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Spring Fling 2025

On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, students and faculty came together to celebrate the end of the semester with a wonderful continental breakfast put on by Meredith Neuman and the office assistants. It has been a busy year here at Clark University, and the Department was happy to see so many familiar faces in attendance. The…

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English Department Events, English Department News

Modernist Poetics & Queer Fruit – Professor Blake’s Talk for Higgins Faculty Series

“These fruits are not just figures.” In English professor Elizabeth Blake’s book Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms, she delves into how modernist writing about eating explores questions about bodily and literary pleasure, drawing on both food and queer studies. On February 19th, Blake delivered a talk in Dana Commons to discuss said topics, specifically fruit,…

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English Department Events

Chowder Fest 2024 Takeaways

The study of literature is now, more than ever, crucial to the next generation, so – what does it mean to be an English Major? On Tuesday, November 4, nearly 50 people gathered in the English House to find the answer to this question while celebrating the department’s annual “Chowder Fest” event. This occasion brings…

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English Department Events

Wendy Chen’s “Their Divine Fires”

Wendy Chen, author of the poetry collection Unearthings, the novel Their Divine Fires (which came out this past Spring on May 7th, 2024, with Algonquin Books), and a book-length translation of Song-dynasty woman writer Li Qingzhao called The Magpie at Night (forthcoming from Farra, Straus & Giroux in 2025), visited Clark University for a reading…

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