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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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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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Gabrielle Foreman publishes new book honoring her father’s memory, “Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake.”

Xiaoye You publishes new book, “Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China.”

Elizabeth Kadetsky’s search for Indian sculptures featured in American Scholar magazine.

English cleans up in Liberal Arts Faculty and Graduate Student Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to Rebecca Haddaway (dissertation co-advised by Claire Colebrook and Carla Mulford) on being awarded a Centers and Institutes Fellows award through the Humanities Institute.

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814.863.3069

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814.863.0258

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