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Student Academic Work Showcase: Spring 2022
For last semester’s ENG-351: Satire, students were asked to write a brief, scathing satire on any topic of their choosing and then reflect on the process. In response to this prompt, Cate Granskog wrote a satirical syllabus—featuring its very own reading list and an oddly familiar late work policy. You can access the entire work…
The Lives of Double Majors
The following collection of interviews are intended to focus on the lives of English majors who also have another major, with a student from each grade giving their personal insight on how the experience has gone for them so far. This collection of interviews was conducted by Isabel Hidalgo. Aria Hroma—Class of ‘25 Secondary Education…
Senior Spotlight: Crystal Wallace
This Senior Spotlight aims to focus on a fourth-year student in our department who has gone above and beyond in their time at UP. Whether that is through academics, extracurriculars, or community service, our first student to be featured has demonstrated their dedication and commitment to learning and the UP community. What follows is the…
Student Academic Work Showcase: Cate Granskog
In response to the prompt “tell a true story,” Cate Granskog wrote a compelling personal tale for this semester’s ENG-311 course—Writing Workshop: Nonfiction. You can access the entire work below: To read the complete essay, please hit the download button below:…
Student Academic Work Showcase: Riley Eyring
Riley Eyring wrote his outstanding interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, “Personal Identity and Particles: The Relativity of Time, Internal Fluidity, and Social Progress in Orlando,” as a final paper in the course Studies in Fiction in Fall 2020. You can access the entire work below: To read the complete essay, please hit the download button…
Course Preview for Fall 2021
At last! It would be best not to jinx anything, but in-person classes are looking pretty probable for the coming fall semester. Now is the time to mentally prepare ourselves to ditch the sweatpants, and it is also a great time to decide what English classes you are interested in taking next semester. Below are…
Professor John McDonald: Free Your Mind And The Rest Will Follow
On Feb. 11, Professor John McDonald delivered his keynote speech via Zoom, to honor the 13 new members of UP’s Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society. What follows is an exploration of the self, and how we as individuals make connections and judgements—timely in this period of Zoomed everything where we have ample time to be…
Q&A with Jerry Harp
Mary Szybist and Jerry Harp are a married couple, and are professors at Lewis and Clark College. Additionally, they are award winning poets, with backgrounds in theology and literature. Their poetry explores the catholic iconography and tradition in inventive and subversive ways, and their unique voices tell stories and discuss faith—with talk of doubt, love,…
Quarantine Reads
For most, quarantine has meant disconnection, disruption to normal life, and isolation. Quarantine has been arguably difficult for pretty much everyone, affecting education, salaries, unemployment, and connection with family members and friends—especially older and/or more vulnerable ones. As a less extreme but still upsetting situation, us bibliophiles are in the position of not being able…