“Rocks, Caves, and Wonders on the Eighteenth-Century Stage” February 5, 2020A lecture by Misty Anderson will be held Friday, Feb. 7, from 3:15-4:15 p.m. in Guilford Parlor. 1772...Community Postings·
“The Urgency of Pleasure: Theorizing a Rhetoric of Pleasure in Contemporary Cookbooks” February 2, 2020Carrie Helms Tippen, assistant professor of English at Chatham University, will deliver a lecture, “The Urgency of Pleasure:...Events·
“Consuming the Past: Food Metaphors in the Intergenerational Food Memoir” January 25, 2020The presence of food metaphors in food memoirs might seem so ubiquitous as to be mundane or cliché....Events·
Undergraduate- and graduate-student writing awards now accepting entries January 24, 2020The Department of English’s annual prize competition is now open for submissions. More than $1,500 in prize money...Student Life·
“Midsommar: Thing Theory” January 10, 2020The Department of English will host Robert Spadoni, associate professor of English, for a lecture titled “Midsommar: Thing...Events·
“Preparing the Table: Reconstituting Cultural Identity through Cookbooks” December 5, 2019Case Western Reserve University’s Department of English will host a lecture by graduate student Brita Thielen Friday, Dec....Events·
“Pulling from the Headlines: Poetry Written After Media” October 31, 2019Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a roundtable poetry discussion hosted by the...Events·
“Against Commercial Culture” October 29, 2019Case Western Reserve University’s Department of English will host a lecture by Michael Clune, the Samuel B. and...Events·
Faculty Work-in-Progress—“Domestic Horrors in the Age of Revolution: Acid Throwing in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo” October 24, 2019In recent years, Europe and Asia have seen a surge in acid attacks that have increased public awareness...Events·
“The Vanishing Point of Existence: Kierkegaard and the Ethics of the Novel” October 18, 2019The Department of English will host Yi-Ping Ong, associate professor of comparative thought and literature at Johns Hopkins...Events·