New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng delivered the Asian American Studies Program's 2024 Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture, focusing on her journey as an author, her struggles with mental health, ...
Thomas Jefferson’s skepticism about the ability of African-Americans to produce poetry and art prompted black authors to prove their equality in literature, Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Friday as he ...
The African American Literary Studies unit is working to formalize courses that would expand access to diverse classes while meeting degree requirements and shaping the future of the Department of ...
English and Asian American studies Prof. Michelle Huang discussed at a Monday event how Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study through which healthcare inequities could be analyzed.
A Georgetown University English professor’s lecture on the cultural and literary significance of Truman Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood” was featured on Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), ...
Author, filmmaker, and activist Curtis Chin delivered the Asian American Studies Program’s 2025 Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture on his award-winning memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a ...
The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...
As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” Much of Bo’s teaching ...