News Archives:  Academic Year 2009-2010

• Commencement 2010:  Congratulations to all our Graduates!  View photos >
   
• Congratulations to the Winners of the 2010 Writing Prizes! Chaeyeong Yoo won The Academy of American Poets Prize for her work "38th Parallel" and other poems. Olga Rukovets and Miguel Miro-Quesada received honorable mentions for their respective works “Splitting the Belly Open” and other poems and “Shine” and other poems. Erik Doughty won The Morse Hamilton Fiction 1st Prize for his work "That's How We Do." Kristen Surya won The Morse Hamilton Fiction 2nd Prize for her work "The Yellow Scooter." All five students participated in a reading of their works on April 20th.
   
• Tufts Mourns the Loss of Martin Green
  The English Department is saddened by the death of Emeritus Professor Martin Green. Read more >
  
  All are welcome to attend services this Friday, April 23rd, 9:30AM: George L. Doherty Funeral Service
  855 Broadway, Powder House Square
  Somerville, MA 02144
   
• Several English graduate students have received awards from the Graduate School this year. Congratulations to Kerri Bowen, who received an award for Outstanding Academic Performance, Emily King, who received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, and Chiyo Crawford who received a Graduate Student Research Award.
   
• Creative Writing Lecturer Marcie Hershman was a featured writer at the symposium, "Imagination and Catastrophe: Art and the Aftermath of Genocide," sponsored by the Center for Jewish History, New York City. She read from her novel Tales of the Master Race and spoke on a panel along with filmmaker Atom Egoyan, poet Peter Balakian, critic R. Clifton Spargo, and genocide scholar Donna-Lee Frieze. Hershman's essay: "Memoir: It's about Time" appears in the recently published teaching anthology, Now, Write! Nonfiction, edited by Sherry Ellis, (Tarcher /Penguin). Her essay "No Burden to Bear" originally published in the New York Times Magazine, came out earlier in the anthology, Creative Nonfiction, (Cengage). Her review of Ursula Mahlendorf's The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood appears in the March/April issue of The Women's Review of Books.
   
• Lecturer and Tufts graduate Grace Talusan (J94) had her essay "Blinded" included in "Best American Medical Writing 2009". Read her work online in Tufts Magazine, where it was first published.
   
• Creative Writing Lecturer Michael Downing’s memoir "Life with Sudden Death: A Tale of Moral Hazard and Medical Misadventure" was just published. Read his essay, adapted from the book, in the September 30^th "Lives" column in the New York Times Magazine. Click here to read Sudden Death, or Breeze. More information is on his website: MichaelDowningBooks.com.

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