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Showing posts with label 2015 Summer. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2015

No Substitute: Clayton Retires

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.

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.

Faculty News

The latest about publications, lectures, and awards from English faculty.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

PhD News

Read news about publications, presentations, and awards from PhD candidates and alumnae/i. And fill us in on your activities!

MFA News

What's going on with you? News about publications, presentations, and awards from MFA candidates and alumnae/i.

BA News

Find out what our BA alumnae/i are accomplishing--and let us know what you're doing!