English Literature Majors

September 29th, 2011
Photos by Kat Clark ‘12

April 20th, 2011
Photos by June Xie ‘11

And I read too! But no one took a picture of me.

–june.

in the new issue of _Harper’s Magazine,
November 2010

Professor Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shanon Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia, gave his talk “Poetry and Postcolonialism” on March 31st, 2010 to an inquisitive audience. His talk explored how poetry, specifically postcolonial poetry, draws on the fields of law, prayer, song, and other cultural practices, blurring distinctions between these conventionally separated [...]

Daisy Fried ‘89 reads from My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (2006) and new poetry in the Scheuer Room on April 1st, 2010.
–june xie ‘11.

Pictures from March 24th, 2010.
LPAC Lobby
–june xie, ‘11.

As part of an English major’s dream, I could not believe at first that I was being paid to read…

Career Services and the English Department present
Michael Pietsch, Vice-President and Publisher of
Little, Brown and Company
Tuesday, February 23 at 7:00 pm in Scheuer Room
“e-Books, iBooks, p-Books, Books!–publishing now and in the future”
Michael Pietsch is Executive Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group. Before joining Little, Brown in [...]

After a full day of discussion of English literature, seven hours worth between a course and a seminar, the literature that I attempt to read outside of these classes start to fall into thematic patterns or continually evoke quintessential literary questions. The dark side to being a major is the struggle to leave behind critical [...]