Lafayette English

English Dept @LafCol. Into reading, writing, thinking, & sharing our latest news & interests.

[Cambridge University Press Bookshop @CUPBookshop]

Celebrating what would have been Kerouac's 99th birthday today with this book by Steve Belleto @LafEnglish
https://t.co/Do4voixZ7H

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Welcome to the new school year, everyone! We're thrilled to have new asst profs @jenwgilmore & @AwakeMik joining the English dept, @ParrishKathleen now as visiting prof, & newly promoted "Full Profs" Carrie Rohman & @MobyProf. Old #Pardee's keeping great company these days!

[Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms) @jbf1755]

Women.

[Lehigh English @LehighEnglish]

Friends of @LehighEnglish: join us in following @NaylorArchive! We can’t wait to see how this project develops.

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

One of our favorite views of the Quad—w/ #Pardee & @LafLib proudly featured among their handsome neighbors!

[Lafayette College @LafCol]

The Quad from above.

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

More news to come soon—stay tuned!

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

October will see @RossGay18 Laf English '96 on campus for a reading on Oct. 25: https://t.co/HVRUhsnlV5

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Meg's work is part of what's new this year in #Pardee. We also look forward to a couple of homecomings. First up, former Laf English professor @AlixOhlin will give a reading Sept. 23 as our Closs Writer-in-Residence: https://t.co/Brql3lkoQs

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Gearing up for a great new year in #Pardee, and Prof. Megan Fernandes is starting us in style w/ a remarkable poem in @NewYorker. Congratulations, Meg!

[B.R. Cohen @brcohen95]

Dammmm. When your friend's poem is @NewYorker. Read everything by #MeganFernandes, @LafCol @LafEnglish colleague. Read this one first: https://t.co/pmuKUpjt3K

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

We knew her when! https://t.co/14KBDao0aS

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Ps. If you need to warm up after all that ice cream, there will be free pizza for a Q&A w/ sam sax after the Jean Corrie reading. It’s your chance to nosh w/ a champion slam poet! #poetry

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Forget the weird weather: the Jean Corrie poetry reading is our official start of spring! Come hear student poets Mario Sanchez & Ryan Branch & contest judge sam sax read their work, & get free ice cream! Thurs 4/5 4:10pm in Wilson Rm, Pfenning #poetry #icecream #pardpride

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Congratulations to @MobyProf on the release of his new Cambridge Companion to the Lit of the American Renaissance! Little did Prof. March know when he got the bright idea to teach William Cullen Bryant’s poetry that it would come to this. https://t.co/YiZBTFqUas

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Marvelous new discovery by dept colleague emerita June Schlueter & her co-author Dennis McCarthy: a major manuscript source for Shakespeare! Great work, June & Dennis! https://t.co/9QR1PGoI1T

[Alison Byerly @alisonbyerly]

Professor emerita of English and former provost June Schlueter is featured in major story in NYT today! She is co-author of book outlining possible new source for Shakespeare's plays
#RollBard

https://t.co/LteHKA8moL

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

The book news keeps coming in #Pardee! Prof. Steve Belletto's latest book, American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960, has just been published by Cambridge. Congratulations, Steve! Read more here: https://t.co/mDh238LWXt

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Exciting news: @MobyProf’s Cambridge Companion to the Lit of the American Renaissance will be published next month! This joins Prof. Steve Belletto’s CC to the Beats (2017) in what seems like a dept specialty in producing impressive, accessible books. Congrats, Chris & Steve!

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

A bit of news now: congratulations to #Pardee neighbor Prof. Owen McLeod (philosophy), whose 1st poetry collection "Dream Kitchen" has just won the Vassar Miller Prize! The book is due out from UNT Press next year. @LafCol is a campus of great writers! https://t.co/aLnuvbw8nH

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

First day of the new semester, and the halls of #Pardee are humming once more! Stay tuned for news on much excellent programming this spring.

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

Leave it to Prof. Phillips to find a card catalog to pose beside! He's teaching 1 of 2 great sections of our gateway course in literary history this spring. We'll see what new ideas (& old cards?) he's brought back from @rarebookschool! https://t.co/XygbiqWXRm

[Lafayette English @LafEnglish]

@somelaterdate @PetervanManen @LafCol On this kind of matter, we tend to let linguistic nature take its course. If enough faculty decry the double space and if enough students listen, that will accomplish more than we ever could. #writingacrossthecurriculum #nohorseinthisrace #exceptProfMarshsinglespaced