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Current English News
2013
- May 22nd English Professor wins Life Raft Debate
Students vote to save Prof. George Hutchinson over faculty from three other disciplines. Click on the headline to read the winning speech. - May 16th Two graduating English majors featured on Arts & Sciences site
Micah Del Rosario and Adam Lerner share their Cornell experiences. [Type "english" in the filter to pull up their stories.] - May 13th New graduate award in poetry scholarship memorializes Alan Young-Bryant
PhD candidate Jane Kim is the award's first recipient. - April 10th MFA poet Sally Wen Mao wins Kinereth Gensler Award
Sally Wen Mao, a recent MFA in poetry, has won the award from Alice James Books for her manuscript Mad Honey Symposium, which will be published Spring 2014. - March 29th Exhibit co-curated by Ella Diaz opens in Sacramento
Diaz will present a lecture on the exhibit, which features the work of the Royal Chicano Air Force art collective. - March 27th Cornell alumni contribute to department newsletter
In addition to faculty news, English majors Jane Smiley Hart '42 and Frank D. Wagner '67 share their tales in the latest issue. - March 8th English major wins Cornell Council for the Arts award
Andrew Borgya '13 is named Undergratuate Artist of the Year for his fiction. - February 26th M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor To Present Lecture
Professor Lawrence Lipking (Cornell Ph.D. '62) will present "Les Mots et Les Oiseaux or Words and Birds" - February 14th Spring reading series opens with Ishion Hutchinson
On Feb. 14, the Barbara & David Zalaznick Spring 2013 Reading Series begins with new faculty poet Ishion Hutchinson. - January 14th Memorial Service for Jake Adam York
University of Colorado, Denver, will host a memorial for Jake York (Cornell MFA '97, PhD '00) on January 30. - January 9th Memorial Service for Alan Young-Bryant
The service takes place on Sunday, Jan. 13.