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Journalism and Trauma: A Professor’s Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Communication Arts Cheryl Hatch was a featured speaker at the 18th Annual Communication Week April 8-12 at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. An international photojournalist, Professor Hatch presented images from her decades covering conflict in the Middle East and Africa for a lecture, “Journalism and Trauma: A War

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Two Student Writers to Attend Chautauqua Festival

Cale Davis ’13 and Kate Leary ’13 are winners of Allegheny’s Chautauqua Writers’ Festival Scholarship for 2013. Cale and Kate will travel to the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York to attend workshops, lectures, readings and panel discussions. This year’s festival, held on June 13-16, features fiction writers Anthony Doer and Ann Pancake, poets Stephen

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Writing About the Body in Middle Ages, Renaissance

Ava Carvour ’13, Rachel Moore ’13, and Desiree Niccoli ’14 had papers accepted for the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Conference held on April 19 at the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The conference’s interdisciplinary approach combined literary, historical, and art research from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. This year’s theme,

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Women in Combat: Photojournalism from Afghanistan

When Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women in combat, Visiting Assistant Professor Cheryl Hatch’s recent photographs of women soldiers in Afghanistan were distributed worldwide. Hatch embedded with the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry Regiment 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in southern Kandahar Province. Throughout her career, she has focused on women in war zones: civilians

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