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English professor explores poetic expressions of Japanese-American internment
Japanese Internment--Library of Congress A photograph of the Manzanar Relocation Center, located in California, from the perspective of a tower. Courtesy of The Library of Congress Print and Photographs Division

English professor explores poetic expressions of Japanese-American internment

Josephine Park, professor of English and interim director of the Asian American Studies Program, on the poetry that originated in Japanese-American internment camps, and poetry by incarcerated populations.
A product of the 1980s: Q&A with English professor Dagmawi Woubshet
Penn English Professor Dagmawi Woubshet

Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English, new to Penn this year. 

A product of the 1980s: Q&A with English professor Dagmawi Woubshet

English professor Dagmawi Woubshet describes himself an “African-Americanist” in his literary pursuits. An immigrant from Ethiopia, he focuses on the 1980s in his research and his courses. 
Q&A with Barbie Zelizer
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Q&A with Barbie Zelizer

Members of the media are unable to do their jobs due to creeping authoritarianism or totalitarian rule. The Center for Media at Risk hopes to bring together scholars and journalists to strategize about what can be done to resist it.

Jacquie Posey