Noreen Masud, author portrait
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Noreen Masud

Dr Noreen Masud is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. In 2018 Masud finished an AHRC-funded DPhil at the University of Oxford, on the ways in which the poet and novelist Stevie Smith is “aphoristic.” She has been featured on Radio 3’s “Free Thinking” and presented an episode of “Sunday Feature.” Her book Hard Language: Stevie Smith and the Aphorism was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.
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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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