Tara Wallace attends The School for Scandal

The English Department welcomes Ariel Sabar, author of the prize-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past, for a reading Tuesday night, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom. A Washingtonian, Sabar is a seasoned journalist. He covered the 2008 presidential campaigns for The Christian Science Monitor, and…

English major and creative writing minor Gowri Koneswaran (class of 1997) writes: I’ve been thinking about the folks in the English department a lot lately! For the past four years, I’ve been working down the street at The Humane Society of the United States. For some of my non-creative writing, check out this article I…

Definitions of “dog days” differ from source to source. In common parlance, “dog days” refers to the sultry days of late summer, when the dog star, Sirius, rises along with the sun. The online etymology dictionary notes that in Europe, the period between July 3 and August 11 traditionally has been thought of as “the…

“What Does Asian American literature have to say about the issues raised by the recent discussion of Amy Chua’s book?” — This blog post is the second in a series by Prof. Patricia Chu. Read the first post here. Part Two:  Generational Confusion—Tiger Sisterhood by Patricia Chu So mothers and daughters in Asian American lit…

Carrie Cummings is a student in Professor McAleavey’s Intermediate Poetry 2, 107W, class. Mother’s Arrival in Omaha, 1985 He peeled her off the canvas of a Klimt he saw in Paris,wrapped her up in brown paper– her red tendrils leaked from the edges –and shipped her home to meet his mother(who, upon her arrival, said,“the…

Associate Professor of English Margaret Soltan is the author of University Diaries. An irreverent take on contemporary academic life, this popular blog has discussed issues both serious and light: university funding priorities, the detrimental effects of sports mania on academic missions, diploma mills, institutional scandals, sloppy writing, the foibles of poets and publishers, aesthetics, literary…