Alumna Lilly Rivlin Screens Film about Writer Grace Paley
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Writer and Activist Grace Paley |
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Writer and Activist Grace Paley |
Walking outside today feels like a scene from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The streets are disturbingly empty and the few who do dare to venture outside are so bundled up you cannot even see their faces. All winter wonderland fun has been abandoned for general misery. Instead we are locked up in our dorms, apartments,…
Read all about why this gravestone matters at the website for Professor Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! An excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel musician and instrumentalist, finally has a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Since her passing in 1973, the gravesite of Sister Rosetta had been a barren…
English 3960-10 (36721) Asian American Literature MW 12:45-2 p.m. Course Description: This course complicates received ideas of “America” as a nation of blacks and whites by examining the writing of Americans of Asian descent. Our readings will examine what Asian American and Asian global writers have to say about growing up in Chinatown in…
If you are an alumnus of the English Department and will be attending the Alumni Reunion Weekend, please stop by the English Department on Friday September 26 from 3-5 PM for our open house. We look forward to welcoming you back! Share on FacebookTweet
Jennifer Nguyen is the winner of this year’s Student Poetry Contest Each year, the English department awards a variety of student prizes for achievement in creative writing. This year, senior Jennifer Nguyen is the winner of the Student Poetry Contest for her piece “Candy.” The judges were Profs. Jane Shore, Mary-Sherman Willis, and David McAleavey….
As chair of the department I’m in frequent contact with our alumni, men and women who have gone on to an array of careers that — quite frankly — amaze me in their variety and their ambition. I noticed during my first year as chair, however, a puzzling phenomenon: our current majors and former majors…