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New METS website honored with award
Following its recent website redesign, the Middle English Text Series has won the 2025 Education Standard of Excellence Award from the American Web marking Association.
The updated website is the first major overhaul since METS began in 1990, and added features including enhanced search, reader view, TEI-XML and Legacy HTML formats and more. The redesign upholds the project's goal of providing authoritative and accessible editions of the widest possible range of literary production from the Insular Middle Ages to the widest possible readership.
PLUTZIK READING SERIES
Series continues with acclaimed author
The 63rd season of the Plutzik Reading Series will continue on Tuesday, November 4 with acclaimed author Sigrid Nunez. Nunez is the author of nine novels, including The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award. Click the image for event info.
BLAKE WEEK
Events run Oct. 20-24
Best-selling author Tilar Mazzeo cracks the code on a central principle of understanding comic books and graphic novels—the gap or the gutter—and how it can help make you a better storyteller and reader. Her lecture, "Writing the Gap" is set for 5pm on Oct. 22 in Humanities D.
INSPIRATION PROJECT
Celebrating 15 years of community & creativity
The Inspiration Project, which began in 2010, will host its end-of-the-semester reading on Nov 5 at 6pm in Hawkins-Carlson. We will also mark the 15-year anniversary with a catered reception at 7pm in Welles-Brown.
In the News
126internships and research projects
In the last two years, undergraduates have completed 126 English Department honors theses, local and national internships, and independent research projects.
