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Encountering New Worlds of Adoption
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News

  • (11/07) Lucy Fischer has been awarded the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Service Award. SCMS has over 2000 members; it is the largest society of academic film scholars in the world.

    Through her scholarship and writing, Lucy has helped to shape the field of cinema studies.   She has a long record of service to a variety of journals and professional organizations.   She was President of SCMS (then called Society for Cinema Studies) from 2001-2003.  The award is a great honor and recognizes a truly distinguished career.

  • Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, has recently been awarded a grant of $1,060,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom for his research project, “Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire.”. (Read more...)
  • Lucy Fischer is honored as Distinguished Professor. (Read more...)
  • Congratulations to Sandy Russo who was awarded the 2007 Chancellor's Award for Staff Excellence in Services to the University.

  • Professor Phil Smith has been awarded a 2007 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Read more...

  • Professor Jean Carr and Professor Steve Carr, who along with their co-author, Lucille Schultz, have won the 2006 Shaughnessy Award for their book, Archives of Instruction:  Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States.    There is no higher book award in their field.  Read more...

  • Stephanie Lord, one of our MFA students, was awarded the prestigious 2006 Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships. The award was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Stephanie will receive the first installment of the fellowship's $30,000 prize money at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills November 16, 2006. Stephanie's script is titled "Palau Rain." It was selected from 4,899 scripts submitted for this year's competition. For further information please visit: http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2006/06.10.26a.html

events

Please check the English Department's Events Calendar for up-to-date information.

Past conferences

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Encountering New Worlds of Adoption

October 11-14, 2007
University of Pittsburgh English Department

The Virtues of Fidelity: Film Adaption as Literary Truth Event/Conference

Friday, March 23, 2007
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

African Novels and the Politics of Form Conference

October 26-28, 2006
University of Pittsburgh English Department

Comparative Postcolonialities

October 27–29, 2005
“Comparative Postcolonialities” examined how postcolonial scholarship can move beyond the political pessimism that haunts both the discipline and our present political moment.

A symposium on "Revisionist Classical Rhetorics" "Ralph Ellison: The Next Fifty Years," and the "James Snead Memorial Conference."

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