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Out & About: Stage Right holds its annual Heart of the Arts Gala
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At the Stage Right Gala.
Writing skill matters in the workforce.
Puns really matter to us over here in English.
I swore I would wield my powers only for good. Witness my latest faculty service project.
Let’s talk about books, old sport.
When You’ve Already Got a Major, But You Love Books (Seton Hill English)
When committee work is fun… making memes to support the English program.
My colleague Dr. Cusick bakes Irish soda bread every year to honor Saint Patrick’s Day.
There is a thing in literature, theme X.
I’m very happy that several students in my “World Drama” class chose to write about The Merchant of Venice in their latest paper. Almost as many also write about Nine. And several chose to write about both. The assignment asked students to make an intertextual argument — that is, I asked them to write an…
A professor examines why her students seem to act so helpless (essay)
This essay on college students acting helpless (Chronicle of Higher Education) struck a few chords. I put a lot of time into writing my course policies and assignment instructions. The students who want to know how they can earn a 99 instead of a 95 invariably ask really good questions that arise from their close…
Always Bet on Text
Graydon Hoare offers a rousing hymn to the virtues of text. Don’t get me wrong, I like me some illustrations, photos, movies and music. But text wins by a mile. Text is everything. My thoughts on this are quite absolute: text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period. Text is the oldest…
Out & About: Cabaret Theatre presents its ‘Cabbie Awards’
You can just make out Carolyn, Leigh, and me stacked up on the right edge of this picture. Carolyn won “Best Leading Actress in a Non-Musical” for The Miracle Worker, and I also got to present her with “Best Onstage Save” for some quick thinking (and dancing) during the gypsy scene in Man of La…
PrimeStage’s 1984: “It was very true to the book,” says Peter.
Five of us went to see PrimeStage’s 1984. Very well done! I wish I could have included this play in my “World Drama” class, or that I had thought to assign the novel in my “Memes and Fake News” class. When it comes to dystopian literature, the boy is better read than I was at…
What a great time everyone had at the “Cabbies.”
I know stuff must be important to people who don’t spend their evenings generating 1400-word memos.
In my defense, I broke that long email down so the recipient (my chair) really only has to read about three bullet points in order to grasp the “Action Item” section… but then I had to *write* all those “just in case this become important later” details, and corral them under increasingly woebegone subheads like…
That’s it my boy, throw the clickbait into the water, cast it wide.
A new study says young Americans have a broad definition of news
I expect that many of my students will be living the experiences documented in this study of how young people encounter news; nevertheless, it’s difficult to notice your own environment if you can’t compare it to *different* environments. Because I grew up with the three TV network news shows and the copy of The Washington…