As a double major in English and German, Izzy Alexander’s college experience has been truly interdisciplinary. Due to her interest in communicative practices, Alexander’s English concentration is on rhetoric, writing, and linguistics; she added German when she discovered that she would be taking enough classes to earn a major, considering it an opportunity to contrast […]
In 1913, W. E. B. Du Bois’s historical pageant The Star of Ethiopia opened at the Twelfth Regiment Armory with a cast of 350 performers. At the dawn of the New Negro (or Harlem) Renaissance, it celebrated African Americans by tracing their history back to highly developed civilizations in Africa. According to English PhD student […]
Marie Balsley Taylor joined the department this year as an assistant professor in early-American and Native American literature. Her research examines the role that Indigenous people, places, and practices played in shaping the 17th century colonial literary genres. Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England, her first book, was published […]
It’s hard to pin down Christopher Moyer (’07). He has written about hackers and doomsday preppers for Vice, interviewed cult leaders for Rolling Stone, and covered artificial intelligence for The Atlantic. Moyer has ghostwritten books on everything from raising chickens to Zen meditation. He’s crafted messaging for international conservation projects. Now he’s the vice president […]
Distinguished Lecturer Erin Smith’s 200-level Public Writing course has always been built around working with nonprofits. In the past, students built online presences for local charities, but after social media became commonplace, she decided to restructure the course. She asked herself what nonprofits really need—money—and decided to shift the course’s structure to focus on crowdfunding. […]
Faculty members Mary Dzon and Urmila Seshagiri have uncovered medieval treasures and unknown Virginia Woolf stories in their archival work. Cornelius Eady and Iliana Rocha are winning national awards and publishing new work that makes us a destination program for poets and creative writers. Tanita Saenkhum has launched a new Teaching English as a Second […]
From Homer’s Iliad to the Old English Beowulf, from Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming adaptation of the Odyssey, the epic is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary genres. So when Oxford University Press invited Associate Professor Anthony Welch to write an introduction to the epic, he welcomed the opportunity […]