tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46644567551160414442024-03-14T01:26:45.183-07:00Villanova EnglishVillanova Englishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142834661583996580noreply@blogger.comBlogger1120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-80057682916075936242024-03-12T10:55:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:09:39.686-07:00Just Published: Joe Drury on Humans, Machines, and AutomatonsProfessor Joe Drury has a chapter coming out next week in the new <i>Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English</i>, edited by Nicole Aljoe, Sarah Eron, and Suvir Kaul. The title of Professor Drury's essay is “Humans, Machines, and Automatons.”<div><br />Here is the abstract of Professor Drury's chapter:<div><br />Lord Macartney’s assumptions about the Chinese taste for spectacular ornamental machinery during his unsuccessful 1793–1794 embassy reflected changing attitudes toward technology within Britain’s Industrial Enlightenment. Where machines had previously been valued for their aesthetic qualities, the labor required to produce them, and the luxurious consumption they excited, late eighteenth-century commentators such as Adam Smith increasingly emphasized their utility, the productive labor they saved, and the frugality required of the capitalists who introduced them. Responding to this shift, Frances Burney’s <i>Evelina</i> and William Beckford’s <i>Vathek</i> reimagined the longstanding British enthusiasm for ornamental mechanical exhibitions and toys as a barbarous form of “Oriental” fetishism.<div><br /></div><div>To learn more and to read the chapter, you can visit the book's <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003271208/routledge-companion-eighteenth-century-literatures-english-sarah-eron-nicole-aljoe-suvir-kaul" target="_blank">website</a>.<br /><br /><img alt="The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English" src="https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978100327/9781003271208.jpg" /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-6161512708255597522024-02-27T09:40:00.000-08:002024-03-04T06:20:10.734-08:00Coming soon! A Timeline of the "Black Barbie" Doll<p>Coming soon! Villanova undergrad English major Jenine Hazlewood will be presenting to the school district of Philadelphia on the topic of "What were they made for? A Timeline of the 'Black Barbie' Doll." </p><p>This free virtual professional development workshop will take place on March 16 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. To learn more and to register, please visit the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5h2bBSpZs9T0SQYFMchmjBIcnmhOcJNz9FYNl1NLL_BxNhA/viewform" target="_blank">virtual form</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzD1AID1OAkq13Qm8psiNN7yz5Qaopg8EySCncu0e-VZUkOETNbiq6uU4QTaqEI8lFKllHobupPmWPNbn9gXOq8OBz27_lHJ7F8Fnygc5nUvE5LOMmCYnRNS9zvgiNngtfDjRDmdlBemONk1gwxS2u0PRWiWam3hq-oFcERpbpYhL3pqqTRzXSW249YAI/s2000/image0.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1294" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzD1AID1OAkq13Qm8psiNN7yz5Qaopg8EySCncu0e-VZUkOETNbiq6uU4QTaqEI8lFKllHobupPmWPNbn9gXOq8OBz27_lHJ7F8Fnygc5nUvE5LOMmCYnRNS9zvgiNngtfDjRDmdlBemONk1gwxS2u0PRWiWam3hq-oFcERpbpYhL3pqqTRzXSW249YAI/w259-h400/image0.png" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMEMrb5NO3dq_JCu2X1AV8lHZR_rXWEvnEDA2ax6IafUeG7f7Rx4mo-tUl1-NqrpwpBLJ1V4I1L3WWts-7RYZpbLXeoaFAcM181VOzk7nrBeIdFlqst34Wtbk59exMed917bpH54rIpPzYsVTyC3_qOq0shMehMmpdSFiS8fvWRzope5M_e7arPx6vYw/s1170/image1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="1170" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMEMrb5NO3dq_JCu2X1AV8lHZR_rXWEvnEDA2ax6IafUeG7f7Rx4mo-tUl1-NqrpwpBLJ1V4I1L3WWts-7RYZpbLXeoaFAcM181VOzk7nrBeIdFlqst34Wtbk59exMed917bpH54rIpPzYsVTyC3_qOq0shMehMmpdSFiS8fvWRzope5M_e7arPx6vYw/w400-h398/image1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-44505336846254057082024-02-27T07:22:00.000-08:002024-02-27T07:22:41.387-08:00Tortured Poets Department: Taylor Swift Writing Hangout on March 19<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinUgY-NdaUn6rnOMyLpY60a71Xnm8Aw0v8itKqEQ7UiT-VDlOt4lYRsD8MZaCXcIxY6sdA-CEb749k0Gixf7MChmuOMnLb4-SYTxRt1PPoYcpx_URrHEwZvts6SwGoMytwukJQYgP8xk7MzANn8YchauF5aVji4-q0oGhKn_zDY4NWxtF7KMjRpKwspuTN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinUgY-NdaUn6rnOMyLpY60a71Xnm8Aw0v8itKqEQ7UiT-VDlOt4lYRsD8MZaCXcIxY6sdA-CEb749k0Gixf7MChmuOMnLb4-SYTxRt1PPoYcpx_URrHEwZvts6SwGoMytwukJQYgP8xk7MzANn8YchauF5aVji4-q0oGhKn_zDY4NWxtF7KMjRpKwspuTN=w493-h640" width="493" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Join the English Department for a Taylor-Swift-inspired creative writing hangout on March 19 from 6:00-7:00 pm in Falvey 205. The English department will provide writing prompts, music, and food. You bring the tortured poets.</span><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-33818404717852213172024-02-27T07:18:00.000-08:002024-02-27T07:51:20.867-08:00Pre-registration reception: Friday, March 15<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Learn about fall 2024 classes, eat food, win books or swag in a raffle, talk to English students and faculty, make crafts!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqYmMfh_5BCdKuZk8N08Q-G5gQoKVp7f-q2AQeOfFjcr2hUKtMwQ15s7OCZQlaYabUCUn708jqONPK8nHAA7LaYF8FIYHzmKNf4idsrBxTmvjdKdsDmSamqbkB7wfGzyd-A1CUQhbl-sURxeedhe0KwWRZenYtjv7LJqRQ6EL-bHL3-wvmOUEuHgmR9u3l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqYmMfh_5BCdKuZk8N08Q-G5gQoKVp7f-q2AQeOfFjcr2hUKtMwQ15s7OCZQlaYabUCUn708jqONPK8nHAA7LaYF8FIYHzmKNf4idsrBxTmvjdKdsDmSamqbkB7wfGzyd-A1CUQhbl-sURxeedhe0KwWRZenYtjv7LJqRQ6EL-bHL3-wvmOUEuHgmR9u3l=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-75321022066120500962024-02-23T14:58:00.000-08:002024-02-23T14:58:11.342-08:00Submit to Villanova’s Ellipsis Magazine<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Villanova’s Ellipsis Literary Magazine is seeking submissions! Everyone is encouraged to submit: undergraduates and graduates as well as professors and staff within the Villanova community. We accept a wide host of traditional and non-traditional media from writing, poetry, and art to embroidery, text messages, memes, and anything else with aesthetic value, humor, personal meaning, or, perhaps, a touch of the bizarre. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Simply submit your work to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ellipsis@villlanova.edu">ellipsis@villlanova.edu</a>, and we’ll consider it for this year’s edition. Our deadline for submissions is March 20th. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiekloN0cCMkeAmSqXTFXP1h-oyt7fJA02w4M-Dy9llb-1WTStfSOmmsNK-HZcU7DVdMyWdQWRRiPeR0AcySHJ5lT3u_9YCO-t1YYibZA_oSybeXQ5gCoAv5TWjUkCiWTVEp_YkX1uYyKvK9ON0H5vjsNmSiOziILNMkpj4NyARTdB6zRnOpztfYCZKctHG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiekloN0cCMkeAmSqXTFXP1h-oyt7fJA02w4M-Dy9llb-1WTStfSOmmsNK-HZcU7DVdMyWdQWRRiPeR0AcySHJ5lT3u_9YCO-t1YYibZA_oSybeXQ5gCoAv5TWjUkCiWTVEp_YkX1uYyKvK9ON0H5vjsNmSiOziILNMkpj4NyARTdB6zRnOpztfYCZKctHG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-43270537993587561732024-02-23T07:55:00.000-08:002024-02-23T07:55:55.319-08:00Spring '24 Class Visit Flyers<p>Our student advisory council will be making visits to classes in the coming weeks to talk about the English major and minor at Villanova. Here are some of the flyers they'll be showing:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihrkjhhLURkfUxkR6VyLpLtJpe_jR_WP7mrji4T5L6IC_6gkVBAKhWJXfGMWuazV8f_FODcb1jgyOWtyunaPQlQkDg4Ln8Yyj5KTz0xnpa8yNdqNQiO_6MMnTM-vjG8399q6bLAEMhfAkg1wSgOr730DgDOk9BxivKi1VdqVCWZlXUByxFNNeKEUw0W6X4/s2000/Handout%20with%20QR%20Code%20Spring%2024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihrkjhhLURkfUxkR6VyLpLtJpe_jR_WP7mrji4T5L6IC_6gkVBAKhWJXfGMWuazV8f_FODcb1jgyOWtyunaPQlQkDg4Ln8Yyj5KTz0xnpa8yNdqNQiO_6MMnTM-vjG8399q6bLAEMhfAkg1wSgOr730DgDOk9BxivKi1VdqVCWZlXUByxFNNeKEUw0W6X4/w494-h640/Handout%20with%20QR%20Code%20Spring%2024.png" width="494" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTIyOwhC-TodywuRhZLbRMJtYqj2C1ksA0OwblhDdNO-2vqOesLefF0NwimFux-6FM_dDlLOy6ux4wVkNDrPD-hNhw8O1WzZtrI350r3yzmW0A993isWnoA4iWmzWX_JCFcBB7xnzhBDJE8ep_hkVelmab-ZApp-4mwDax7KMxLp6_Jc7HJ7jQz_UbXA/s3599/Careers%20Support%202022.png" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0jC5fGtsI9REbBaf8NaaKGTXGEA5B6Rceps-bAowzx0o6tmjdLSRmgKf78YmbexIwR1ejsEmHEOHpVyheTvt-VQHS0qfdes_BhCZkzKZvJFVACuwQzm8wVQeZZm8nuYvXK1_aGPFcgdoGnm6M0JLie7oJDITuvtU-oSrXqJXyGyxPIGFrDLgZ-ZSEA/s3599/Why%20Minor%20in%20English_new_FINAL.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3599" data-original-width="2700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0jC5fGtsI9REbBaf8NaaKGTXGEA5B6Rceps-bAowzx0o6tmjdLSRmgKf78YmbexIwR1ejsEmHEOHpVyheTvt-VQHS0qfdes_BhCZkzKZvJFVACuwQzm8wVQeZZm8nuYvXK1_aGPFcgdoGnm6M0JLie7oJDITuvtU-oSrXqJXyGyxPIGFrDLgZ-ZSEA/w480-h640/Why%20Minor%20in%20English_new_FINAL.png" width="480" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px 92.3pt 0px 36pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></b></p><p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px 92.3pt 0px 36pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><br /></span></b></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Fall 2024 UPPER-LEVEL ENGLISH COURSES</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2003 Intro to Creative Writing TR 11:30-12:45, Tsering Wangmo</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Designed for students who wish to experiment with composing several kinds of creative writing: short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2006 The Writing of Poetry, MW 3:20 – 4:35, Lisa Sewell</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Instruction in poetry writing, including how to craft imagery, figurative language, sound, line, and rhythm, as well as traditional and contemporary forms. Students read widely and write lyric, narrative and experimental poems that are shared in a supportive workshop setting.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2013 Writing of Memoir TR 4:00-5:15, Tsering Wangmo</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Memoir is an opportunity to understand life. This writing workshop provides students with practical skills in reading and writing about the events, memories, places that inform their lives.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2017 Writing Detective Fiction TR 10:00-11:15, Alan Drew</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Do you love detective fiction? Have you always wanted to write your own "whodunit?" In this course, you'll read and analyze classic and contemporary detective fiction while working to produce, workshop, and polish your own creative work.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2018 Nature Writing Workshop TR 2:30-3:45, Cathy Staples</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The natural world will be a source for the creative non-fiction, poetry, and fiction pieces students will write in this class. Through readings, field trips, writing exercises, and workshops students will learn to sharpen their language and see more deeply.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2023 Journalism TR 1:00-2:15, Kathryn Szumanski</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Introduces students to key techniques of news gathering and news writing. We will also explore the principles and rules that guide the writing of news pieces, editorials, and features.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2043 Pop Culture & Resistance MW 3:20-4:35, Karyn Hollis</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">An analysis of notable works of art, music, literature, video and social media created by people of various international, ethnic and minoritized groups to publicize situations of importance to their communities.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2061 Editing & Publishing MW 1:55-3:10, Adrienne Perry</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Literary publishing in a diverse, compelling field involving both art and commerce. This hands-on class explores the economic, social, and artistic forces that shape contemporary literature. Grapple with what it means to "make culture" while honing editorial skills.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2250 Ways of Reading TR 10:00-11:15, Michael Dowdy</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">An exploration of how we engage, understand, explicate, and enjoy texts of all sorts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2304 Contemporary World Lit & Environment MW 4:45-6:00, Lisa Sewell</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The study of global contemporary fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and film that focuses on the environment, climate change, social justice and the future of nature.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>2306 Harry Potter: Quests/Questions MWF 10:40-11:30, Evan Radcliffe</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">In this course we will use the tools of literary analysis to discuss all seven Harry Potter novels. Central topics will include how the series evolves; Rowling’s use of novelistic form, character and characterization, and literary models; and the books’ representations of gender, class, and other social issues.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>3150 Chaucer MW 1:55-3:10, Brooke Hunter</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">This course introduces the work of Geoffrey Chaucer through a reading of his lively collection of stories and storytellers, The Canterbury Tales. Through its devout stories, explicit comedies, and probing romances, we will explore medieval society, Chaucer's insights on subjectivity, and influential medieval genres.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>3181 Irish Epics TR 8:30-9:45, Joseph Lennon</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">A study of Irish literature from its origins in the world of Celtic mythology, epic and saga through the development of Anglo-Irish literature.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>3550 Victorian Publics & Populations MW 3:20-4:35, Mary Mullen</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Reading nineteenth-century literature with an eye to who was reading, what they were reading, and how this reading shaped political debates, we'll consider the Victorian Britain's burgeoning print culture, mass movements, colonial publics, and emergent demographic thinking.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>3620 Modernism & Fanfiction TR 2:30-3:45, Megan Quigley</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">This class studies the surprise connections between literary modernism, the early 20th-century experimental literature that explored taboo language, new ideas about empire, sexuality, race and technology, and contemporary fanfiction. We will read fanfiction, bio fiction, and early 20th-century classics and write analytical essays and fanfic of our own.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4000 American Literary Traditions I TR 1:00-2:15, Kimberly Takahata</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">What makes literature “American”? Who gets to decide? This course examines how literary traditions developed and changed in nineteenth-century America, with a particular focus on race, citizenship, colonialism, and history-making.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4646 Representation Matters: Race & Ethnicity in Cont. America TR 4:00-5:15, Yumi Lee</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Canonical texts that treat questions of race and ethnicity. Focus on the critical role of language and literature in constructing and deconstructing racial categories.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4651 Lives of the Undocumented TR 1:00-2:15, Tsering Wangmo</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The lived experiences of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. told in their own words through memoir, fiction, poetry, graphic novel, testimony, creative and critical essays.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4652 Letters, Texts, & Twitter TR 10:00-11:15, Kamran Javadizadeh</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">How does writing bring together distant lovers, friends, family? We'll read letters, the digital forms (social media, instant messaging) that have replaced them, and their representation in novels, poems, and essays to explore how intimacy forms across distance.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4690 Motherhood & Reproductive Fictions TR 11:30-12:45, Jean Lutes</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">What power do mothers have? Who has the power to define motherhood? This course examines</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">U.S. narratives of motherhood from the nineteenth century to the present, with special attention</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">to issues of reproductive justice. Race, ethnicity, class, and religion will be central to our</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">discussions.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4704 Borders in Latinx Literature TR 8:30-9:45, Michael Dowdy</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">How do borders impact our lives, and how might they be imagined differently? This course examines how “the border” shapes Latinx literatures, from the U.S.-Mexico national boundary to alternative sites and conceptions of borders, including texts by Latinx writers from various national origins and in multiple genres.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>4705 Literature of Addiction & Recovery MWF 10:40-11:30, Travis Foster</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">This community-based course for Villanova students and incarcerated men will use literature to explore the causes and experience of addiction in addition to the routes taken toward recovery.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">On Fridays, students will leave Villanova for SCI Chester at 9:00 a.m. and return to campus by noon. All registered students will be required to attend a spring semester orientation and to complete clearance forms necessary for entrance into the prison.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>5000 Black Diaspora & Identity MW 1:55-3:10, Chiji Akoma</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">This course investigates the notion of Blackness, principally as it is represented in fiction. Using Blackness as an identity category, we’ll examine how writers across the Diaspora spectrum, principally, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, delineate the place of Africa in the formation of Diaspora culture and identity. But beyond the black particularities of the texts, the seminar invites students to consider ideas of hybridity, multi-ethnicity, nationalism, and ways in which one’s “received” culture intersect with “perceived” culture as templates for identity formation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>HON 5440-100 Poets in the Gallery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Weekend of Oct. 25-27, 2024, Cathy Staples</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The workshop begins on Friday in the Honors seminar room with exercises in memory and observation. On Saturday morning, we’ll take the train into Philadelphia and spend the day at PMA on the parkway. We will write our way through the galleries, using the paintings as well as sculpture and installation as entry points for new poems. On Sunday, we’ll gather to share new work over coffee, tea, French toast, & banana bread.</span></span></p></div></div></div><p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0px 92.3pt 0px 36pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">You can find our English Alumni Careers Booklet <a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/artsci/english/undergraduate/Careers%20brochure%208x8%20booklet%202019.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px 92.3pt 0px 36pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-6251732880943374032024-02-21T12:33:00.000-08:002024-02-21T12:33:35.048-08:00Professor Takahata Takes Part in Land Acknowledgement Panel<p>On February 21st, VU English Professor Kimberly Takahata moderated a discussion on approaches to including and teaching Lenape materials in the classroom, featuring Adam DePaul, the Chief of Education and tribal storykeeper of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania.</p><p>This discussion followed a panel on the impact of Land Acknowledgements at academic institutions and why they are merely a starting point to supporting indigenous communities. The panelists included Adam DePaul, Chief of Education and Tribal Storykeeper; Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania; as well as Modonna Kongal, Meg Martin, and Autumn Coard from N.I.S.A, the Native Indigenous Students Association. Elisha Chi, a white settler descendant of the Iñupiat of the Bering Straits region, moderated the panel. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJWdNYg9mzpciefEV1NgIzcXeFd7yEQgT5rN6kenZWYupLgGqUXruc5vrCO0HPLggZqGX1FlWlradGYipp9CGcXyLoU9wIIx0C1x9cYj6p9l3c5VxsEvbSvPv-eygjF-60p6T4hSoQYVZ29kAppC52pkGMYGXI16tQNIhHz_XMq-IaE72h8GbfFuc6VnI/s4032/IMG_0415.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJWdNYg9mzpciefEV1NgIzcXeFd7yEQgT5rN6kenZWYupLgGqUXruc5vrCO0HPLggZqGX1FlWlradGYipp9CGcXyLoU9wIIx0C1x9cYj6p9l3c5VxsEvbSvPv-eygjF-60p6T4hSoQYVZ29kAppC52pkGMYGXI16tQNIhHz_XMq-IaE72h8GbfFuc6VnI/w400-h300/IMG_0415.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kimberly Takahata and Adam DePaul</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnjcBmCNosKTHptnEufzo35Mw8QatS465xlaOwFzvXdVV0XX3WEkIgwWtrc6AKCWbJMejYEYYj26cHoau5s5-vu2k4ARw7qpcFlqBkDljyuO3wUDPGGheuxJxPN3xGNVcEyg5CJJ9EzVL5K1jsWr1HgmqNBtDvdRqPs7O1hyyGFX55MYmNBqRVm8i-G8G/s5100/NATIVE%20LAND%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3359" data-original-width="5100" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnjcBmCNosKTHptnEufzo35Mw8QatS465xlaOwFzvXdVV0XX3WEkIgwWtrc6AKCWbJMejYEYYj26cHoau5s5-vu2k4ARw7qpcFlqBkDljyuO3wUDPGGheuxJxPN3xGNVcEyg5CJJ9EzVL5K1jsWr1HgmqNBtDvdRqPs7O1hyyGFX55MYmNBqRVm8i-G8G/w640-h422/NATIVE%20LAND%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-45190861626677227412024-02-16T07:33:00.000-08:002024-02-16T11:12:05.951-08:00Jean Lutes's New Co-Written Article (and the Nova Students Who Helped Make it Happen)<p>Professor Jean Lutes has co-authored an article that investigates a fascinating unpublished manuscript by turn-of-the-century African-American author Alice Dunbar-Nelson. The article appears in <i>American Literary History</i>, Volume 36, Issue 1, Summer 2024, and is titled"An Unpublished Tale about African American Poetry: Alice Dunbar-Nelson's 'The Grievances of the Books' (1897)."</p><p>The article acknowledges three Villanova students who helped to transcribe the unpublished manuscript that Professor Lutes and her co-writer, Professor Sandra A. Zagarell, wrote about: Current English major Jenine Hazlewood, '26; current master's student Matthew Villanueva, MA '24; and recent English major graduate Adrianna Ogando, '23. </p><p>Here's an excerpt from the article that provides a flavor of Dunbar-Nelson's original piece:</p><p>In April 1897, an ambitious young author drafted a hallucinatory narrative that was never published. Its unnamed narrator falls asleep and dreams that real-life books and newspaper clippings by African American poets come alive. They call a convention, appoint her chair of a grievance committee, and task her with “listening to our complaints and suggesting remedies for our ills” (7). Meticulously written in graceful cursive with occasional strikeouts on 37 pages of unlined note paper, “The Grievances of the Books” is a funny, demanding, self-consciously literary mash-up that veers among reciting poetry, documenting authorial infighting, gently spoofing the formal political conventions organized to resist racial oppression, and lamenting the small readership for poems by African Americans. Taking readers on a breakneck tour of Black-authored poetry in the US, the narrative quotes from 13 published poems and refers to two others. Although it includes many poems published in the 1890s, “Grievances” stretches back to Phillis Wheatley’s publishing debut in 1773 and cites several antebellum verses. It ends, abruptly, with an indignant standoff between bound books and frayed clippings. As the narrator puts it in the manuscript’s final line, “the Grievances were never finished” (26).</p><p>You can read more from the article <a href="https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/36/1/51/7608939?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=alh&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=042e6835-ba3c-433b-a782-d271756d5ab8" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Congratulations to Professor Lutes and to these students!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCy9SpsdYpyXNY2ijyEFw5VKYhvis9C0RYzoLsnTPivgzI-Zx0cAF-W1kaB3p0tqmV6LQqBAvis4_U7Kj-OM5PO0HkbJdFovCQ3_gAgk9jBSjHnNc2GQnovwUOEYaxxyImQghwxAhFvjVxoLT9adtejwlHsyP4b3cI6TijtT78_jxqi_0EIlnMKPFysOBA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="the cover of a literary journal" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="520" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCy9SpsdYpyXNY2ijyEFw5VKYhvis9C0RYzoLsnTPivgzI-Zx0cAF-W1kaB3p0tqmV6LQqBAvis4_U7Kj-OM5PO0HkbJdFovCQ3_gAgk9jBSjHnNc2GQnovwUOEYaxxyImQghwxAhFvjVxoLT9adtejwlHsyP4b3cI6TijtT78_jxqi_0EIlnMKPFysOBA=w278-h400" width="278" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-10915798861507979992024-02-09T05:54:00.000-08:002024-02-09T05:54:07.908-08:00Professor Kimberly Takahata to present research at Penn<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">On February 22, 2024 at 5:00 p.m., Professor Kimberly Takahata will give <a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/graduate/working-groups/resvic">a talk</a><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"> titled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Not Witnessing John Gabriel Stedman's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">A Narrative of a Five Years Expedition.</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">”</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> It will take place in the</span> grad lounge (Fisher Bennett Hall 330) </span>at the University of Pennsylvania's English department.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcED3NQCSgdB04VAhi7Z0_CpqCwOCC8RNP7B04ighK7Lck_iU5qerIaZe1wRmGXUJCSoZ8DY_A8ODJ2NswdBFZAcCnLPRahy1G5oS1PLHh0_bJ4pkXgM8H7POY1vWrLmv3Cl2J1OT3yepSegEJSYj3vt3Jv6lmMV6mY2kF-KqHxnHh7Ac1Z-_bLgz1ms2a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcED3NQCSgdB04VAhi7Z0_CpqCwOCC8RNP7B04ighK7Lck_iU5qerIaZe1wRmGXUJCSoZ8DY_A8ODJ2NswdBFZAcCnLPRahy1G5oS1PLHh0_bJ4pkXgM8H7POY1vWrLmv3Cl2J1OT3yepSegEJSYj3vt3Jv6lmMV6mY2kF-KqHxnHh7Ac1Z-_bLgz1ms2a" width="180" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-77394611938964156192024-02-09T05:47:00.000-08:002024-02-09T05:47:49.650-08:00Spring 2024 BIPOC Writing Hangouts<p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">BIPOC Writing Hangouts are Back!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The monthly BIPOC writing hangouts are for Villanova community members—students, staff, faculty, and alumni—who identify as people of color. You do not need to have any creative writing experience! Pizza, prompts, and company will be provided at our hangouts hosted by BIPOC faculty in the English Department. This semester, we will meet on February 21, March 20, and April 17. Come join us! If you would like more information, you can email Kimberly Takahata at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:kimberly.takahata@villanova.edu" style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">kimberly.takahata@villanova.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">The first meeting of the semester will take place on Wednesday, February 21 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in SAC 402, the English department conference room.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihJg-WngW8Y2SygtCkeeN1_0ivMzkxp0Hd85LG-wAAosJ2IpVmI_ibQ5bJQn05-wAnBGY0lhhNTsx1mUuNqQghzUJRd3NUZRD7QB_CXK-9RQdApg_rd09mDR-mpVDuJndwgzdua3tFO-HKBXcZC2Mc84GSbwHO-b4oHl5nyfkro5astbmBZ_13XUEwTEUY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="580" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihJg-WngW8Y2SygtCkeeN1_0ivMzkxp0Hd85LG-wAAosJ2IpVmI_ibQ5bJQn05-wAnBGY0lhhNTsx1mUuNqQghzUJRd3NUZRD7QB_CXK-9RQdApg_rd09mDR-mpVDuJndwgzdua3tFO-HKBXcZC2Mc84GSbwHO-b4oHl5nyfkro5astbmBZ_13XUEwTEUY" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-66403154279917442232024-02-01T08:27:00.000-08:002024-02-16T06:05:28.324-08:00English and Creative Writing Awards<p><b> Villanova English Department Essay Awards, 2023-24</b></p><p>If you have a piece of work that you're especially proud of, please consider submitting it for consideration for one of these awards.</p><p><b>The Margaret Powell Esmonde Memorial Award</b>, which comes with a prize of $250, is given to the most distinguished scholarly or critical essay written by a graduate student in a Villanova English course within the last 12 months.</p><p><b>The Jerome J. Fischer Memorial Awards</b>, which come with a prize of $250, are given to the most distinguished scholarly or critical essays written by an undergraduate student at Villanova within the last 12 months.</p><p>Submissions for the Fischer Award must have been written either for a Villanova English course (all except ENG 1975) or for a Villanova Honors course (1842 level or higher) taught by a member of the Villanova English faculty. It is permissible to revise or expand papers beyond what was submitted for the course. Submissions may be excerpted from a senior Honors thesis.</p><p><b>The Core Literature and Writing Seminar Essay Award</b>, which also comes with a prize of $250, is given to the most distinguished critical essay written for a Villanova Core Literature and Writing Seminar (ENG 1975) in the previous calendar year (i.e. in Spring or Fall 2023).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Format</b></p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In addition to their essay, students should include a cover page including the course and professor for which the paper was written, as well as their email and a local mailing address</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Students should also submit the essay assignment or an approximation of the assignment.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Essays should be formatted in Times New Roman 12 (or equivalent font) and double-spaced.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For the Fischer Award, papers up to 6 pages will be considered separately from papers that are 6-15 pages. Longer papers are expected to engage scholarly sources.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Essays should be formatted in MLA or Chicago Style.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Only one submission per award is allowed.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Judges are looking for argumentative originality and rigor, elegance of writing, and interpretive incisiveness. Submissions should be carefully proofread.</p><p>The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 14, 2024. Submissions should be emailed as an attachment to <a href="mailto: joseph.drury@villanova.edu" target="_blank">Professor Joseph Drury</a>.</p><p>For previous winners, as well as information about Jerome J. Fischer, see our <a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/english/awards.html" target="_blank">department Awards page</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The George D. Murphy, Ph.D. & Honors/English Awards in Creative Writing</b></p><p>The contests are open to all Villanova undergraduates and will be judged anonymously by a panel of Villanova faculty and Philadelphia area writers. Winners will receive a $250 cash award and will be honored and the Department of English awards reception on Friday, April 26.</p><p><b>Guidelines</b></p><p>Entries must be typed. For poetry submit no more than five poems (ten page maximum). Prose entries should be no more than twenty-five pages. The name of the author should only appear on the cover letter and should not appear on the work itself.</p><p>The cover letter should include:</p><p>Name, address, phone number, major, email and titles of the poems or prose piece.</p><p>Email entries as a Word Document to <a href="mailto:alan.drew@villanova.edu" target="_blank">Alan Drew</a> and <a href="mailto:lisa.sewell@villanova.edu" target="_blank">Lisa Sewell</a>.</p><p>George D. Murphy, Ph.D. received his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1951) in English from Notre Dame University and his Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He joined Villanova’s English Department in 1954 and retired in 2000 after 46 years of service. His scholarly publications focused on American writers of the 20th Century. While at Villanova, he was known for his exquisite sense of humor and a singular gift for recalling and recounting a host of humorous tales. While an undergraduate at Notre Dame, he was on the editorial board of its literary magazine—<i>The Juggler of Notre Dame</i>— and contributed a number of poems, short stories, and critical essays. He returned to creative writing at the end of his life as a way of coping with grief over his wife’s death and produced many first-rate poems.</p><p>Deadline: Friday, March 8th</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-COWyAMysrtp6kft_X4zRAFJlr6_8fAWqCpGzA8uA1unCdGQclXwyasOh7L7aPN55bc26xZxVZaLW_dd_53va1o6LqAqshMN2uxcnA1SBXnzlwKrPIY0NHiYA4DJjkw5XIY32XGzPM37ifMjmDZZvMEkF3YITAacH-V8GaaKW8zK-aX2Vz7-H1x8knLyf/s1700/CW%20Awards%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="1100" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-COWyAMysrtp6kft_X4zRAFJlr6_8fAWqCpGzA8uA1unCdGQclXwyasOh7L7aPN55bc26xZxVZaLW_dd_53va1o6LqAqshMN2uxcnA1SBXnzlwKrPIY0NHiYA4DJjkw5XIY32XGzPM37ifMjmDZZvMEkF3YITAacH-V8GaaKW8zK-aX2Vz7-H1x8knLyf/w414-h640/CW%20Awards%202024.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-52780616785871831232024-01-30T04:25:00.000-08:002024-01-30T04:25:14.490-08:00M.A. English alum publishes an article in the Steinbeck Review<p>Sam Covais, an alum of the Villanova English masters program, recently published <span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit;">"'A Guy Needs Somebody': A Study of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Philia</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit;">in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Of Mice and Men." </i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/917420">You can read the article here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgysnm0DCPnFljL2WLq5DSYvWygSJk-xHVyaitVrX2NDCfb_njj3ewiN0Y5gUD-0SPoWKKSeDm8ca1sBdFOkz4Oa-CwPKFnluBvORbzcvqDXC6ZvHDxBVX63vv3SanXb4DGZQuDlUFaHqHwnriOTFkx2wGASo5_brjfe0UIqPFQaW4Z7Ly3EAgXdLxRDQ2g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2883" data-original-width="1844" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgysnm0DCPnFljL2WLq5DSYvWygSJk-xHVyaitVrX2NDCfb_njj3ewiN0Y5gUD-0SPoWKKSeDm8ca1sBdFOkz4Oa-CwPKFnluBvORbzcvqDXC6ZvHDxBVX63vv3SanXb4DGZQuDlUFaHqHwnriOTFkx2wGASo5_brjfe0UIqPFQaW4Z7Ly3EAgXdLxRDQ2g=w411-h640" width="411" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-7422486116289541402024-01-29T10:41:00.000-08:002024-01-29T10:41:44.711-08:00Social Justice Reading Group: Palestine<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7h2b9kqLMu16fOBYwDEFww35G9VjKOXqMrDifbhKjeadDrfiz066YeaVBXICN-e1cBPgiRxt0wGwHIr23g7AMxn6DCmHZuqhFKasYOf3o5TtnphsVEfHCBrN7pQ6QXXrkQPTMmpiddx4Y1zcQLQI9XQHJr_ZfmBWbDA3dmDQluRrZEnIlLjZad1AoN3c8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="1654" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7h2b9kqLMu16fOBYwDEFww35G9VjKOXqMrDifbhKjeadDrfiz066YeaVBXICN-e1cBPgiRxt0wGwHIr23g7AMxn6DCmHZuqhFKasYOf3o5TtnphsVEfHCBrN7pQ6QXXrkQPTMmpiddx4Y1zcQLQI9XQHJr_ZfmBWbDA3dmDQluRrZEnIlLjZad1AoN3c8=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>To get involved in the social justice reading group (this semester, on Palestine), <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6QZfsm6IMG1dBRfjhzc6MwOedqqLokIkLyNBnU1lJV8-Xtw/viewform">complete the interest form here.</a></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-11261203458044045782024-01-17T06:14:00.000-08:002024-01-17T06:14:40.487-08:00New Undergraduate Literary Magazine at NYU<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NYU students are launching </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Weasel</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, a new undergraduate literary magazine open for submissions from students from any institution. They recently published our </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweaselmagazine.com%2FCurrent-Edition&data=05%7C02%7Cmary.l.mullen%40villanova.edu%7Ce373d0b441dc47ecc3de08dc16e76dfd%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C638410430447124148%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C41000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AWC1TK6KQY2BqGHSk2LKS8igFtSj6b4CzPP3IZQxehs%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://weaselmagazine.com/Current-Edition" shash="LO9dXPbTSlNqmuXsb5iupUPrYnhKr0kxwG4x4beGtTexEo2MAxA/stQEH5067rpzOSf4EOEsBx5XJaHbBtqOWl/952lNMWM3ngCfvTKEfWpHBVtwNct7bZzp+EErXV5TfhLxDbksempU5d8UD00FQjqM1Q2Q8NN6pvAr09NOv4w=" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" target="_blank">first edition</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and will be opening submissions for our next edition soon. More information can be found on their </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweaselmagazine.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cmary.l.mullen%40villanova.edu%7Ce373d0b441dc47ecc3de08dc16e76dfd%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C638410430447133692%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C41000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=R2FLHfK%2FIvl6HwP9dc50EychRhx1o7cpPZtWO5Gvczw%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://weaselmagazine.com/" shash="wMM8Db2o7d5L5GNhcV5bD+EyEPv8uFtEY9nZmYU3zcij/xsx7gulw6xW4BvefHdWPgX5vQuS40wqjDwvrgmvO32yNR2+jl84MSM+V41iK8Kh3+IxS/GtICdqSR2F7re9luRdovVTNapQTrA5o8HZH6fKTVQzz9jMNVNPYRFyXGc=" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" target="_blank">website</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Besides our semester editions, they are launching an online publication for regular prose and poetry contributions on a website called <i>Letters</i>. This side of the magazine has rolling submissions, so students are welcome to submit their work at t<a href="https://forms.gle/29NjcoigaZ5vFoSc6">his google form </a>.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc-614kDqmgXIcm7ZHb76M9wvVflYxFisWTxTVLU3EgF7z10K13jxgqJz9OP9rm6U-Aaq8iU6rUUcgb18sY8Nx2aa2KdqTfKCcKRqpWXsyQFWYq20j3LMDuzjwvRkynRNTFHiAExXHUkrAZQpKw5sO6YI-WNBQye581JOzFLi8v0FiDcAuRBC6ZdZ2WoK8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1572" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc-614kDqmgXIcm7ZHb76M9wvVflYxFisWTxTVLU3EgF7z10K13jxgqJz9OP9rm6U-Aaq8iU6rUUcgb18sY8Nx2aa2KdqTfKCcKRqpWXsyQFWYq20j3LMDuzjwvRkynRNTFHiAExXHUkrAZQpKw5sO6YI-WNBQye581JOzFLi8v0FiDcAuRBC6ZdZ2WoK8=w640-h236" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-70819023189455822302024-01-17T06:05:00.000-08:002024-01-17T06:05:40.702-08:00Freedom School: The Question of Palestine<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> English professors Yumi Lee, Mary Mullen, and Jesse Schwartz will lead <a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/scholarship/centers/peace-justice/events/freedom.html">a Freedom School session</a> on Thursday, January 25 at 10:00 am in St. David's Room titled, "The Question of Palestine." <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5px; letter-spacing: 0.155px;">This session borrows its title from the scholar and writer Edward Said, whose 1979 book </span><u style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.5px; letter-spacing: 0.155px;">The Question of Palestine</u><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5px; letter-spacing: 0.155px;"> sought to elucidate the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for American readers and outline possibilities for peace. This question has taken on a renewed urgency today, as escalating war in Gaza has claimed thousands of lives and displaced millions of civilians. What does it look like to contend with the question of Palestine in the present day? This workshop invites participants to learn together, engage in facilitated dialogue, and consider our own roles in seeking justice and engendering peace.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNSalQ5jxDYGRUt9dazWEj_sdNfG1Hr6TfXxlup6r_syazD9kBfP-Y6Z8g8mJ6ZmabHnErgcV_9SJckd1UiXlXzx2bU1n0jpA1xo5oWGNE7zL-9t0dv51E8clwZIVSwhnSv1_YarDlwSfNCZJSLiO5cScKJeEthCjRPmww_jZ1HDtizEYNoYPTix67jKWu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="171" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNSalQ5jxDYGRUt9dazWEj_sdNfG1Hr6TfXxlup6r_syazD9kBfP-Y6Z8g8mJ6ZmabHnErgcV_9SJckd1UiXlXzx2bU1n0jpA1xo5oWGNE7zL-9t0dv51E8clwZIVSwhnSv1_YarDlwSfNCZJSLiO5cScKJeEthCjRPmww_jZ1HDtizEYNoYPTix67jKWu=w373-h640" width="373" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-53900181153165581732024-01-16T11:26:00.000-08:002024-01-16T11:26:54.734-08:00BIPOC Affinity Dinner: Thursday, January 25<p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The English Department is holding an affinity dinner for BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) students and faculty on </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Thursday, Jan 25 from 6-8 PM at the Refectory</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">. 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With the aim of expanding on that effort, our DEI committee would like to provide another update on some of the works that we are currently reading or have recently read that touch on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.</p><p>We're interested in reading books that change, challenge, and expand our thinking on what's happening in our lives and in the world around us. We hope you'll find some exciting or intriguing titles on this list. For those interested in viewing more suggestions, we encourage you to revisit our earlier lists of recommended titles (<a href="https://villanovaenglish.blogspot.com/2023/04/dei-what-were-reading-now.html" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="https://villanovaenglish.blogspot.com/2020/06/want-to-learn-more-about-black-lives.html" target="_blank">here</a>). You may also want to explore Falvey Library's diversity and inclusion <a href="https://library.villanova.edu/research/subject-guides/diversity-and-inclusion" target="_blank">subject guide</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Adrienne Perry: I’ve finished two books in the last week that I’m still thinking about. The first is <i>Interior Chinatown</i> by Charles Yu. The second is <i>After the Lights Go Out</i> by John Vercher. I’d heard of Yu’s book before I picked it up (it won the National Book Award in 2020), but I was eager to see how he used the screenplay format and, more importantly, how he wrote about Asian stereotypes, race, and assimilation. The book is about these topics and a lot more. It’s funny, but also really searing. John Vercher is a Philadelphia-based writer and a mixed-race writer, like me. I was eager to read about Xavier “Scarecrow” Wallace, a thirty-something MMA fighter who is suffering from memory loss brought on by his years of fighting. There’s so much happening in this terrific book, but one of the things I found myself most moved by was Xavier’s relationship with his white father, whose racist attitudes rear their ugly head as he struggles with his own memory loss in the form of dementia. The ending is totally gutting. Highly recommend both! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHuI8hOD9LK3Ynvb6umdUAbCUCsbLkf7nQIdhBJn-TtPRVzTRMB3Sf7bQErLmv-zHpGiBfOs5XuJR7QaXPjwW1N9ylOujBLL3F6gyN5Pk7h4OLRu1NhHR6Qkv77-n3M55bo5NwyjzwXh2XjZyUNgh3VO8H3NW8XeSKh5L-X5ADZJBAB32lO2oYKcGYUoa/s450/after%20the%20lights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="307" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHuI8hOD9LK3Ynvb6umdUAbCUCsbLkf7nQIdhBJn-TtPRVzTRMB3Sf7bQErLmv-zHpGiBfOs5XuJR7QaXPjwW1N9ylOujBLL3F6gyN5Pk7h4OLRu1NhHR6Qkv77-n3M55bo5NwyjzwXh2XjZyUNgh3VO8H3NW8XeSKh5L-X5ADZJBAB32lO2oYKcGYUoa/s320/after%20the%20lights.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8NAAw23gLcmnDP_0msCG7WOQV7k1wi_F1c1nzINfMw1znqYXSaRV1W5GVAh0RBDAQuY66DZV5DWRBWgyYHoZHFt-x7nRuSjeBIibPEmnGb8Y8P3p7we7czej6bXjSkpU86WbnK07B1o3FIa9eKdkc2YTcT_qiSRKQcFOj87IflJTcNMdaMQinhPQiPErj/s450/interior%20chinatown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="292" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8NAAw23gLcmnDP_0msCG7WOQV7k1wi_F1c1nzINfMw1znqYXSaRV1W5GVAh0RBDAQuY66DZV5DWRBWgyYHoZHFt-x7nRuSjeBIibPEmnGb8Y8P3p7we7czej6bXjSkpU86WbnK07B1o3FIa9eKdkc2YTcT_qiSRKQcFOj87IflJTcNMdaMQinhPQiPErj/s320/interior%20chinatown.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p>Mary Mullen: Energized by the Palestine Writes Literature Festival which I attended this September, I’m reading Palestinian literature translated from Arabic. First, Ibtisam Azem’s <i>The Book of Disappearance</i>—a speculative novel that wonders what would happen if one day all the Palestinian people vanished from Israel. This imagined disappearance highlights Palestinian survival despite ongoing colonial violence, on the one hand, and questions the logic of colonialism, on the other. Second, I hope to read Adania Shibli’s <i>Touch and We Are All Equally Far From Love</i>. I read her novel, Minor Detail, a few years ago and it still haunts me and shapes my thinking so I very much look forward to reading her other writing. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNygHuOEi8ylGy5LOkZNJBbDXbVwr7ujOxOK0D4LPP4lLARp8G6negjRlOVBhjgq7H2lc55D5QfwqeffBJsg9wegBkm1FplZrjWp2FVRZINZBzb3T1RH5H7a-A3GxqHsQAlb_-9XuqmYDKwH9k5OVuGHd8SSYfKVdyjvt9AnNFXk2adu_bk0QRogI91x6y/s400/book%20of%20disappearance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNygHuOEi8ylGy5LOkZNJBbDXbVwr7ujOxOK0D4LPP4lLARp8G6negjRlOVBhjgq7H2lc55D5QfwqeffBJsg9wegBkm1FplZrjWp2FVRZINZBzb3T1RH5H7a-A3GxqHsQAlb_-9XuqmYDKwH9k5OVuGHd8SSYfKVdyjvt9AnNFXk2adu_bk0QRogI91x6y/s320/book%20of%20disappearance.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_cZWQoSCAgKIImAQfJFLkOpiVFf_Ez1kF2juryvg2Oy6Apus2QuDr83kt9zayzfxre6ur-tBl6Mro2v75OSdcC1pWLRKoGFla6_K4-jNSZRfBZ1WnhPc6vi1BRZ1Gf4oDmCcuqhNzL3AHfKgkvs4tEDjfaQIPev2a0e5p9Kzjasd-mmGfmBhGXUpfjtA-/s1995/we-are-all-equally-far-from-love-9781566568630_hr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1995" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_cZWQoSCAgKIImAQfJFLkOpiVFf_Ez1kF2juryvg2Oy6Apus2QuDr83kt9zayzfxre6ur-tBl6Mro2v75OSdcC1pWLRKoGFla6_K4-jNSZRfBZ1WnhPc6vi1BRZ1Gf4oDmCcuqhNzL3AHfKgkvs4tEDjfaQIPev2a0e5p9Kzjasd-mmGfmBhGXUpfjtA-/s320/we-are-all-equally-far-from-love-9781566568630_hr.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p>Yumi Lee: Ursula K. LeGuin, <i>The Wizard of Earthsea</i> trilogy: a beautifully written, completely engrossing tale that transports you to another world that then refracts back onto our own. The first fantasy series about a boy going to a wizard school; still one of the only fantasy series with a hero who’s not white. Come for the talking dragons, stay for one of the most inspirational stories of personal growth through hardship that you’ll ever read.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpvokgDzPhOe56PZ6RZM4ih7xm1ByBLfZ4NWuJ_zcTmX9adg1O8D3K6xfhti3MCOPCMvCl1D252prmVDUoq5hkrdX7-w8NMihsdfK4KR_vjp-JEHdtjtHEBtgA9EaZ_0deM-JVxEEqjrHNphVFSe9vGlXE2-ZNLgHuYfdvtKPp0Ci6L-1458I0Gxrw3_A/s347/AWizardOfEarthsea(1stEd).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpvokgDzPhOe56PZ6RZM4ih7xm1ByBLfZ4NWuJ_zcTmX9adg1O8D3K6xfhti3MCOPCMvCl1D252prmVDUoq5hkrdX7-w8NMihsdfK4KR_vjp-JEHdtjtHEBtgA9EaZ_0deM-JVxEEqjrHNphVFSe9vGlXE2-ZNLgHuYfdvtKPp0Ci6L-1458I0Gxrw3_A/s320/AWizardOfEarthsea(1stEd).jpg" width="231" /></a></div><p>Travis Foster: Feeling hopeless as the mass destruction and killing in Gaza grows more tragic by the day, I’ve been reading Palestinian poetry: a literature that stands witness to the miracle of survival against overwhelming odds. I’ve returned several times to Mahmoud Darwish’s “<a href="http://www.identityofthesoul.com/Media/WhiteLilies_English.pdf" target="_blank">A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies</a>.” Written at the end of a decade during which Darwish had frequently been arrested by Israeli authorities, the poem opts to imagine peace by embracing the humanity of its eponymous IDF soldier, Darwish’s would-be enemy. As the soldier reflects upon a Palestinian peasant he had shot to death, he gradually comes to realize:</p><p>I need a kind heart, not a bullet.</p><p>I need a bright day, not a mad, fascist moment of triumph.</p><p>I need a child to cherish a day of laughter, not a weapon of war.</p><p>I came to live for rising suns, not to witness their setting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbuGfE2Q-tt5PBzEqxokzP8J-7Oi24UyB1Nld7YM0pABNSIJytClToMfKvGAdT_9ArX1xgSZMh5PXVfqPFszju6Ji-wXCjBBmYO0xbGFBnRgUvtpMJjkGuOBm3V-YhgzaSDkOsUOjJuoppgIV4YpaWUQpcqk2wD2BGRhHucblupzOBAZGEtKphS_5kbtgJ/s2000/darwish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="2000" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbuGfE2Q-tt5PBzEqxokzP8J-7Oi24UyB1Nld7YM0pABNSIJytClToMfKvGAdT_9ArX1xgSZMh5PXVfqPFszju6Ji-wXCjBBmYO0xbGFBnRgUvtpMJjkGuOBm3V-YhgzaSDkOsUOjJuoppgIV4YpaWUQpcqk2wD2BGRhHucblupzOBAZGEtKphS_5kbtgJ/s320/darwish.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-77668074907642774942023-12-06T12:47:00.000-08:002023-12-06T13:18:33.839-08:00Lisa Sewell, "The Land of Nod"<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Lisa Sewell's poem, "The Land of Nod" was published on <span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">t</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">he Academy of American Poets poem-a-day site on December 6. <a href="https://poets.org/poem/land-nod-0">Read the full poem here</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 12pt;"> Nature Writing Workshop visiting Rushton Farm's saw-whet owl banding station.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 16px;">The primary objective of owl banding is to provide data to answer questions about Saw-whet Owl health, migration, and habitat. 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caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">oin us for an exciting reading and conversation with two phenomenal authors! Thomas Swick is a veteran travel writer, newspaper editor, and Villanova alum celebrating the publication of his new memoir,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Falling into Place</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Ariel Delgado Dixon is the author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Don't Say We Didn't Warn You</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sourland</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, forthcoming from Random House. Swick and Delgado Dixon will share their paths to becoming writers, as well as their varied and interesting experiences, from Swick’s life behind the Iron Curtain to Delgado Dixon’s work as a farmer. This event is a good fit for anyone interested in travel writing, becoming a novelist, journalism, and editing (for starters). Refreshments provided! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqLosZCa5wnWt5yb2tQ6JKNSEwCgUOw6pOj0XcmfGkoRQGg_l5Sys-7D1DqIVX2mhR1k_McHaTaprwO1mN3cl3D4V84ExnbzuOQoWKLE4hAXobrbhCD5kq5V6SpVrU2Ywrt8LbXRETflyEUsBYhZNaf1qd3B08QV4MbWnP5P61JemlXya5-XmnMIrogRJn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqLosZCa5wnWt5yb2tQ6JKNSEwCgUOw6pOj0XcmfGkoRQGg_l5Sys-7D1DqIVX2mhR1k_McHaTaprwO1mN3cl3D4V84ExnbzuOQoWKLE4hAXobrbhCD5kq5V6SpVrU2Ywrt8LbXRETflyEUsBYhZNaf1qd3B08QV4MbWnP5P61JemlXya5-XmnMIrogRJn=w493-h640" width="493" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-73325983061789130142023-11-01T07:08:00.003-07:002023-11-01T07:08:20.330-07:00Teach-in on Palestine: Solidarity, Mon. Nov. 6 <p>There will be a second teach-in on Palestine focused on Solidarity taking place on Monday, November 6 in the Driscoll Auditorium. The event will take place from 4:00-6:00 pm and will be followed by a student-led strategizing session from 6:00-7:00 pm. Come with questions. There will be pizza!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhczCQVZNPWEWu-7iqTZ99fPDdvVX-zXeMeEnahPcodhV2YeB4vAdUmQrtrHan1r0cKnC7qWjH8i9eCqjFo5QCeuy9SgEmB17bMC9MzP4jEdOtMsJaIKx6r4FpobGsSSHOqwbKRdxSIU6qWVFzUgBiC2FTfhCJBe4PKClO-1fig8e4-C9TkE98zN3jCouN0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhczCQVZNPWEWu-7iqTZ99fPDdvVX-zXeMeEnahPcodhV2YeB4vAdUmQrtrHan1r0cKnC7qWjH8i9eCqjFo5QCeuy9SgEmB17bMC9MzP4jEdOtMsJaIKx6r4FpobGsSSHOqwbKRdxSIU6qWVFzUgBiC2FTfhCJBe4PKClO-1fig8e4-C9TkE98zN3jCouN0=w493-h640" width="493" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-67292428975082627782023-10-31T14:23:00.002-07:002023-10-31T14:23:27.605-07:00Speculative Fiction in Historical Perspective, Wed. Nov. 8 6:00-7:15 pm<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Please join us on November 8th, 2023 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. for an in-person event at Larson Kelly Auditorium in Driscoll Hall. This is a collaboration between the Lepage Center, the English Department, and Global Interdisciplinary Studies to consider what speculative fiction can tell us about real world history.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizLI1fgkBl1awDXOJbtjY7Syw9RqwysqjRETx0vqrgTnty2ngL_L1dHKBxO5_9ppMpjVoLStfJSbusuZp0XzpVQu17l2vPoEY0VkE6ZS7dDFQpQ8yOkCyQZPOleN1p1EpRT_m7HHvISR4dSqKUmL8nblqsrVRdsYaXV93DE6c_pQeuaItLDwFJnuM9TmnI" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizLI1fgkBl1awDXOJbtjY7Syw9RqwysqjRETx0vqrgTnty2ngL_L1dHKBxO5_9ppMpjVoLStfJSbusuZp0XzpVQu17l2vPoEY0VkE6ZS7dDFQpQ8yOkCyQZPOleN1p1EpRT_m7HHvISR4dSqKUmL8nblqsrVRdsYaXV93DE6c_pQeuaItLDwFJnuM9TmnI" width="320" /></a></div><br />Science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalyptic fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, alternate history, weird fiction, climate fiction, all their overlap and subgenres come out of a milieu of real world experiences for their authors, shaped by the structures within which they live their lives. From gothic horror to Afrofuturism, writers and artists have responded to the real world by creating fictional ones that speak to the conditions of society, different understandings of what has come before, and conceiving what might come next. From Mary Shelley to Ursula K. Le Guin to N.K. Jemisin; from Jules Verne to Samuel R. Delany to Kim Stanley Robinson; all these writers, their peers, critics, and more have been living and working through history. When we look at their work, what does it say to us?<p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This event will be moderated by Dr. Maghan Keita,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/history/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=maghan.keita@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Professor of History and Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Founding Director of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Africana Studies at VIllanova</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Our panel will be comprised of Dr. Heather Hicks,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/english/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=heather.hicks@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Professor and Chair of English at Villanova</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and an expert on Post-apocalyptic fiction and Gender in Post-Modern fiction; Dr. Travis Foster,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/english/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=travis.foster@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Associate Professor of English and Academic Director of Gender and Women's Studies at Villanova</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">who expertise includes Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Genre; and Dr. Patricia Lott,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.ursinus.edu/live/profiles/4589-patricia-lott" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Assistant Professor of American Studies, African American and Africana Studies, and English at Ursinus University</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, whose expertise includes Afrofuturism, Emancipation, Public Collective Memory, and more.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This event is free, open to the public, and ACS Approved.</span></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-48321773910155539802023-10-30T13:15:00.001-07:002023-10-30T13:15:15.944-07:00Professor Michael Dowdy's Tell Me About Your Bad Guys forthcoming spring 2025<p>Professor Michael Dowdy just signed a book contract with University of Nebraska Press. They will publish his collection of essays on fathering in anxious times, <i>Tell Me About Your Bad Guys</i>, in spring 2025. For more about this collection and his other essays, see his <a href="https://michael-dowdy.com/lyric-essays/">personal website.</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheQzbSX-YQ0ZpJjk3ZyokVnXbhou6AngE74-2JKeFKb0QKEYDf9fc7rxnIjhxlBWfCOjLQqGLGVoQgn_4ioedLEu2n4zOiNoc6H9Lk7HeXyhERgEGP0PhDDRphJcyMJcxfd4Am7aNh8R1AuhkoiJHQ66_Rd_eKhNRGOawpfLe5OoL3SjKdScLB_TblXCBA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1713" data-original-width="1922" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheQzbSX-YQ0ZpJjk3ZyokVnXbhou6AngE74-2JKeFKb0QKEYDf9fc7rxnIjhxlBWfCOjLQqGLGVoQgn_4ioedLEu2n4zOiNoc6H9Lk7HeXyhERgEGP0PhDDRphJcyMJcxfd4Am7aNh8R1AuhkoiJHQ66_Rd_eKhNRGOawpfLe5OoL3SjKdScLB_TblXCBA" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664456755116041444.post-2344446729691531102023-10-30T13:10:00.004-07:002023-11-01T08:27:58.607-07:00Meet the English Department’s Mike Malloy and Amanda Eliades!<p>By Ariel Hooks</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I had a chance to interview Graduate English Program Coordinator Mike Malloy and Undergraduate English Senior Administrative Assistant Amanda Eliades and am thrilled to introduce them to current and prospective students in the English department. I talked to them about their respective roles within the English department, common questions students ask them, Villanova resources students might not know about, and what they’re currently reading. Read on to learn more about these wonderful people.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 48px;">Q: What is your role within the English department? What does a daily schedule look like for you?</b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVj3vSGJdH5X7lmMDg3kM7uXS78Vq_x0rqwcs0ACEO2yLQHePMFs-mDVoec1daDUJcsrmRWC1dyRNUplQtbFnmyNU7oJKEl24-MKS_tQWazc3pHq4z6GhdgC86tUm5vNPSWVC6x6aJdPAHZxlhzbvT8HRjt8oapr51w3HMMQyrzb6ssyLYf4-b-_IvBod8" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="584" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVj3vSGJdH5X7lmMDg3kM7uXS78Vq_x0rqwcs0ACEO2yLQHePMFs-mDVoec1daDUJcsrmRWC1dyRNUplQtbFnmyNU7oJKEl24-MKS_tQWazc3pHq4z6GhdgC86tUm5vNPSWVC6x6aJdPAHZxlhzbvT8HRjt8oapr51w3HMMQyrzb6ssyLYf4-b-_IvBod8=w302-h400" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Malloy</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Mike has many roles within the department, but he mostly works with the English graduate program and its students. As the Graduate Program Coordinator, he tackles anything related to the logistics of the program, including recruiting prospective students, helping students understand the program, answering any logistical or administrative questions from newly-admitted and prospective students, connecting students with faculty, promoting the program on the English department’s website, orienting newly-admitted students to the program, and more. If students need help with or have questions about internships, alumni, careers, or graduate student-specific resources on campus, Mike can help with all of this, too! In addition to the many hats he wears, Mike is also the internship coordinator for the graduate English program and produces the alumni newsletter, and he organizes the alumni career panel for undergraduate students interested in English. His daily schedule primarily focuses on directing students to the correct resources and ensuring that every graduate English student is notified about funding, deadlines, department policies, and when bagels are available in the English department (SAC 402, every other Tuesday!)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilq8Kzz9OguiV3lWNpjFXGfrUiCULiH0Ttpf4BttfyftycelMfuN5i456esOs031gz-i7Ouu18S9v1VU8H6DxsS4fj_PgCyb1eTA3YGKH3lF77gXki5PZnOnh9wE1SnvU0i0nr8avC7Clu3RLS_28VuQ9rq_MJzfQWCE8XlpVFPu1zpjBPSAE3QWKiqn_R" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="604" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilq8Kzz9OguiV3lWNpjFXGfrUiCULiH0Ttpf4BttfyftycelMfuN5i456esOs031gz-i7Ouu18S9v1VU8H6DxsS4fj_PgCyb1eTA3YGKH3lF77gXki5PZnOnh9wE1SnvU0i0nr8avC7Clu3RLS_28VuQ9rq_MJzfQWCE8XlpVFPu1zpjBPSAE3QWKiqn_R=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amanda Eliades</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Amanda helps with the entire undergraduate English experience, including advising students; assigning advisors; reaching out to all new English majors and minors with an introductory email including English-specific resources, access to the internal site (english.villanova.edu), flyers for upcoming English events, career resources, clubs and publications on campus, internships of the week, and more; assisting with faculty and course scheduling; and acting as the primary advisor for all English minors. Amanda also keeps the English department stocked with goodies and treats! She matches new English majors with a peer advisor, or a fellow English major from the English Advisory Council. Any English major from sophomore to senior can serve as a peer advisor and can join the council; they hold pizza parties and fun events for English students. Much of Amanda’s daily schedule focuses on talking to students and coordinating events for the English program, including procuring catering and flyers. A fun fact about Amanda is that she helped co-found the English Poetry Society at Villanova when she was an undergraduate here.</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Q: What can students come to you for? What are some of the most common questions you encounter from students?</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: 48px;"><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students can come to Mike for any technical question, such as credits received and credits still needed, policies, deadlines, funding, academic standing, and more. He is the point person for graduate English students interacting with Villanova University as a whole; if you get an email from the university or from other departments that you just don’t understand, Mike can help you understand it. He’s looking out for graduate English students all across the university! On the undergraduate side, Mike typically helps with internships, careers, and department resources. He understands that “you’re a student and have a lot of information coming at you and you can’t focus.” Having someone available to direct you to a resource is always a positive!</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: 48px;"><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students can come to Amanda for anything they have questions about. She can direct students to the appropriate resource or will find the answer and relay it back. The most common questions she receives are if a course counts for the English major/minor or if something looks correct on the degree audit. She’s always happy to chat.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: 48px;"><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Q: What’s one Villanova or English-specific resources that students might not know about, but should?</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The binders produced by graduate students for their Professional Research Option (PRO) course are in the conference room in SAC 402 and are recommended by Mike. These binders contain the final reports of students who took the PRO course and are a detailed outline of a career in which a Masters in English is useful, as well as a report on the state of the industry, possible career trajectories, a model resume and cover letter, a compilation of research on currently open positions in the field, and more. Interviewees for these reports speak candidly about their field, so they’re a great way to get the inside scoop on a potential career. Mike also recommends the bimonthly bagels and coffee and the YouTube archive of previous Literary Festivals, which goes back 20 years!<b style="text-indent: 48px;"> </b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: 48px;"><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Amanda says that most students know about the career center but don’t realize how individualized and helpful it is. The name might sound daunting, but the environment is incredibly friendly! Amanda believes the career center should be used by students more, as the career center can help every student, offers highly individualized support and services, points students to career-specific events, and maintains alumni lists that students can use to connect with alumni. Each department also offers personalized CV/resume/cover letter creation and revision based on your specific needs and the industry’s standards.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Another resource that students might not know about is the internal site for the English department: english.villanova.edu. A button on the right side of the page is labeled “Current Student Resources” and takes current English students to the SharePoint for everything English department-related at Villanova. The SharePoint includes the academic calendar and department handbook, a model plan/timeline of courses to take as an English major, internships, extracurriculars, local literary sites, record stores, bookstores, and a list of resources for getting published.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(One resource I also found over the summer is the CLAS Syllabus Archive, located <a href="https://villanova.sharepoint.com/sites/CLAS/SYLLABUS/SitePages/Home.aspx">here</a>. Find previous syllabi from any course in CLAS, professors and graduate courses included!)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Q: What are you currently reading?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For a couple of years, Mike has exclusively read fiction in the Irish language to immerse himself in the language. He’s active in local Irish-speaking circles and has a background in Irish Studies. He’s currently reading <i>Na Ríthe Beaga</i>, translated from French, which is a satirical novel about parents who put their kids on social media. It’s ominous from the get-go but is a great insight into the social media world.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Amanda is currently reading the <i>Practical Magic</i> series, but don’t give her any spoilers! She loves Sandra Bullock and wants to finish the series before watching the movie. I asked her if she thought any movie adaptation has been better than the book, and her answer was a resounding “There has been no instance where the movie was better than the book.” For Amanda, you get more context and background information from the book, and you can use your imagination – there’s nothing better than your imagination when you’re reading!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Mike Malloy can be emailed at <a href="mailto:michael.malloy@villanova.edu"><span class="s2" style="color: #0b4cb4; font-kerning: none;">michael.malloy@villanova.edu</span></a> and his desk is located to the left of the conference room. Amanda Eliades can be emailed at <a href="mailto:amanda.eliades@villanova.edu"><span class="s2" style="color: #0b4cb4; font-kerning: none;">amanda.eliades@villanova.edu</span></a> and her desk is located directly to the right when you enter SAC 402.</span></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p>Mary Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00055450624233856945noreply@blogger.com