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Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

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The weather didn't (totally) prevent us from celebrating the Class of 2018 at our Graduation Reception this Saturday! Congrats to all-- and please keep in touch! Some of our graduates and faculty Casey and rising second-year students Christie and Nick One is Brooke, one isn't... Thank you to the cohort for my "Brooke Award" That's a wrap on 2017-2018-- can't wait to see the amazing things you all continue to accomplish!

Recommended Summer 2018 Reading from English Department Faculty

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Michael Berthold: I’ve been teaching Octavia Butler’s  Kindred  for a number of years and look forward this summer to reading through the rest of her fiction. Butler visited Villanova back in 2002, and a number of the English faculty had the opportunity to lunch with her! Joe Drury: Here are the books I'm planning to read this summer: Jenny Erpenbeck,  Go, Went, Gone  - much feted contemporary German author. I've been told the novel to read if you want to begin to understand the current European refugee crisis. Cixin Liu,  The Three-Body Problem  - my sci-fi read for the summer, am told it will blow my mind. Preti Taneja, We That Are Young - highly acclaimed new novel about 21st century India, written by someone I worked with briefly in the grim period between college and grad school. Travis Foster: First up, a page-turner of a memoir that addresses rural white poverty far better than the aw-shucks punditry of  Hillbilly Elegy  while also telling a more comp

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2017-2018 Year in Review

It has been an awesome year for our MA students! See the 2017-2018 Year in Review Newsletter !

8th Annual Thesis and Field Examination Symposium

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A huge thank you to all of our presenters and guests at our 8th Annual Symposium. Awesome job, and congratulations to William, Stephen, Casey, Michael and Christian!

Impromptu, Pre-Last Class Picnic!

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