Our interviews with retiring professors Gordon Hirsch and Charles Sugnet
ran in the March e-Quarterly; now it's Tom Clayton's turn. The Regents Professor newly named "Emeritus" looks back on more than a half century of classroom adventure.
Monday, June 1, 2015
A Memory Is a Process: Sprengnether on Her New Memoir
When Regents Professor Madelon Sprengnether joined the English faculty in 1971, she was a Shakespearean. She soon developed abiding interests in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and her own creative writing. How have those passions sparked off each other? Read on.
New Pages
Memoiristic poetry and poetic memoir. The story of two autistic brothers discovering joy in marathons. Funny fiction. The translated Mediterranean travelogues of an eighteenth-century Arab Muslim. Writing from all over the map in our annotated list of publications by English faculty, students, and alums.
What We're Reading: Clayton, Hirsch, Sugnet
Before our trio of retiring professors could depart campus, we asked them who they were currently reading and recommending. Their idiosyncratic responses include drama, fiction, and philosophy.
News: Report from AWP & More
Photos from the April AWP literary conference in
Minneapolis. Plus former Ivory Tower editor Garrison Keillor meets current
staff, two majors wow President Kaler, and an HR director (and alum) offers
career advice.
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