Please stop by the English Department office (Rome Hall 760) for tea, cookies, and sherry.
If you are a current student, you are welcome to stop by for tea and cookies. We are legally obligated to slap your hand HARD if you reach for the sherry.
These days, I can barely keep up with the accolades being garnered by English Department faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Yesterday, we got the great good news that Prof. Judith Plotz is a winner of this year’s George Washington Award, one of the highest honors the University confers. I’ll blog more about Prof. Plotz, who…
Check out “Set in Stone: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Memory” in this week’s New Yorker (October 13 2008). A review of Looking for Lincoln, the essay is also a meditation upon “the first [president] with a psychology, a delicate mental makeup that suggested itself to anyone who saw his picture in a newspaper,…
Department alumnus Keith Feldman writes: I’m pleased to report that I write you from my new office at UC Berkeley, where I’ve just begun a tenure track position in comparative ethnic studies. As you might imagine, I’m thrilled—and deeply humbled—by the opportunity to work in such a generative atmosphere. I was hired in part because…
Last December, the English Department gave out 200 copies of Kalooki Nights, the challenging, sprawling, inspired, and ambitious 2006 novel by English writer Howard Jacobson, this year’s British Council UK Writer in Residence. Jacobson is a novelist, broadcaster, and journalist; London’s Independent, which publishes his weekly column, calls him an “acerbic cultural critic … known…
Jane Shore recommended this poem by W. D. Snodgrass, written in 1959. April Inventory The green catalpa tree has turnedAll white; the cherry blossoms once more.In one whole year I haven’t learnedA blessed thing they pay you for.The blossoms snow down in my hair;The trees and I will soon be bare. The trees have more…
Photo Credit: “Eleanora Reading” (1997). Fernando Scianna, Milan, Italy We remain very excited about our newest faculty member, Professor Daniel DeWispelare, who is currently teaching Romanticism and Critical Methodologies. For Spring 2013, he has designed a brand new Dean’s Seminar, “Literacy and Literature.” Spread the word to those who are eligible–first-year CCAS students seeking a…
