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See, Learn and Engage the World With Alumni Global Adventures

Alumni Global Adventures are extraordinary opportunities to learn from Dickinson experts as you explore exciting destinations. Here are the trips we're planning for 2023.

Internationally renowned poet Jan Wagner returns to Dickinson this spring to serve an artistic residency. Photo by Dan Loh.

Acclaimed Poet's Residency at Dickinson Creates 'Incomparable Opportunity' for Student-Translators

Famed German poet Jan Wagner is serving an artistic residency on campus this spring that includes a reading, classroom visits, a panel discussion and a translation contest for students.

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English Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022

Graduating seniors secure jobs at Enterprise Knowledge and McDonogh School and are accepted to graduate school in Scotland.

Through Dickinson's Stellfox program, Natasha Trethewey (poetry), Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner (graphic novels) and the Wu Ming collective will interact with students and present their work in March and April, 2022.

Poetry, Graphic Novels and Provocative Fiction: Meet the 2022 Stellfox Honorees

Natasha Trethewey (poetry), Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner (graphic novels) and the Wu Ming collective, creator of fiction that inspired QAnon's name, are Dickinson's 2022 Stellfox honorees.

Ben Warren '25 (left) and Lucy Walrond '24 are among the students who used stylometric techniques to analyze literature last fall. Photo by Dan Loh.

What Light Through Yonder Computer Breaks?

Students in literature and intro computer-science classes teamed up to digitally analyze classic texts through an innovative digital humanities project.

The 2022 Mansfield Oxford Students

Six Dickinsonians Admitted to Oxford University’s Mansfield Program

Continuing Dickinson’s history of success, every applicant is accepted into the highly selective, yearlong program.

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Working Toward a Sustainable Future

Learn how Dickinson helped Shannon Kobran ’10 forge successful careers in publishing and international development.

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Scott Beaumont ’75 Stays on Brand, After Relaunching Lilly Pulitzer

The former English and economics major combined creativity and strategy to rebuild a legendary name in fashion.

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Student Snapshot: Hadley D’Esopo ’23

Hadley D’Esopo ’23 was looking for a college with a strong sense of community, and that's exactly what she found at Dickinson.

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New Faculty Book Explores How Hollywood Brings Comics to Screens Around the World

From 'The Walking Dead' to 'Wonder Woman,' Greg Steirer's 'The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood' gets to the bottom of a worldwide phenomenon.

Donald Moffat (far right) with daughter Wendy and Neil Weissman, during an on-campus ceremony honoring Wendy.

Scholarship Stories: Professor of English Wendy Moffat

Professor of English Wendy Moffat discusses the inspiration behind the Donald Moffat Scholarship, which she established in memory of her father.

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English Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2021

Graduating English majors are accepted to graduate programs at the University of East Anglia and Georgetown University.

Alan Farfan Canales '23

Student Snapshot: Allan Farfan Canales ’23

Allan Farfan Canales ‘23 has written screenplays and short stories and created a mixtape about his first year at Dickinson.

Portrait of Fabiola Cineas

Podcast: Vox Staff Writer Fabiola Cineas ’12

In this episode of Dickinson's podcast, "The Good," we talk with Fabiola Cineas '12, a reporter covering race for Vox.

Stellfox Award: A Visual History

Dickinson's Stellfox Program Offers Students Virtual Literary Master Classes

Dickinson will preserve the spirit of the annual Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Program through a series of virtual literary master classes for students.

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