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September 10, 2019
The APP Department of English
will host a seminar titled “Unsettled Histories: Dub Poetry and Decolonization,”
delivered by Janet Neigh, Friday, Sept. 13, from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the
Guilford Hall parlor. The lecture will take a wide-angle lens view of postcolonial…
March 19, 2019
Dave Lucas, poet laureate of Ohio and full-time lecturer in
Case Western Reserve’s Department of English, will celebrate the writings of Cleveland
poet Hart Crane in Kelvin Smith Library’s Dampeer Room on March 25 from 4 to
5:30 p.m. Known for his difficult and highly stylized modernist
poetry,…
March 12, 2019
Undergraduate students are invited to apply for the third
annual Arnaud Gelb Journalism Awards and Internship Grants, featuring up to
$2,000 in prize money and internship funding. The prize recognizes the best in
APP student journalism and also provides grants to
defray…
January 22, 2019
Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor in English, will talk about the inspiration for her new novel, The Secrets Between Us, and the challenges of writing a sequel. The event, hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, will take place Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 5 to 6 p.m. in…
January 11, 2019
Michael Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, reviewed Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In his review, Clune wrote about how Kramnick’s piece demonstrated how the literary studies…
May 25, 2018
Brad Ricca, a full-time lecturer in the Department of English, wrote an article for Book Riot titled “Comic books are real books.” In the piece, Ricca categorizes comic books among other books, contending that they share enough of the important characteristics to be of the same value. Ricca shared…
May 25, 2018
Luke Reader, a full-time lecturer in the Department of English, wrote an article titled “Opposing antisemitism is not about attacking Corbyn” for Progress Online. In the piece, he explored the greater historical context of the British Labour party’s attitude toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
February 22, 2018
Professor of English William Marling wrote a piece titled “In the Flow: On Charles J. Rzepka’s Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard” for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In the article, he reviews Rzepka’s biography of Leonard, an American novelist, short story writer and screen…
February 12, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host Michael Chiappini, a PhD candidate in the Department of English for a Graduate Student Work-in-Progress talk titled “Thinking Like a Virus: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature.” This talk will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark…
February 02, 2018
Brad Ricca, a full-time lecturer with the English department, wrote a book that was recently nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Fact Crime. The narrative biography, titled Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case…