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Christy Desmet is one of ten faculty members recognized as a 2018 Outstanding Professor by the Student Government Association (SGA). Honorees are chosen from student nominations, and Christy was nominated by graduate student Robby Nadler.

Rebecca Ross, who earned her English degree at UGA in 2012, has published a young adult fantasy novel entitled The Queen's Rising. Avid Bookshop on Prince Avenue will be hosting a book launch party on Friday, February 9th, from 6:00-7:00pm. 

Dr. Ed Pavlic's essay on "Baldwin's Lonely Country" will appear in the Boston Review's special issue entitled Fifty Years Since MLK, available here .

Elizabeth Swails has been awarded the 2018 Bezanson Fellowship for research conducted in the Melville Society Archive at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Elizabeth is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Cody Marrs.

Dr. Jed Rasula's History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2016) has received the MLA's Matei Calinescu Prize, which is given to a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twentieth-century literature and thought.