Hope College News
2020 Jun
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Academics NEA Big Read Lakeshore and Little Read Lakeshore Receive NEA and Michigan Humanities Grants for Fall Programming
Recipient of a seventh consecutive grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NEA Big Read Lakeshore organized by Hope College will journey back in time this fall from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to the South Pacific for the 200 th anniversary of the real-life sea story that inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”
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Academics Ernest Cole of English Faculty Receives Award for Scholarly Article
Dr. Ernest Cole of the Hope College English faculty has been honored by the African Literature Association as author of the best article in African literary studies published in a major peer-reviewed journal in 2019.
2020 Apr
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Academics NEA Big Read Lakeshore to Present Virtual Author Event with Julia Alvarez on May 6
Author Julia Alvarez, whose book “In the Time of the Butterflies” was featured during the 2019 NEA Big Read Lakeshore this past fall, will return to West Michigan virtually through a live presentation and Q&A on Zoom on Wednesday, May 6, at 11 a.m.
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Academics Poetry Journal Highlights the Poetry and Career of Jack Ridl
The Spring 2020 issue of the Innisfree Poetry Journal is highlighting the poetry and career of Jack Ridl, professor emeritus of English at Hope College.