Graduate Program in English: Rising Prestige
We won’t be happy until we’re numero uno … but in the meantime, we will take this eight place jump over the last ranking, thank you very much.
We won’t be happy until we’re numero uno … but in the meantime, we will take this eight place jump over the last ranking, thank you very much.
Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…
We asked the class of 2007 to let us know what career paths they were following upon graduating from our program. Their responses illustrate well the flexibility a major in English gives when choosing a profession. We wish each one of our alumni good luck on their diverse endeavors. I will be reading screenplays and…
The application form for “Screenwriting” and “Fiction” has been slightly revised and can be accessed here. Copies are also available in Rome Hall 760. Share on FacebookTweet
(but we all know where a degree in English lit actually leads) [thanks, Beth Lattin!] Share on FacebookTweet
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…
Check this out. Don’t miss the streaming video, with its Renaissance-y soundtrack. It’s quite excellent. An excerpt from the article: During weekly, three-hour classes, students study with a Folger scholar to learn how early books were made, the role they played in shaping culture, and how the medium of print and its reproduction shape a…