"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...

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...

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...

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...