Category: English
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Stephanie Pietros, Mt. St. Mary College – Shakespearean Satire
Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975, but satire is hardly a new concept. Stephanie Pietros, a English professor at Mount Saint Mary College, presents a close read of Shakespeare’s Othello as contemporary theater attendees might have interpreted some inside jokes. Dr. Stephanie Pietros is Assistant Professor of English at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh,…
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Douglas Kerr, University of Hong Kong – Modern Insights on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Viewing Sherlock Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through a modern lens opens up some very interesting interpretations. In today’s Academic Minute, Douglas Kerr, professor of English and dean of the faculty of arts at the University of Hong Kong, discusses the legendary author’s work with a contemporary context. Douglas Kerr was born…
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Dan Chelotti, Elms College – Writer’s Block
Sometimes you know what needs to be said, and you know why you need to say it – but putting it into words becomes an intractable path. Dan Chelotti, an assistant professor of English at Elms College, is delving into writer’s block in an effort to quantify this difficulty so many of us have experienced.…
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Anna Leahy, Chapman University – Scientific Poetry
Poetry and science are areas of academia you’d assume have little to no overlap. But, Anna Leahy, an English professor at Chapman University, thinks otherwise. Anna Leahy‘s poetry collection Constituents of Matter won the Wick Poetry Prize and was published by Kent State University Press in 2007. Her chapbook Turns about a Point is available…