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Department of English Newsletter: December 2024

April 29, 2025

Letter from the Chair/Holiday Party/Department News/Sadar Lecture/Intersections/Summer Internships/Colloquium/Alumni News/Send Me Your News// Ryan Pfeiffer delivers the MacIntyre Lecture on Friday, December 6th: "Edward Taylor’s Epideictic Imagination." Letter from the Chair One of my favorite descriptions of a university comes from the poet Adrienne Rich, who calls it “a place where people can find...

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February 24, 2025

James Newlin‘s article, “Signs and Semblances: The Problem of Likability in Some Recent Productions of Much Ado About Nothing,“ has been published in the open-access journal Humanities. The piece is a part of the special issue “Shakespearean Performance: Contemporary Approaches, Findings, and Practices,” edited by Cynthia Lewis.

The English Department & Writing Program are proud of the work we do with first-year students at CWRU … and it pays off

September 25, 2024

Yesterday’s Daily reported that the first-year experience at CWRU ranks in the top twenty nationwide (according to US News).

This Year’s Sadar Lecture: “Automating Writing from Androids to AI”

December 13, 2023

A Lecture by Annette Vee. Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom. Monday, December 11th, 2023, 3:15—4:30pm (reception following). Generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT have suddenly thrust the automation of writing into the public spotlight. The machine learning techniques behind Large Language Models such as the GPT series may be new; however,...

Department of English Newsletter: September 2023

September 19, 2023

//Letter from the chair/Welcome back party/Bob Wallace book/Department news/Cleveland Humanities Collective/Alumni news/Conversation with Sangeeta Ray// Letter from the Chair When second-year English major Molly McLaughlin stepped to the front of the room at Waterloo Arts in Collinwood, she didn’t know she’d be reciting her villanelle to an audience that included Michelle...

Department of English Newsletter: June 2023

June 13, 2023

Letter from the Chair/Department News/1st Gertrude Mann Lecture/Career Path to the Q/Sigma Tau Delta/Catching up with Alums/Congrats to our Graduates// Letter from the Chair While the fall and winter invited us into Guilford’s parlor and Bellflower’s foyer, summer throws open the doors to the world again. The porch is our summer...

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The English Department & Writing Program are proud of the work we do with first-year students at CWRU … and it pays off

This Year’s Sadar Lecture: “Automating Writing from Androids to AI”

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