English Department Events, Writing

Reflection on Vandana Singh’s Chapbook Reading and Workshop

November 29, 2023

Vandana Singh’s reading and workshop on November 17th granted us listening participants to an amorphous network of possibility in fiction. Through language, Singh ravels and unravels threads of science and society on multiple scales. Her abstract and interdisciplinary work is grounded in a few concrete representations of objects that funnel out of complex social and…

Chowder Fest Fall 2023

November 21, 2023

Nearly 100 people gathered for the English Department’s annual “Chowder Fest” celebration on November 7th at 5:45pm. This was the largest attendance that the English House has had for this event in years! Audience members were seated all throughout the house, gathered around eating, while listening to the wise words of our speakers. Three different…

Nuoc 2030 Screening and Talk

November 15, 2023

On October 24th, Professor Steve Levin and the Higgins School of Humanities invited Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh known as Minh Nguyen-Vo to Clark University for the screening and talk-back of his film, Nước 2030 which was released in 2014. Professor Levin opened the screening with an introduction about Minh Nguyen-Vo. “Minh was born in Saigon,…

Dr. Spencer Tricker’s Summer Research Reflection

October 25, 2023

Please read Dr. Tricker’s reflection below about his research this summer in Los Angeles. Among his many exciting activities, he was the keynote lecturer at a conference. … This summer, I spent five weeks at the Huntington Library in LA as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation short-term fellow. While there, I worked on two projects.…

Professor Lisa Kasmer Teaches Queer Victorians in England

October 17, 2023

This past summer, the study abroad program Advanced Studies in England (ASE) in Bath, England chose my seminar Queer Victorians to be part of their course offerings. It was exciting to teach Queer Victorians, which explores the way in which Victorian writers address queer sexuality and marginalized gender identities, in the country where many of…

Napier Scholar 2023

October 4, 2023

Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to pursue more in-depth engagement with the representations of Black womanhood and motherhood in texts. I was curious about what the depictions of Black women by Black women writers said about the experiences of Black women. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a particularly powerful text that…

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