Jeff Sharlet

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Academic Appointments

  • Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing

  • Director of Creative Writing

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Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author or editor of seven books. His most recent book, combining image and text, is This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers. He is the winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Molly Ivins Prize and the Outspoken Award, among others. 

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Jeffrey.Sharlet@dartmouth.edu
Sanborn, Room 013
HB 6032

Department(s)

English and Creative Writing

Education

B.A. Hampshire College

Selected Publications

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Works In Progress

  • Undone: An Incomplete History of Unfinished Stories, under contract with W.W. Norton

  • The Undertow, a collection of essays, under contract with W.W. Norton

  • "North America," a book of words and pictures

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    Library of Congress Drops ‘Illegal Aliens’ Term (Smithsonian)

    Posted on March 30, 2016 by Office of Communications

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    Smithsonian

    “In 2014, the Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers (CoFIRED), a group dedicated to advancing the rights of undocumented students, first petitioned the Library of Congress to get rid of the term ‘illegal alien’ in its cataloging system in favor of the term ‘undocumented immigrant,’ ” writes Smithsonian.com in a story about how Dartmouth students persuaded the library to drop the use of the term.

    “Since a person cannot technically be illegal, critics argue the term should be dropped, even when immigrants’ actions are legally unsanctioned. The term is increasingly characterized as a racial slur, especially when it is used to dehumanize individual people,” Smithsonian.com writes.

    Read the full story, published 3/29/16 by Smithsonian.com.

    The story was picked up by a number of media, including The Washington Times, the Daily Journal, the Valley News, and WMUR.

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