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."
Thursday, September 19, 2013
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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