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Department of English Newsletter: June 2017

in this issue Post Retirement Life/Faculty Notes/Writing Program Awards/Alumni News/Past Faculty:Lyon Norman Richardson/Graduation 2017 Post Retirement Life by Judith Oster When Mary Grimm asked me to write “about post retirement life—teaching and living in another country,” flattered though I was, something in her request sounded a strange note and I soon...

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Department of English Newsletter: December 2016

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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Department of English: September 2016

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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Department of English: June 2016

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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Department of English: March 2016

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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