sxd290, Author at Department of English

Collation Boot Camp: My Time at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School

July 19, 2019

This summer, I was privileged to attend a course at the Rare Book School. RBS is an independent institute housed at the University of Virginia supporting the study of book history and printing. I’d previously been awarded a scholarship to RBS, but was unable to attend until this summer....

Department of English: June 2016

July 19, 2019

in this issue Interview with Shelley Costa/Faculty Notes/Attempt at Mythology/Past Faculty: Karl Thompson/Alumni News/Post-Grad/Renovation Catherine Forsa, Eric Earnhardt, Kurt Koenigsberger, Cara Byrne, Kristin E. Kondrlik, Kate Allen, and Thrity Umrigar. Congratulations, graduates! Interview with Shelley Costa ('83) CWRU: How did you first come to write mysteries? And why mysteries particularly? And why funny mysteries? Costa: Actually,...

Interview with Shelley Costa (’83)

June 13, 2016

How did you first come to write mysteries? And why mysteries particularly? And why funny mysteries? Actually, I wrote my first mystery story at the age of ten, and during my teens I was very drawn to romantic suspense. Nancy Drew happened early, and Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie...

Interview with Eve Proper (’98)

May 31, 2016

"Students enter programs with ideas of their own about what is acceptable and what is not, but they are strongly influenced by what they can observe during their three or six or ten years of graduate study. They graduate with clearer ideas of what is ideal, what is...

Interview with Rick Pender (’80)

May 31, 2016

"That led to an invitation . . . to become an associate editor, which mainly consisted of proofreading, but a year later . . . the publisher asked me to become the magazine's editor." 1. Talk a little about being a medievalist. What was your particular area of interest? Your...

Interview with Dave Megenhardt (’91)

May 24, 2016

"Cataclysms are associated with war, famine or natural disasters, but this region has been undergoing a slow-moving, inexorable decline for decades due to economic restructuring, global competition, free trade, and wage stagnation that looked at with a longer lens surely resembles a bloodless war. These characters stumble across that...

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Collation Boot Camp: My Time at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School

Interview with Shelley Costa (’83)

Interview with Eve Proper (’98)

Interview with Rick Pender (’80)

Interview with Dave Megenhardt (’91)

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