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Graduate student Hebah Uddin published a YA novel

The doctoral student in Pitt’s Department of English is better known to young readers as Karuna Riazi.

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These Pitt English classes used a video game to teach interactive fiction

Night School Studio donated copies of its supernatural thriller ‘Oxenfree’ to Amanda Tien's writing courses.

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Michael Meyer named Visiting Scholar at Oxford's Centre for Life-Writing

While in residence, Meyer is finishing research on a book recounting a scandalous 1877 trial in London.

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Ryan McDermott received $300K from the National Endowment for the Humanities

The funding will support the associate professor of English's project on the origins of modernity.

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How the Act of Speculating Became a Financial Mania

Gayle Rogers, professor in and chair of Pitt's Department of English and author of the forthcoming book, “Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI,” writes about financial speculation through the ages, from tulips and scrips to bitcoin and meme stocks.
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The Thrill of Being Published

In addition to learning the foundations of journalism, students in Brian Broome’s nonfiction course recently tried their hand at the art of the op-ed for the Pittsburgh Current.
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Record 15 from Pitt earn Fulbright Scholarships

The 15 Pitt recipients of the prestigious U.S. Fulbright Scholarship for 2020 are the most ever in the University of Pittsburgh’s history. For the 10th time in 11 years, Pitt was also named a top producing institution of Fulbright students.

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Exploring the rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr.

Why does the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” still speak to us today? Third-year PhD student and composition instructor Lissette Escariz Ferrá helps her students understand.

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Remembering Joanne Rogers

Students, faculty and staff join people around Pittsburgh and across the country today in remembering beloved Pittsburgher Joanne Rogers, longtime spouse of the late Mister Rogers. She died Jan. 14 at 92.
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Undergraduate’s Literary Interests Earn Her Marshall Scholarship

Madeline Fox, a senior studying literature, classical civilization and philosophy, has been named a Marshall Scholar. The prestigious program supports postgraduate study at any university in the United Kingdom.