Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—which was a National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020) and Owed (Penguin, 2020). Bennett holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and...
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Congratulations to Sarah Alpert '21, who attended NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) in St. Petersburg, FL this past weekend. Sarah submitted her work for consideration and was selected to present her poster as part of the first undergraduate session NAVSA has ever held.
Her poster was titled “Androgyny and the Gaze: Ethics, Identity, and Urban Detachment in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette", and was based on her work in Professor Christie Harner's spring 2018 course, "...
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Please join Professors McCann and O’Malley for an honors information session Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 12:15 PM in the Poetry Room in Sanborn. Pizza and drinks will be served!
For more information about the honors program in the English major, please click here: https://english.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/honors-programs-english-and-creative-writing.
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"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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