A Life-Changing Move: Student Sadie Dunham
March 28, 2024
Originally from Ouray, Colorado, Sadie Dunham is a junior majoring in International Business and minoring in English Literature.
March 28, 2024
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English Language and Literature News
A Time to be Grateful: Student Vishwa Parmar
March 21, 2024
Vishwa Parmar is a student from India with a major in English Literature and minor in Communications and Art and Design.
March 21, 2024
JCU to Welcome Rachel Cantor as Summer 2024 Writer in Residence
March 19, 2024
John Cabot University is pleased to announce that author Rachel Cantor will be the Summer 2024 Writer in Residence for the JCU Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
March 19, 2024
JCU Alumnus and Professor Mattia Maglione Co-translates Oliver Twist
January 26, 2024
JCU alumnus and English professor Mattia Maglione recently co-translated Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens into Italian with translator Livio Crescenzi.
January 26, 2024
Professor Tara Keenan Receives Grant to Write Guide on AI Tools
January 25, 2024
John Cabot University English Composition Professor Tara Keenan has received a grant to write a strengthening guide that makes use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.
January 25, 2024
Professor Carlos Dews Delivers Keynote Address at American Literature Society of Japan Conference
November 14, 2023
On October 22, JCU Professor Carlos Dews delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Literature Society of Japan.
November 14, 2023
Professor Aidan Fadden Publishes Three New Poems
October 5, 2023
JCU professor Aidan Fadden published three poems last September, in issue 89 of The Cannon's Mouth, the quarterly journal of Birmingham (UK) poets.
October 5, 2023
Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation Welcomes Susan Bradley Smith
May 26, 2023
On May 24, the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation kicked off its Summer 2023 events with a reading by this year’s Writer in Residence, Australian author and feminist scholar Susan Bradley Smith.
May 26, 2023
Meet Class of 2023 Valedictorian Irene Palermo
May 15, 2023
John Cabot University’s Dean of Academic Affairs Stefano Arnone is pleased to announce the Valedictorian for the Class of 2023, Irene Palermo. Irene has earned a B.A. in English Literature summa cum laude, with minors in Communications and Creative Writing.
May 15, 2023
JCU Welcomes Professor Tamara Mchedlidze for the Digital Humanities in Practice Lecture Series
April 17, 2023
JCU welcomed Professor Tamara Mchedlidze of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University for a talk on “European Values Maps Visualization of Large Opinion Spaces” on March 30, 2023.
April 17, 2023
Professor Bogdan Popescu on Digital Humanities, Class Language, and Brexit
March 29, 2023
The Department of English Language and Literature, and the Department of Mathematics, Natural, and Applied Sciences welcomed JCU Political Science Professor Bogdan Popescu for a talk called “God save the Queen's English: economic origins of class language and Brexit,” on March 14, 2023.
March 29, 2023
Digital Humanities and Corpus Linguistics: JCU Welcomes Fabio Ciambella
March 13, 2023
On February 21, 2023, the JCU Department of English Language and Literature, and the Department of Mathematics, Natural, and Applied Sciences welcomed Dr. Fabio Ciambella for a talk on “Corpus Linguistics.”
March 13, 2023
Confronting Adversity Head On: Queer Alliance President Temashengu Litchfield-Tshabalala
March 10, 2023
Meet JCU student Temashengu Litchfield-Tshabalala, a Student Ambassador and President of the Queer Alliance.
March 10, 2023
JCU Announces “Digital Humanities in Practice” Talk Series
February 17, 2023
JCU is pleased to announce the launch of “DH@JCU2023 - Digital Humanities in Practice.” Digital Humanities in Practice is a series of talks with digital humanists who will present their projects to the JCU community.
February 17, 2023
JCU to Welcome Susan Bradley Smith as Summer 2023 Writer in Residence
February 6, 2023
John Cabot University is pleased to announce that Australian Poet Susan Bradley Smith will be the Summer 2023 Writer in Residence for the JCU Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
February 6, 2023
John Cabot University Hosts Special Event on Pasolini’s Centenary
October 17, 2022
JCU presented event Spazio Pasolini, in commemoration of Italian intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini. Professor David Castronuovo and Professor Nefeli Misuraca hosted a panel on Pasolini’s film Medea (1969).
October 17, 2022
The Power of Writing: Visiting Student Reagan Davison
October 7, 2022
Reagan Davison, a senior at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, studied abroad at JCU in Summer 2022. Her book, If a Thousand Lovers Spoke at Once (2022), contains various poems about her journey to achieve self-love despite her tribulations.
October 7, 2022
Translation Talks: JCU Welcomes Renowned Author and Translator Claudia Durastanti
September 28, 2022
John Cabot University presented “Translation Talks” featuring Italian-American author and translator Claudia Durastanti on September 12, 2022. The event is the first installment of an ongoing series focusing on translation. English professor Alessandra Grego introduced Durastanti, and Professor Berenice Cocciolillo moderated the discussion.
September 28, 2022
The Power of Doubt: English Professor Jonathan Jones
July 13, 2022
Originally from Stoke on Trent, England, Professor Jonathan Jones has been teaching at JCU since 2014. Professor Jones holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Sapienza University in Rome.
July 13, 2022
John Cabot University Welcomes Author Charmaine Wilkerson
June 1, 2022
On May 26, the JCU Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation welcomed New York Times best-selling author, Charmaine Wilkerson, for a reading of her first novel, Black Cake (Ballantine Books, 2022).
June 1, 2022
