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In the Fall Semester of 2006 the
English Department, thanks to the hard work of Penn Szittya, Barbara
Feinman Todd, David Gewanter, Kathy Temple, and Maureen Corrigana, has received a $500,000
endowment supporting an initiative to develop a Cultural Journalism
track within the Journalism program. This initiative builds upon the
presence in the English Department of Maureen Corrigan, NPR's
distinguished reviewer on Fresh Air, author of the critically
acclaimed Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading, as well as numerous book
reviews and articles in The Washington
Post, Newsday, and The Nation.
Her reviews and essays have also appeared in The Village Voice, The
New York Times, The New York Observer and The Philadelphia
Inquirer. A co-editor and Contributor to the two volume Mystery
and Suspense Writers, (Scribners) she won the coveted Edgar Award in
1999.
During her seventeen years at Georgetown Maureen Corrigan has in
addition been one of the Department’s most accomplished teachers.
Thanks to this endowment from the Gallagher Family Fund, Maureen
Corrigan will become Georgetown's Critic-in-Residence, and with the help
of Barbara Feinman Todd, our Coordinator of Journalism, will lead the
development of new courses in cultural journalism, including a course
on "Public Intellectuals," together with affiliated lectures and
in-class appearances by prominent intellectuals and cultural journalists
from Washington and other areas. This initiative will also serve to
complement some of the other initiatives that have come out of the
Department in recent years, such as the Humanities Initiative and the
Lannan Programs.
Maureen Corrigan, in
her new role as the leader of the Cultural Journalism track, has already
announced an initial conference sponsored by the program celebrating the
40th anniversary of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night: History as a
Novel, the Novel as History as well as the march on the Pentagon of
Vietnam-era 1967 -- with the guest of honor and keynote speaker
Norman Mailer himself. This conference will occur on campus next
October 19. |
