They were two of nine doctoral students (ranging from Art to Chemistry) selected to present brief talks on their research and its impact.

"My work studies this dichotomy between violence and aesthetic animation in twentieth century black texts, suggesting that the aesthetics of twentieth century black literature violently resists aesthetic norms and create a new black aesthetic that is attuned to a literary black consciousness."

— Zay Dale

"My research focuses on the ways in which racial discourse and American literature mutually inform each other, specifically the way that race inflects language and cultural production."

— Noemi Fernández Labarga

https://walkthewalk.nd.edu/

Claudia Carroll has been awarded the Alan Nadel Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative for her June 2022 conference paper "Quantifying Reader Theory of Mind Use: Mental State Attribution and Dickensian Characterization." The Alan Nadel Prize is awarded each year for the best graduate student paper presented at the ISFTSN's annual conference. Congratulations, Claudia!