Amith chakalakkal biography of william hill
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Reimagining the Republic
Contributions: Molly Ball
Molly Ball is a Post-Doctoral Associate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has published on women’s slave narratives, seduction novels, and pedagogy, and her work has appeared in journals such as ESQ and Early AmericanLiterature. She is currently revising a book length project titled “Writing out of Time,” which examines how nineteenth-century populations deemed to have “no future” within the progressing nation both företräda and dispute that temporal status through experiments with forward-moving narrative forms.
Contributions: Nancy Bentley
Nancy Bentley is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include The Ethnography of Manners and Frantic Panoramas: Mass Culture and American Literature, 1870–1920. She coauthored Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2005) and fryst vatten currently writing a book entitled “New Wor
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In the summer of 2013, Duke's Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) will launch a new summer institute to help high school teachers use more historical literature and fiction to enrich English and social studies classes focused on African American history.
The goal of the project, led by Wahneema Lubiano, associate professor and associate chair of the department, is to expand the use of historical fiction, social research and literary criticism in teaching history. Participants will be exposed to books, short stories, films, music and documentaries that have not traditionally been standard high school fare. The project will develop original lessons plans that will be publicly available on the institute's website.
Institute fellows will read novels such as Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills," Black Artemis' "Picture Me Rollin'" andKyle Baker'sgraphic novel titled "Nat Turner," as alternatives to commonly used literature. They will
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I would like to begin by thanking Gene Fisch for his very generous introduction. This award is a great honor and is testament to the many talented students and research fellows who have worked with me over the years. I would also like to acknowledge my mentors, who introduced me to genetics for the first time 35 years ago. I am very grateful to the many friends and collaborators who have debated with me long into the night on the best ways forward at many genetics meetings. The ASHG meetings have always been special to me as I watched the society keep pace with the ever-changing field of genetics both in research and in delivery to the patient. Finally, I would like to thank my family, who have supported me at all points in my career, even when they were not sure where the next steps were taking me!
Over the last 30 years, I have participated in an extraordinary journey from the isolation of fragments of the X chromosome for the diagnosis and carri