Sana Krasikov Reading Thursday is Last JLL Event of 2011
Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz. |
Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz. |
Professor Chris Sten proudly discusses his Melville anthology “Whole Oceans Away” Melville and the Pacific, which was released in the fall of 2007. In 2003 at a Melville Conference in Maui, HI, (what a great benefit of studying Melville!) Prof. Sten and two other editors began the project of soliciting and compiling a variety of…
Annual Report for 2008-09 Submitted by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Director Affiliated Faculty Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor and Chair of English Leah Chang, Assistant Professor of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Holly Dugan, Assistant Professor of English Gil Harris, Professor of English Jonathan Hsy, Assistant Professor of English Jehangir Y. Malegam, Assistant Professor of…
Our class of M.A. students. As good-looking as they are brainy. Last week, the English department celebrated the achievements of our graduates with a Ph.D. hooding ceremony, a reception for MA and PhD students, a party for graduating seniors, and, of course, the Columbian College Celebration and Commencement. This year, 12 students earned Departmental Honors…
Many of this blog’s readers will have heard about the Browne Report recently released in the UK. The report by Lord Browne reviews Britain’s higher education system and proposes sweeping changes in the ways that students’ educations are financed. If adopted–and there is wide agreement that it will be–the Browne Report will make higher education…
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…
I recently invited Vice President of Research Leo Chalupa to an English Department faculty meeting. His reaction surprised me: instead of averring that he was far too busy investing money in science policy and under-researched diseases (worthy causes, but not ones that especially attract humanist researchers to the table), he announced he’d be delighted to…