The Department of English and Creative Writing Spring 2020 courses will be moving to a remote teaching format. Due to this unexpected change, the department would like to provide further information about how the courses will be taught. There are three different teaching formats for spring term courses: synchronous teaching, asynchronous teaching, and a combination of the two. What this means is that...
[more]Dartmouth News, February 21, 2020
by Hannah Silverstein
The Department of Theater's winter main stage production,...
[more]Dartmouth News, February 18, 2020
On the Thursday morning of winter carnival, eight students from Professor...
[more]The exhibition Deus Ex Homine was designed and organized by students in a Fall 2019 class taught by Professor Christie Harner. The class, titled “God, Darwin, & the Literary Imagination,” focused on themes that emerged from debates about evolution and religion in nineteenth-century British culture: Creation and Design, Selection and Extinction, Heredity and Development, Time and Progress, and Human/Animal. Students drew inspiration from the course material to agree on the theme...
[more]The role of the writer is to write, of course, but it can also include participation in the larger literary community. Professors Vievee Francis and Jeff Sharlet were given the chance to exercise some literary citizenship this year as judges of the 2019 National Book Awards, one of the highest honors in American publishing. Professor...
[more]From Dartmouth News, August 7, 2019
It’s a first for Jeff Sharlet. The associate professor of English and creative writing, National Magazine Award-winning journalist, and author of six books is now an executive producer for a five-part Netflix documentary adaptation of his 2008 nonfiction bestseller, The Family, which will be released for streaming on Aug. 9.
Both The Family...
[more]Six postdoctoral scholars have joined Dartmouth's Society of Fellows, bringing to 15 the number of junior fellows mentored by senior fellows in a close-knit intellectual community that integrates research with classroom experience.
The Department of English & Creative writing will be home to two of the newly appointed junior fellows, James A. Godley and Nicholas Rinehart.
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[more]Assistant Professor Joshua Bennett was one of 16 poets and authors featured in The New York Times', The 1619 Project.
[more]"The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American...
On April 12 and 13th, 2019, four Dartmouth students delivered their work at the 40th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Listening and Learning in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance held at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire.
Professor Thomas Luxon of the Department of English & Creative Writing encouraged these students to submit their papers for presentation at The Medieval and Renaissance Forum as he has done in previous years with work produced in his...
[more]Senior Fellow Clara Chin '19 presents a multi-media project "Dora's Room: Digital Dreams" on view this week in the Hop Garage. The work is a visual and tactile illustration of Chin's written thesis on the famous psychoanalysis patient Ida Bauer, better know as "Dora" in Freud's 1905 publication,...
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