Paul Park: Roumania Quartet nominated for award

Sept. 24, 2009  Lecturer in English Paul Park’s Roumania Quartet was nominated for the James R. Tiptree Award for science fiction and fantasy stories that explore and expand gender roles. His first volume in the series, “Celestis,” was also nominated for the award in 1996. Listen to Paul on “Strange and Reminiscent: Paul Park on [...]

Gage McWeeny & “Bleak House”: Penguin Classics’ debut

Penguin Classics asked Gage McWeeny, assistant professor of English to provide a short piece on teaching a favorite book for their monthly newsletter and Facebook page. Read his newsletter essay on “Bleak House” here (the essay is near the bottom of the page). “And, here’s the Facebook page,” he wrote, “featuring an image of me looking [...]

Recently Published “The History of Forgetting” by Lawrence Raab

A new collection of poems of by Lawrence Raab, the Morris Professor of Rhetoric, has just been published by Penguin.  The book is called “The History of Forgetting,” his seventh collection of poems.  Poems in the book have appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, [...]