The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Danielle Evans will join the department as an Assistant Professor in fall 2018. In 2011, she was honored by the National Book […]
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The Writing Seminars Welcomes Visiting Assistant Research Professor, Mark Lasswell
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Mark Lasswell will join the department as a Visiting Assistant Research Professor. He will teach a class in journalism and opinion for […]
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Writing Seminars Undergraduates Admitted to Top MFA Programs
The faculty of the Writing Seminars proudly congratulate the following undergraduate Writing Seminars majors on having accepted offers of admission to MFA programs in Creative Writing, beginning Fall 2017: Madison […]
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Kate Robinson, M.F.A. ’12, Awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Katherine Robinson, M.F.A ’12, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a research PhD in English at Cambridge University. Endowed by Bill and Melinda Gates, the Gates Scholarship enables […]
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Matt Morton, M.F.A. ’14, Chosen as a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow
Congratulations to Writing Seminars graduate Matt Morton (MFA 2014) on being chosen as a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. Morton is one of 37 fellows chosen […]
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David Yezzi Selected for Engaged Faculty and Community Fellows Program
Writing Seminars chair, David Yezzi, has been awarded an Engaged Faculty Fellowship by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Social Concern. The Fellowship, which includes support for a graduate assistant, a $2,000 […]
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The Writing Seminars Welcomes Writer-in-Residence, Dinaw Mengestu
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Dinaw Mengestu will join the department as a Writer-in-Residence through the President’s Reading Series: Literature of Social Import in spring 2017. His […]
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“T.S. Eliot and Matters of Principle”: A Turnbull Lecture by Christopher Ricks
Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 6:00 p.m., Mudd 26. Christopher Ricks is William M. Warren and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston […]
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Jean McGarry Named Elliott Coleman Professor in The Writing Seminars
Jean McGarry was appointed to the Elliott Coleman Professor in The Writing Seminars. In 1947 Elliott Coleman founded the Hopkins Writing Seminars, which was only the second such program in the […]
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The Writing Seminars Presents: A Turnbull Lecture by Linda Gregerson
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:30 p.m., Gilman 50 Linda Gregerson is the author of five poetry collections: The Selvage (2012), Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), The Woman Who Died in Her […]