"Every week in 2018, Ivy Schweitzer and her team of students at Dartmouth College select several poems and letters written by Emily Dickinson in 1862, a year of creativity “at the White Heat,” and then frame them with a summary of the news of the time, literary culture, biographical events in the Dickinson circle, a brief survey of more recent critical responses and a personal reflection. This episode explores the “White Heat” blog, where the goal is to create immersive contexts in which to...
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Professor Peter Orner is the author of two novels published by Little, Brown: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, (2006) and Love and Shame and Love, (2010), and two story collections also published...
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Six undergraduate students presented formal papers at the 39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum at Keene State College in Keene NH on Friday, April 13 and Saturday April 14.
All six originally wrote their papers for courses taught by Professor Thomas H. Luxon: English 15: Shakespeare, and Writing 5: Love and Friendship from Plato to Hemingway. They submitted their essays to a conference selection panel and they were...
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From Dartmouth News, March 8, 2018
https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/03/learning-write-jane-austen
Ever wondered what it would be like to learn to write from one of English literature’s greatest novelists?
This winter, the 16 students in the first-year seminar “...
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From Dartmouth News (https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/12/hands-english-class-explores-religion-and-science)
by Hannah Silverstein
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is an imposing, church-like structure in downtown St. Johnsbury, Vt., that houses the eclectic collection of 19th-century industrialist Franklin...
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From: The Dartmouth (http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/09/jake-maguire-telling-story-f...)
Bridging the Vista: 'Telling Stories for Social Change'
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Nirvana Tanoukhi’s research and teaching focus on questions of scale, form, and critical thinking in 20th and 21st century world literature, with a focus on global Anglophone literature, the novel, literary and narrative theory, and aesthetics. In her current writing and pedagogy she asks: How does a work of literature like a novel, especially one from or about a "distant" place, establish a sense of context to ground an interpretation? On what "scale" – geographic, social, linguistic, or...
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Article posted from: http://www.iowacityofliterature.org/alexander-chee-named-2017-paul-engle-prize-winner/
Alexander Chee has been named the sixth recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization.
The prize, established in 2011, honors an...
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May 31, 2017
Hannah SilversteinWhat began as an ordinary assignment for an English class became an opportunity for Kendall Christensen ’19 to showcase her research on a bigger stage.
Christensen, who plans a major in English with a concentration in creative writing, had the chance to present her paper—originally written for Professor...
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William W. Cook died on Monday, May 15, 2017 in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was the Israel Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres Emeritus at Dartmouth College, where he also served as chair of the Departments of English and African and African American Studies.
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He was born the son of the Reverend Cleve Cook and Frances Cook in Trenton, New Jersey, on August 4, 1933. Bill graduated at the head of his high school class in Trenton and was the...