Rachel Galvin
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Fall 2012
Dr. Galvin is teaching a graduate seminar at The Johns Hopkins University titled "Law of the Cannibal: Trans-American Poetics." Poet Mark McMorris will visit the seminar and give a public reading in Gilman Hall on November 30, 2012.
 
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
Dr. Galvin taught a writing seminar titled "Witnessing War" at Princeton University. Guest speakers included artist Daniel Heyman, poets Elyse Fenton and Roy Scranton, and Swedish diplomat David Asker.
 
Students whose essays written under Dr. Galvin's supervision have been awarded the Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prize:


2010-2011
Joel Newberger '14
"Trauma and ‘You’: The Second-Person in Tolstoy’s ‘Sevastopol in December’”


2011-2012
Eu Na Noh '15
"Representing Trauma and the Erased History of the Holocaust:  The Combination of Realism and Magical Realism in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated"
 
Yessica Martinez '15
"Mastiklo:  Creation of Testimony in The Drowned and the Saved"