by Ana Fonseca In advance of registration, here’s the inside scoop from professors on what we can expect from their courses next semester: Professor Crawford on English 309- Writing Workshop: Fiction What are some the writing skills students can expect to learn in this course? Students can expect to explore short story elements such…
Freshman Spotlight: Meet Megan Macker
by Danielle Childs Every August, the university receives students with new passions, skills, and perspectives—these students must certainly be the lifeblood of our department. Reading lists may share similarities year to year, but the discussions surrounding them never could. I have to assume that it remains a thorough joy for a professor to read a…
Seeking Equilibrium: Internship Advice from a Fellow English Major
by Erika Murphy Despite the fact that I have a reassuring advisor and a relaxed father, I caught the contagious what-am-I-doing-with-my-life anxiety early on last year. Weekly internship updates had started coming. New to the English major, I suddenly felt pressure to determine the path from sophomore year to ultimate career. And so, I did…
A Burst, a Verb, a Sprint: An Interview with Brian Doyle
by Ana Fonseca Maybe you’ve read one of his commentaries in The Beacon, or flipped through his work in Portland Magazine. He could even be on your syllabus for next week, or there’s a fair chance you’ve already met him. UP gem and resident writer, Brian Doyle, and his like “a burst, a verb, a sprint”…
A New Year for Sigma Tau Delta
by Hannah Wilkes While many students at the University of Portland might be familiar with some of its more well-known honor societies, like Alpha Lambda Delta or Delta Epsilon Sigma, many students aren’t aware that the university has its very own English honor society: Sigma Tau Delta! While our STD chapter is fairly new, and…
Hyperfocus and the Like-Minded Soul: An Interview with Dan DeWeese
by Athena Lathos Photo Credit: http://www.dandeweese.net Dan DeWeese is the author of the novel You Don’t Love This Man, editor of Propeller, and one of the writers named “an emerging star in fiction” by Huffington Post Books. What’s more—he will be visiting the University of Portland this Monday (7:30 pm in Buckley Center 163). DeWeese’s work…
Welcome to a New Semester on the English Department Blog!
We’re back! After an extended summer, the UP English Department blog is back on. Our winning team of Contributing Editors this year includes Danielle Childs, Kevin Chung, Ana Fonseca, and Clare Munger, with Athena Lathos (pictured here) interning as Managing Editor for the Fall Semester. Feel free to email me, Dr. Brassard, Dept. Chair,…
Final Goodbyes
by Dorian Pacheco The English blog closes for summer as of today…thanks to the whole community of contributors, readers, and English-lovers for making this such a great year. Here’s a farewell post from Dorian P. whom you can thank for making sure EVERY post got onto the blog this year. Thanks, Dorian. Dr. Brassard will…
Dr. Larson’s Podcast: Dialectical Teaching in a Righteous Age
The English Department’s Dr. Larson gave a faculty talk this semester on the occasion of winning 2013’s campus teaching award. The Garaventa Center made a 22-minute podcast version of the talk, “Dialectical Teaching in a Righteous Age,” which examines our era’s habit of polarized thinking, and how we can be part of a change simply…
Reading On Into the Sunset: A Post-Graduate Syllabus
by Hannah Wilkes As English majors, there is one thing we can always count on being handed at the start of each new semester: a syllabus listing all of the books, poems, and/or plays to be read for the class. While finishing college provides a relief from all that school work, it also means the…