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Spring 2020 - new course topic: English 318 Rhetoric for Writers with Dr. Andrea Delgado "Wild Tongues Cannot Be Tamed: Writing Identity into Research"

Spring 2020 New Course Topic English 360 / 560 Studies in Literature: BLACK LIVES MATTER "Black lives matter" is a hashtag, an intersectional global movement, and a powerful theme resonating through African American literature, from the 1700s to the present. This course satisfies requirements for English majors and minors, CRGS majors in Ethnic Studies, and Ethnic American Literature minors.

Hope is the thing with feathers - (314) EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers -... That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.

Saturday, November 7, 2020 (Online events) HSU CAMPUS/COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ON RACE: NEA Big Read Keynote Address: Claudia Rankine BOOK TALK: Just Us: The Space of the Conversation (11am, 11/7) ... CDOR/BIG READ KEYNOTE: Making of Citizen (2pm, 11/7) | Register here NEA Big Read & Campus/Community Dialogue on Race Keynote Fall 2020 Visiting Writer - HSU English Department About Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, which was a National Book Award finalist and was recognized with the Forward Poetry Prize. Rankine is also known for her plays including The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her next publication, Just Us: An American Conversation, is a collection of essays forthcoming with Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. http://www.literaryhumboldt.org/events.html