Beth Lattin in Forbes

Posted at the request of Keren Veisblatt: At Le Culte, we pride ourselves on our exclusivity and the high quality of the works we publish. This year has been a rebuilding one for us, as many of our founding members have graduated. However, throughout this transition, we are confident this year’s issue will be the…

ENGL 185.10 Lorraine Hansberry and 20th-Century Black Intellectual and Cultural History Lorraine Hansberry is most famous for her perennially popular play Raisin in the Sun, most recently revived (in 2008) by Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, and Audre McDonald, in an ABC television special. But in her brief life (she died at age 35), Hansberry produced…

One day Thomas Mallon looked out his office window in Rome Hall and had a strange sense of déja vu. “I look out into the apartment of one of my characters,” he said. Mallon’s novel Fellow Travelers was set in 1950s DC, at which point the dorm West End was an apartment where he placed…

The English Department had its gala Festivus event yesterday afternoon, and, no, we did not have peppermint martinis. In fact, the image above is there because I neglected to take any photos of the festivities. I was far too busy partaking of the delicious spread provided by my colleagues and laughing over the Department Trivia…

Rajiv Menon writes of the course he took with British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi: My experience with the first British Council in Residence reading course was overwhelmingly positive, and when I learned of the second opportunity to participate in the class, I had no doubt in my mind that I wanted to take…

Please join us on Thursday April 24 for a talk by Kathleen Biddick: “The Political Theology of the Archive: Reflections on a Project” The author of The Shock of Medievalism (Duke 1998) and The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, History, Technology (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), Kathleen Biddick is professor of history at Temple University. The talk…