The new school year is well underway, and it’s almost time for another visiting author for our Readings and Lectures Series! On October 2, author and biographer Tracy Daugherty will speak in the bookstore at 7:30 pm. Daugherty’s most recent work is The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion, published in 2015. This…
When now-alumna Caroline Holyoak addressed her class in a valedictory speech during Commencement last May, she recounted the lessons learned in her English 112 class before 3,000 UP graduates, faculty, staff, and family. With an English and Spanish double major and Psychology minor, Holyoak managed to find time to work as a Writing Assistant in…
How the English Department is adjusting to life in the newest building on campus Dundon-Berchtold Hall opened its doors to students this week and held its first classes on Monday, finally fulfilling the demand for additional classroom space to meet the needs of the growing student population. Crews have been working through the summer to…
So…have you heard about Writers? If you’ve interacted with me in any capacity over the last four months, you probably do, because I’ve been talking about it basically nonstop since January. If you’ve been lucky enough to avoid me for that long, then let me fill you in: Writers is a student-led literary journal featuring art…
As our resident medievalist, Dr. Cara Hersh helps animate older texts for newer audiences, persuading contemporary students to take a closer look at the simultaneously age-old and currently relevant insights distilled in some of her favorite works. She enables thought expansion and rhetorical rabbit holes through her job, and opts for an English department mindset…
I don’t know about you, but after a spectacular string of sunny days, it’s hard readjusting to the norm of Portland’s rainy drizzle. While we all wait with crossed fingers in anticipation of summer, make sure you don’t miss your next opportunity to hear from talented writer and poet, Laura Read, who’s coming to campus…
On March 11th, 1744: Sotheby’s English auction house in London held its first ever auction of books. They came from the private collection of a Baron of Alderley. Originally named Baker and Leigh, this auction house claims to have sold the library that Napoleon took into exile at St. Helena. It not holds locations internationally,…
It’s not every day that you get a chance to hear a National Book Award-winning author who’s from Ireland speak here on campus. But next week, you’ll get precisely that opportunity as author Colum McCann joins us here on The Bluff at 7 pm, Wednesday, February 20th, in Buckley Center Auditorium for a public lecture…
On February 11, 1942: The first “Archie” comic book debuted! These comics have sold over 2 billion copies world-wide, and are published in dozen different languages. It consists of a variety of action-adventure super heroes and is the inspiration for the show “Riverdale”! The show “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” is also based on a character…
On February 4th, 1922: The first part of Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Garden Party” appeared in the Saturday Westminster Gazette! It would be published serially in three parts through the month of February. It struggles with the ideas of class discrimination, and addresses a blindness of the upper classes to their own privileges. These struggles…