American Public Media's wildly successful nationally syndicated comedy and music variety show Wits is produced by alumna Larissa Anderson, who turned to her alma mater to create an exclusive internship program.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
What We're Reading: Andrew Scheil
Associate Professor Andrew Scheil is working on a book about images of Babylon from ancient to contemporary times. Scheil's current reading encompasses that same breadth: from Aeschylus to Neil Gaiman, Beowulf to A Princess of Mars.
Friday, November 22, 2013
English Students Rise to Challenges
Son of a Seattle longshoreman, Sam Anderson will be the first in his family to earn a bachelor's degree. Alysha Bohanon has been dealing with chronic pain for six years. Both are students recognized by the Beverly Atkinson Scholarship for Outstanding Non-Traditional English Majors. This year's English fundraising efforts are focusing on four important funds, one each for the undergraduate, MFA, and PhD programs, as well as the literary magazine produced by our graduate students, dislocate. We profile the funds over the next two issues of e-Quarterly.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
New Pages
'Tis the season for a book, an armchair, and a place by the radiator. Looking for some recommended reading? Check out this annotated list of new publications from English faculty, alumni, and even students, including a blizzard of poetry and a couple intriguingly open-ended explorations from retired faculty.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Noland Fellowship Grants "Invaluable Time" to Discover
After a long and successful career in advertising, Richard F. Noland decided to give the Department of English a new graduate fellowship fund. Why? As wife Jane describes, "Without knowledge of the themes and allusions of literature, Dick felt we would lose our commonality."
Sophie Liu: A Story Like No Other
A doctoral candidate who put her studies aside in the 1980s to become a lauded Minnesota theater performer and activist died in 2013--but not before completing the short story collection that would earn her, at long last, her PhD.
Elaine Auyoung: Worlds Beyond the Page
New Assistant Professor Elaine Auyoung submits to our 5 X Friday series of questions, revealing her fascination with 19th-century novels (aka "loose baggy monsters") and eucalyptus trees.
What We're Reading: Patricia Hampl
From Alice Munro to cooking magazines: Regents Professor Patricia Hampl describes her recent reading adventures.
New Pages
Feeling nostalgic for fall required reading? Dig into this list of new publications from English faculty, alumni, and even students--including a novel about a mermaid (by Amy Shearn), a short story about a Civil War submarine (by Ethan Rutherford), a memoir of a premature birth (by Kate Hopper), and a study of alliterative romances of the mid-fourteenth century (by Alex Mueller).
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