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Congratulations to Gabriel Aguilar, who won Best Paper for the 2020 ACM SIGDOC conference (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Design of Communication).

Manini Samarth, whose collection of short fiction, tentatively titled Being Here, has been chosen this year as the 2020 prose winner in the University Press of Kentucky’s New Poetry and Prose Series

Congratulations to Andrew Bode-Lang for the publication of two of his poems, "Origin Story" and "All is Mist"

Shirley Moody-Turner Joins Dean Lang and Others in the Latest Episode of HumIn Focus, "Who Counts: The Complexities of Democracy in America"

Congratulations to Stuart Selber, whose new monograph, Institutional Literacies: Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication, has recently been published by the University of Chicago Press.

Mary Sellers successfully defended her dissertation, "E.D.E.N. Southworth, Storyteller," and received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Penn State in August.

Claire Bourne’s monograph, Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England, has been published (as of earlier this month) by Oxford University Press

John Marsh compares the Coronavirus crisis to the Great Depression in an article for the "NY Daily News."

Jake Maynard's essay "Trying to Keep Up with Grandma's Love Life" was published in the Modern Love column of The New York Times.

Verna Kale was the featured scholar for a live National Humanities Center webinar in the Humanities in Class series.

Congratulations to Michael Anesko and his editorial team on the recognition they have received from MLA.

Brandon Erby, who wrote his dissertation under Keith Gilyard's direction, has taken a tenure track position at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

His new title is Assistant Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies. Congratulations, Professor Erby!

Bob Burkholder's English 183Z class was featured in the New York Times.

Doctoral student Nathan Voeller has just published an article, “The Digital Sensorium: Considering the Senses in Website Design,” in the peer-reviewed journal Computers and Composition.

Congratulations to Nathan for placing his article in such a high-quality journal. Well done!

Matt Tierney's new monograph, Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies, has been published by Cornell.

Claire Bourne helps uncover rare treasure.

Congratulations to John Smilges for winning the 2019 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize of the America Studies Association!

Chris Reed has won Penn State's 2019 Faculty Scholar Award in the Arts and Humanities. Congratulations Chris!

Sandy Spanier was recently promoted to an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and WGSS. Congratulations Sandy!

Rachael Lyon Wiley's latest translation project, a full-length translation of contemporary poetry by Irmgard Löschner, in collaboration with the author, ein Baum voll perlgrauer Tauben (a tree full of pearl gray doves), was released by Verlag Berger 11/18

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Congratulations to Gabriel Aguilar, who won Best Paper for the 2020 ACM SIGDOC conference (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Design of Communication).

Manini Samarth, whose collection of short fiction, tentatively titled Being Here, has been chosen this year as the 2020 prose winner in the University Press of Kentucky’s New Poetry and Prose Series

Congratulations to Andrew Bode-Lang for the publication of two of his poems, "Origin Story" and "All is Mist"

Shirley Moody-Turner Joins Dean Lang and Others in the Latest Episode of HumIn Focus, "Who Counts: The Complexities of Democracy in America"

Congratulations to Stuart Selber, whose new monograph, Institutional Literacies: Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication, has recently been published by the University of Chicago Press.

Mary Sellers successfully defended her dissertation, "E.D.E.N. Southworth, Storyteller," and received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Penn State in August.

Claire Bourne’s monograph, Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England, has been published (as of earlier this month) by Oxford University Press

John Marsh compares the Coronavirus crisis to the Great Depression in an article for the "NY Daily News."

Jake Maynard's essay "Trying to Keep Up with Grandma's Love Life" was published in the Modern Love column of The New York Times.

Verna Kale was the featured scholar for a live National Humanities Center webinar in the Humanities in Class series.

Congratulations to Michael Anesko and his editorial team on the recognition they have received from MLA.

Brandon Erby, who wrote his dissertation under Keith Gilyard's direction, has taken a tenure track position at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Bob Burkholder's English 183Z class was featured in the New York Times.

Doctoral student Nathan Voeller has just published an article, “The Digital Sensorium: Considering the Senses in Website Design,” in the peer-reviewed journal Computers and Composition.

Matt Tierney's new monograph, Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies, has been published by Cornell.

Claire Bourne helps uncover rare treasure.

Congratulations to John Smilges for winning the 2019 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize of the America Studies Association!

Chris Reed has won Penn State's 2019 Faculty Scholar Award in the Arts and Humanities. Congratulations Chris!

Sandy Spanier was recently promoted to an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and WGSS. Congratulations Sandy!

Rachael Lyon Wiley's latest translation project, a full-length translation of contemporary poetry by Irmgard Löschner, in collaboration with the author, ein Baum voll perlgrauer Tauben (a tree full of pearl gray doves), was released by Verlag Berger 11/18

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