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Students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the English Department at Mississippi State University

Starkville, MS
Joined August 2016
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Happy #pubday to DRONE ENLIGHTENMENT: The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare by Peter DeGabriele! upress.virginia.edu/title/58… #readUP
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Anderson named dean of MSU’s Shackouls Honors College bit.ly/3DMMrwE #DiscoverYourAnd @ShackoulsHonors @MSStateEnglish
MSU faculty member wins 2022 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry bit.ly/3fOeUud #DiscoverYourAnd #WeRingTrue #poetry @MSStateEnglish
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MSState English retweeted
Adele is planning to take a hiatus after her Las Vegas residency, intending to get a degree in English literature: “Even though it’s not like I’d go on to get a job from my degree, I wish I had gone to university... That’s my plan for 2025.” latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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Just got the latest copy of @JabberwockRev, which features my story “Downburst” as the winner of the Nancy D. Hargrove Editor’s Prize for Fiction. Since the journal comes out of @MSStateEnglish, I thought it appropriate to wear my most appropriate hat for this photo.
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MSState English retweeted
Welcome to the 22-23 Academic Year! Meet CLA's current President, @Jervette in the first video of the Welcome Back, Meet the Current Executive Committee Series. youtu.be/SOG-bT_W6r8
Join @CLAscholar Tue Sept 27th at 7 pm EDT to celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth2022 & the 100th Anniversary of the Book of American Negro Poetry with An Evening of Black and AfroLatinx Poetry!! #CLAscholars
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"My English degree has prepared me to be the next big shot lawyer, to write a future president’s speech, to be the next Bob Woodward. I could be anything. So don’t tell me to regret it." bit.ly/3fgrhyn
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Academy of American Poets selects Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce for fellowship bit.ly/3AkWurm #DiscoverYourAnd #WeRingTrue @msstate @katieppierce
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“I believed then, as I still do, that having a #humanities education is one of the luckiest things that can happen to a person.... When people say it doesn’t help you get a job, they’re missing the point – it helps you get a life.” bit.ly/3C6e5FY
Celebrating the news that Oxford American has selected for publication Meghan Reed's short story “Where the Animals Sleep at Night”--just one of the amazing stories from her MA thesis-- from over 500 debut-fiction submissions. Way to go, Meg! @meghannereed
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Catherine Pierce (Mississippi) will establish The Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival, a day-long celebration of poetry that will serve as the culmination of a statewide poetry-writing initiative. Pierce will collaborate with the Mississippi Center for the Book.
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MSU Faculty Member Publishes Sole Book on Life and Work of Acclaimed Author Robert Morgan bit.ly/3aZtiO1 #DiscoverYourAnd #WeRingTrue
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MSState English retweeted
🎥 Dr. Dhanashree Thorat, Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University, on the afterlives of slavery & colonialism in Google's undersea fiber-optic cable line named "Equiano" 📝 Nomination by ACH (@achdotorg) #AsianDiversityInDH CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
In this episode of Vision, we host Abigail Voller and discuss her role as director of the new Humanities Camp program and how she wants it to grow in the future @MSStateEnglish youtu.be/OdtoR4nfInw
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Retired English Faculty Member Strengthened University Writing Levels, Leaves Lasting Impact at MSU bit.ly/3n7QEDq #DiscoverYourAnd #WeRingTrue
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On Monday, Humanity Camp Scholars attended classes and toured the library. Classes focused on topics like Ukraine and Russia, powerful pictures of people, and critical thinking and the humanities #msstatehumanitiescamp #MSUHC2022 #msstateHC2022 #HC2022 #DawgsHC
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Mississippi State Associate Professor of English Jervette R. Ward is the new president of a national language association devoted to serving the academic, scholarly and professional interests of African American collegiate scholars. msstate.edu/newsroom/article…
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