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December 9, 2025

Letter from the Chair One of the exciting things about this time of the semester is the “to read” list and the promise of time over the holidays to dive into those books. One of the things on my “to read” list is Rachel Blau du Plessis’ Life in Handkerchiefs,...

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September 25, 2025

Letter from the Chair Life keeps moving. Faster in Fall, it seems. And because of that, the mornings when I can get up early and read something just for the fun of it—until light starts seeping in the bedroom windows—seem especially dear. This week, the book is an old friend...

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July 8, 2025

Letter from the Chair The summer is typically a slower time for academics, but I get to use my letter this month to announce a changing of the guard in the English department. I’m thrilled to share that Professor Chiyuma “Chi” Elliott stepped into the role of chair of the...

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June 23, 2025

Letter from the Chair On a recent Friday night in Los Angeles, four CWRU English faculty read from their fiction and poetry for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2025 conference. Rumor has it that 130 guests arrived to hear their work, and the work of other Cleveland collaborators....

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June 18, 2025

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 each other and begin to hear each other.” The other day–...

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June 18, 2025

Letter from the Chair It was the middle of a Friday afternoon in late August and the atmosphere was buzzy in Guilford House. Over a plate of chicken wings and sliders, Laura Sarafian, a first-year student studying English and Dance, was chatting with a group of juniors and seniors. “I...