College of Arts and Sciences

Writing Program Awards/International Students/Faculty Notes/“Say They Name in Black English”/Book Excerpts/Alumni News Writing Program Awards Writing is at the heart of our shared academic enterprise. It is an essential skill and a flexible tool that generates questions, shapes knowledge, and inspires action. Let us celebrate the many successes of Case Western...

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Detective Novel Website/Faculty Notes/Sectarian Review Podcast/Book Excerpts/Alumni News American Detective Novel Website January marked the 20th anniversary of detnovel.com, the oldest scholarly website devoted to the American detective novel on the Internet. It was created and is maintained by Prof. William Marling, and it is linked to 34,627 other sites, including...

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in this issue Remembering Roger/Faculty Notes/Connecting International Students/Book Excerpts/Visiting Scholar/Lost Modernists/Alumni News Remembering Roger Salomon by Gary Stonum Dear friends and colleagues, I am sadly blessed with recalling some of what the late Roger Salomon meant to the English Department during his time as a faculty member and afterwards from his enduring influence. Not...

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in this issue Letter from the Chair/Faculty Notes/Frederik N. Smith/Book Excerpts/Alumni News/In Memoriam Letter from the Chair For those of you actively engaged in department activities, I want to say how much I’ve enjoyed getting to know you and working with you since July 1. For those I have not yet met,...

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