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How the Great War altered memory and memorialization

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

English professor Bette London explores the evolution and continued resonance of remembrance rituals in post-World War I Britain in a new book.

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Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center

Tue, 27 Sep 2022

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

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Plutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

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A baseball call for the ages: Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith penned an essay for the Library of Congress about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call.

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Rochester’s Curt Smith remembers Vin Scully

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

The author of multiple books on baseball, its storied stadiums and legendary broadcasters, recalls a baseball broadcasting legend.

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James Longenbach ‘made a central and rich place for poetry’ at Rochester

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

The English professor and acclaimed poet devoted his life’s work to studying, teaching, and writing poetry.

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Remembering J. W. Johnson: ‘dynamic’ and devoted English teacher

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

In a University career of more than 45 year, the professor emeritus’s research interests included Restoration biography, the Earl of Rochester, and 18th-century literature.

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Digital justice through data dictionaries

Wed, 08 Jun 2022

A seed grant from the American Council of Learned Societies launches a project that has the River Campus Libraries helping to diversify the digital domain.

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Is this the year you’re going to read Ulysses by James Joyce?

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.

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English professor’s cotranslation of poetry wins PEN American Literary Award

Tue, 01 Mar 2022

Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.

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