By Sally O’BrienThe English Departments annual Chowder Fest returned to the Anderson House last Tuesday evening, offering a cozy refuge from the wind outside. Students, faculty, and alumni gathered over steaming bowls of soup to celebrate stories, share experiences, and reconnect with the community that shaped them. Chowder Fest brings together past and present English…
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Career Paths for the English Major, English Department Events, Studying English
Meet Our 2025 Chowder Fest Speakers!
By Daniella ZollerEach year, the English Department puts on our annual Chowder Fest event. We encourage students to join us in indulging in a bowl of hearty soup along with conversations with our successful alumni. This fall, our speakers include Gloria Potts, Rose Wine, Christina Walcott, and Mahi Taban. Leading up to the event, two…
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Career Readiness Workshop
By Sally O’BrienOn October 9th, the English Department held a Career Readiness Workshop for English and Creative Writing students to explore career opportunities and get helpful resume advice. In this workshop, run by Midaly Carrasquillo Delgado from the Career Connections Center (CCC), students learned ways they can turn their passion for English and Creative Writing…
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Spring Fling 2025
By Daniella ZollerOn 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…
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Modernist Poetics & Queer Fruit – Professor Blake’s Talk for Higgins Faculty Series
By Izzy Simoes“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,…
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Chowder Fest 2024 Takeaways
By Daniella Zoller 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.…
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Jos Charles’ “feeld” & “Vida Nova,” A Reading
By Isabella SimoesJos Charles, author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems and feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, visited Clark University for a reading as part of Clark’s Poets and Writers Reading Series, sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the English Department. Currently, she is visiting faculty…
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Wendy Chen’s “Their Divine Fires”
Wendy Chen’s “Their Divine Fires” by Brian Ngyuen 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…
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Reflection on Vandana Singh’s Chapbook Reading and Workshop
By Ursula ZiaVandana 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…
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Chowder Fest Fall 2023
By Daniella ZollerNearly 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.…
