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English Professor Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow
P. Gabrielle Foreman, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and co-director of the Center for Digital Black Research, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellow grant for her creativity as a historian and leader and for her future promise.
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The Penn State English Department is committed to creativity, rhetorical and civic deliberation, scholarly inquiry, and an openness to new ideas.
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Students in our Adventure Literature courses climb, hike, or kayak their way through literary landscapes and write about their experiences.
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Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar is the 2023 awardee of the Society for Technical Communication’s (STC) Student Scholarship.

Stuart Selber gave the keynote address for a seminar on ChatGPT at the University of Desarollo

Elizabeth Foulke Essay Published in Third Coast

Congratulations to Elizabeth Kadetsky, whose essay “The Goddess Complex” was recently published in the March 2 issue of American Scholar.

Congratulations to Kevin Bell for winning the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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