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Liam Kelly | Thursday, April 20, 2023
The Notre Dame English department’s new curriculum requirements look to put a greater focus on “multiculturalism,” department head Laura Knoppers stated during an interview with The Observer. “As a discipline, [English is] very attuned to social issues,” Knoppers said. Recently, the department instituted a number of changes for the required courses for the class of
Claire Reid | Friday, December 2, 2022
Wednesday night in a crowded Eck Visitors Center auditorium, author and South Bend native Tess Gunty discussed her debut novel, “The Rabbit Hutch,” which recently won the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has also won the Waterstones debut fiction prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. Published on July 21, “The Rabbit Hutch” follows three
Redmond Bernhold | Friday, November 11, 2022
Natasha Trethewey, two-term 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, gave a poetry reading focused on her identity and inspiration as a poet Wednesday night for the Notre Dame community. “I think of myself as an elegiac poet as well as a poet concerned with remembrance and memorialization with the intersections between
Katelyn Waldschmidt | Friday, October 28, 2022
New York Times best-selling author Ashley Ford visited Saint Mary’s Thursday night for a reading of her memoir “Somebody’s Daughter,” followed by a Q&A session. In 2021, Ford published a full-length memoir about her childhood and the struggles she faced due to poverty, racism and assault. Ford’s visit was the first of this year’s Visiting
Marisol Bohorquez | Friday, September 2, 2022
The Saint Mary’s English club has been dormant for the past couple of years. This semester, it has revived by several Saint Mary’s seniors. The seniors behind the club’s reestablishment started with conversations in English classes by president Madeline Law, vice president Gracie Conlon, secretary Shannon Haverty and treasurer Genevieve Coleman. Editor’s note: Law is
Sydni Brooks | Wednesday, October 13, 2021
As an English major, I have frequently but quietly expressed my grievances on the types of literature I am challenged with analyzing in my classes. With the ability to choose the genre of authorship I would like to study, much unlike our high school days when the old, white, male works were forcibly fed down
Nicole Caratas | Friday, May 18, 2018
When I was looking for which college to go to, my dream schools were Kenyon College and Boston College. I ended up at Saint Mary’s as a compromise. I loved the College, and my parents loved that it had connections with Notre Dame. The deal was I would major in engineering and get a degree
Sara Schlecht | Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Professor Chris Cobb admits he probably spends more time in Science Hall than most of his colleagues in the humanities department. The Saint Mary’s professor has served as both the English department chair and a professor of environmental studies. “What I use from teaching English when I am teaching Environmental Studies is primarily the teaching
Colleen Zewe | Friday, March 24, 2017
Married authors and Florida State University professors Elizabeth and Ned Stuckey-French visited Saint Mary’s on Thursday as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers series. Mrs. Stuckey-French has written several novels and short story collections, including her recent book “The Revenge of Radioactive Lady,” which received critical acclaim from The New Yorker and The New
Catherine Owers | Friday, February 5, 2016
Notre Dame undergraduate students now have the option to take a three-credit creative writing workshop in Ireland through a summer program sponsored by both the creative writing program and Notre Dame International. Running from July 17 to Aug. 7, students will spend one week in the city of Dublin and two weeks at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara,