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‘Joy of Close Reading’ Conference Will Remember Prof. Hope Glidden
“The Joy of Close Reading in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies” is the name of a conference that will be held Friday, April 27, in memory of Professor Hope Glidden, a distinguished scholar of early modern French literature and member…
English Language Institute Seeking Volunteers to Host Students
The English Language Institute (http://eli.syr.edu) is seeking volunteers to invite international students to share a meal in their homes. The students, hosted by University College, are studying at Syracuse University now through fall 2018. The students have 21 hours of…
Mike Tirico ’88 Receives Newhouse School’s Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media
Tirico is a host and play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports Group, which he joined in 2016 after a 26-year career with ESPN. Tirico will take over Olympics hosting duties from outgoing host Costas starting with the 2018 games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Syracuse Hosts World Englishes Conference
It is a little-known fact that Braj Kachru, a renowned authority on the English language, spoke only Hindi and his mother tongue, Kashmiri, until he was 16. Nevertheless, his upbringing in a Kashmiri Pundit family, which valued education above almost…
English Professor Wins National Literary Prize
A faculty member of the College of Arts and Sciences has received one of the nation’s largest prizes for fiction writing. Dana Spiotta, an associate professor of English who teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, is the winner…
French Professor Hope H. Glidden Mourned by Colleagues
Hope H. Glidden, professor of French and francophone studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Sunday, Sept. 17. She was born in New York City on Feb. 22, 1945. She…
Syracuse to Host International ‘World English’ Conference June 30-July 2
More than 200 presenters from six continents will converge at Syracuse University for the 22nd annual conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), June 30-July 2. Titled “Local and Global Contexts of World Englishes,” the conference will present…
English Department Establishes Memorial Fellowship
Joseph Hughes liked big words—so much so that his brother often consulted a dictionary while talking to him. “Joe was a bright man with a promising future,” he told the Daily Orange shortly after Hughes’ untimely death at age 32….
English Department to Host Undergraduate Open House Nov. 2
Students interested in majoring in English and Textual Studies (ETS) are invited to an open house in the Department of English. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 4:30-6:30…
‘Share of Voice’ Project Provides Glimpse Behind the Curtain of Social Media Data in Election Coverage
Newhouse School assistant professor Jennifer Grygiel, working in collaboration with the School of Information Studies, is the lead on a new project that examines the use of social media data in the coverage of the 2016 presidential election, particularly the…