College of Arts and Sciences

in this issue Carlisle Interview/Faculty Notes/Ongoing Projects: Iris Dunkle/Past Faculty: Katherine Harriet Porter/Alumni News/Thank You/ Interview with Anne Carlisle ('73) A published novelist and journalist, Dr. Anne Carlisle is a full professor at the University of Maryland (UMUC), where she teaches online writing courses worldwide to U.S. military students. She also teaches...

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in this issue Letter from the Chair/Faculty Notes/Writers House/Past Faculty: Eleanor Thomas/Summer Project: Wiehl/Alumni News/Rare Book School/Project Narrative Letter from the Chair Dear Friends of English, We have been busy. 2015-16 turned out to be a period of significant transition for the English Department. The one-million-dollar renovation of Guilford House is perhaps the...

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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,...

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in this issue Interview with Jeff Morgan /Faculty Notes/Past Faculty: Lemuel Potwin/ Alumni News/England's Impact on a Major/ Schedule of Events March 2016 Interview with Jeff Morgan (American Comic Poetry) CWRU: Why does comic poetry make people uncomfortable? If someone says comic poetry to me, I think of something like “jest ‘fore Christmas...

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in this issue WRC and Bellflower Hall /Faculty Notes/EGSA Mentoring/ Alumni News/Letter from the Chair/ Beachy-Quick Reading The Writing Resource Center and Bellflower Hall by Kurt Koenigsberger About the Writing Resource Center Pardee Hall, in its earlier years. The Writing Resource Center was founded in 1977 by Dr Julia C. Dietrich, Assistant Professor of English....

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in this issue Letter from the Chair/"What Are You Reading?" /Faculty Notes/NEH Summer Institute/ Alumni News/ASLE Biennial Conference/Coptic Binding/Faculty Timeline/Grad Picnic June 2015 Letter from the Chair In another technocratic era, Charles Dickens intimated that calling a horse by its name was getting extremely hard. In the second chapter of Hard Times when...

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