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Evan McKenna | Thursday, January 23, 2020
If you were to ask my parents to recount any memories they have of my second grade experience, they might have a tough time digging up any stories. Why, you ask? Holding back tears, my mother might explain to you why I went off the grid that year: “When Evan was seven, he locked himself
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, January 27, 2019
Joseph A. Buttigieg, William R. Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of English and retired director of the Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program at Notre Dame, died at 71 on Sunday, son Pete Buttigieg announced in a Facebook post. “As a friend, colleague, thinker, and educator, he touched countless lives, and we hope to find a way to honor
Observer Staff Report | Friday, March 24, 2017
Edward Vasta, professor emeritus of English at Notre Dame, died Monday at the age of 89, according to a University press release. Vasta served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 through 1948, and earned a Fulbright Scholarship after graduating from Notre Dame in 1952 and returned to the University as a faculty member in 1958.
Megan Valley | Friday, February 24, 2017
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi has always felt like a stranger; she thinks she always will, she said. “I was born right after the Iranian revolution,” Van der Vliet Oloomi, assistant professor of English, said. “My mother is Iranian and my father’s British-Dutch … they were forced to exit the country, sort of overnight. “I
Izzy Kehner | Friday, April 8, 2016
Saint Mary’s hosted author Karen Lee Boren on Thursday for a reading and signing of her recently-released collection of short stories, “Mother Tongue.” “‘[Mother Tongue]’ is a book of hope in that it is a sort of literary Cinderella story,” Boren said. “It renewed my belief in literary humanity.” Boren said this novel was submitted
Clare Kossler | Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Wednesday, the Creative Writing Program hosted a reading in the Hammes Bookstore by alumna Emily Grecki, recipient of the 2014 Nicholas Sparks Prize and nominee for the 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Intro Journals Project. In the introduction for her former student, English professor Valerie Sayers said Grecki has a talent for surprising her
Dan DeToro | Tuesday, November 4, 2014
The Department of English’s inaugural Ernest Sandeen Memorial Reading will bring together both established and up-and-coming talent Wednesday in McKenna Hall at 7:30 p.m. The reading will honor Sandeen, a former Notre Dame faculty member, and will feature U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer prize-winner Philip Levine and University of Illinois at Chicago professor Christina Pugh. In keeping with Sandeen’s legacy
Andrea Vale | Thursday, October 16, 2014
Mexican-born poet and painter Valerie Mejer will make an appearance on campus Friday to read from her works. The Notre Dame creative writing program and Department of English will sponsor the event. Mejer’s works “explore containment and fragility, layering loss and possibility over a once-familiar landscape,” according to the creative writing program’s website. Her works include poetry collections