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Passionate about reading, writing, & culture since 1919.
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Students from all over the U.S. attended this summer's Writing & Culture pre-college program. Our largest group yet spent a month working with a number of department faculty to explore effective storytelling.
The program will also be offered in 2026. Details here: www.cmu.edu/pre-college/...
Read all about the latest happenings in our department and beyond in the new edition of the Alumni Newsletter! mailchi.mp/465ad7ea1dae...
31.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Keep your brain busy over the summer with this lecture series, available in-person or over Zoom! Professor @chrisvvarren.bsky.social speaks on July 30.
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A new hub for literature! The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be both in Pittsburgh (and the Rust Belt) and of the wider world; a means of introducing the region’s vibrant literary community into national conversations as well as bringing those conversations here.
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Can digitization preserve the past, or does it merely reinvent it? My latest article traces the metadata anomalies and hidden labor that haunt one digital surrogate: Thomas May’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra. Check it out here!
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In this month's Dietrich College Faculty Spotlight, get to know Camille Rankine, a writer and assistant professor in our department’s Creative Writing Program.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
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“It’s been so fun to help them realize that research doesn’t have to be scary — and that we’re here to help them every step of the way.”
Read about how CMU Libraries staff supports the First-Year Writing Program.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
“What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?”
In a new piece for Literary Hub, Ed Simon examines “the dark magic of words.”
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The first doctoral program of its kind, our new Ph.D. in Computational Cultural Studies trains students to combine historical, theoretical, and cultural scholarship with computational methodologies.
To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies
Christopher Warren has been appointed the next head of the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, effective Aug. 1.
Warren is an expert in 16th and 17th century literature and culture, including figures such as Shakespeare and Milton.
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After a fruitful decade of leadership, Dr. Andreea Ritivoi will pass the baton to Dr. Christopher Warren, who begins his term as English Department Head on August 1. Read more about Warren and his work here: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
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Our new digital humanities article, which I’ve authored alongside my colleagues across @cmuenglish.bsky.social and @cmu.edu's Statistics & Data Science Dept, is out!
What happens when students offload writing about data to AI?
Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/2693...
The Department of English community gathered on Saturday, May 10 for the 2025 Commencement of both undergraduate and graduate students. Read all about the ceremony here: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...
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A group of CMU undergraduates immersed themselves in the nation's capital, connecting with professionals and gaining real-world insights into careers in the humanities.
Read about the inaugural Humanities Trek, in a story written by our students!
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
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Congratulations to senior Alison Zheng, whose project "Unraveling the Decline of Pittsburgh's Chinatown in a Post-Steel Society," the subject of an independent study with Professor Jeffrey Williams, has been selected by judges at Meeting of the Minds to receive a Dietrich Humanities Prize.
05.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don't miss your chance to hear from @camillerankine.bsky.social tonight! #poetrycommunity #poetry
01.05.2025 18:05 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Keep your brain busy over the summer with this lecture series, available in-person or over Zoom! Professor @chrisvvarren.bsky.social speaks on July 30.
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Pictured, left to right: Maria Ferrato, Ph.D. Student in Rhetoric, Dr. Jessica Restaino, Dr. James Wynn, Professor and Program Head, Rhetoric
Distinguished scholar Dr. Jessica Restaino (Montclair State University) gave the talk “'Every Method's a Trap' (and I Feel Fine): The Rhetorical Magic of Becoming a New Subject" at the spring Rhetoric Colloquium.
Read the full story here: www.facebook.com/share/p/16V8...
Are you a graduate of one of our programs? We’d love to hear what you’ve been up to! Use the form below to share any recent professional successes for possible inclusion in an upcoming Alumni Newsletter.
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Asst. Professor Dr. Nupoor Ranade presented at the recent Write the Docs Pittsburgh meetup. "Making AI Visible in Technical Communication" addressed one of today's most timely conversations: how technical communicators can navigate the evolving GenAI landscape.
Watch here: youtu.be/R7tZAQYwto4?....
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Nicole Tanquary, a Rhetoric Ph.D. candidate, is the recipient of the 2025 CMU Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Read more here:
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
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Eunji Jo, LCS Ph.D. candidate, has received the 2025 Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award, which recognizes outstanding expertise in all areas of curriculum development, including classroom teaching and student mentoring.
Read more here:
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
WOVEN #6 is live! In this issue, students from courses across the Dietrich College GenEd Program pick up the mantle of inquiry to interrogate themes of power and authority, memory and memorialization, cultural critique and interdisciplinary analysis. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/gen...
23.04.2025 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0WOVEN #6 is live! In this issue, students from courses across the Dietrich College GenEd Program pick up the mantle of inquiry to interrogate themes of power and authority, memory and memorialization, cultural critique and interdisciplinary analysis. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/gen...
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The Adamson Awards are presented for excellence in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, and are open to undergraduate students throughout the University community.
This year's ceremony will take place on Weds. 4/23, from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., in Baker Hall 136-A, with featured reader Caryl Phillips.
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📢 Join us for a talk by Dr. Nicole Aljoe (Tufts) about Black Britons' letters & early Black print culture!
📍 Posner Hall 234
📅 Wed, April 23 | 4:30 – 6:30 PM
Congratulations to Writing & Communication Lecturer Barbara George, who has been selected as one of the 2025-2026 Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellows at Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation!
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Join us and CMU Libraries for Week of Will (April 19–27), which includes a dramatic Macbeth reading, rare First Folio viewing, cupcakes, soliloquies, puppets & more!
On Tuesday 4/22, a dramatic reading of Macbeth will take place in Posner Hall.
🗓️ Details: pittsburghshakespeare.org
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With a theme of "The Archive," and consisting of 63 presentations from 70 presenters representing 55 institutions across 13 countries and 24 states, the 5th Bridges and Borders conference was a success!
Read the full recap here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Jpr...
How is AI changing learning? A new story sheds light on this topic, touching on the work of Rhetoric PhD alum Emily DeJeu and Senior Lecturer in Writing & Communication Alan Thomas Kohler. www.cmu.edu/news/stories...
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