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oh no. here we go again. yet another attempt to find whatever it is that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that wh...
09/11/2024

oh no. here we go again. yet another attempt to find whatever it is that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bi***es birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.

Welcome back! Co-directors of the Creative Writing Concentration, Professors Suzanne Matson and Elizabeth Graver, have b...
08/25/2024

Welcome back! Co-directors of the Creative Writing Concentration, Professors Suzanne Matson and Elizabeth Graver, have been sharing information about our wonderful course offerings and lively writing community with first year students! Come write with us in the Boston College English Department!

Seniors in the Creative Writing Concentration read from their work yesterday in the Burns Library as part of Arts Fest 2...
04/27/2024

Seniors in the Creative Writing Concentration read from their work yesterday in the Burns Library as part of Arts Fest 2024. So much talent and so much hard work! The audience was rapt.

Yep, this year's 24-hour Ulysses reading came, finally, to it's conclusive "yes." Amazing endurance by my students. ...
03/23/2024

Yep, this year's 24-hour Ulysses reading came, finally, to it's conclusive "yes." Amazing endurance by my students. Brilliant stuff, everyone.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) spoke at BC many times during her illustrious career, even receiving an honorary degree at 1983...
07/21/2023

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) spoke at BC many times during her illustrious career, even receiving an honorary degree at 1983's commencement. In November 1989 Angelou performed to a sold out crowd at Robsham Theater, where "her mixture of music, poetry, and anecdotes - with a striking message of survival and aspirations - delighted her audience from the moment she walked on stage." (1)

Derrick Evans, UGBC Vice President for AHANA Affairs '89-90, told Heights Assistant News Editor Cynthia Heaney, "I would like to add emphasis to what she emphasized - [...] turning to African American literature as a source of education and inspiration." (2)

Chrissy Ford, A&S '90, is quoted as telling Heaney, "I like the way she incorporated poetry into more social aspects, in terms of racial equality. You don't usually hear it from a poetic aspect. Also, she was funny as hell!" (2)

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(1) Mc Nerney, Patricia. "Maya Angelou emphasizes liberating quality of literature." The Heights, 20 November 1989.
(2) Heaney, Cynthia. "Angelou captivates." The Heights, 20 November 1989.

Photo (1st slide): Maya Angelou, Boston College Photo Prints, John J. Burns Library, Boston College
Photo (2nd slide): Kimon, I.C. The Heights, 20 November 1989.

"As a teacher with a passion for collaborative learning, I strive to build community in my classes through small group d...
07/21/2023

"As a teacher with a passion for collaborative learning, I strive to build community in my classes through small group discussions, games, and group writing prompts. By fostering a welcoming and engaging environment, I aim to create a space where students feel that their voices, diverse perspectives, and unique contributions are essential to the course as a whole."

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Lauren Crockett-Girard on her receipt of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award! Lauren is one of four English graduate students presented with the award.

Look out for more posts highlighting the winners over the coming weeks!

In Noël Ingram's ()'s Literature Core Class "Bad Girls: Unruly, Cruel, Nasty, Women in Literature, Film, and Popular Cul...
05/02/2023

In Noël Ingram's ()'s Literature Core Class "Bad Girls: Unruly, Cruel, Nasty, Women in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture," students examined discourses of femininity in literature, film and popular culture, paying particular attention to the ways that performances of female rebellion stretch, bend, or challenge dominant understandings of what it means to be female in historical and contemporary American culture.

Thanks to generous funding from the American Studies program, students created their own literary analysis zines following lessons where they studied Anne Carson's Nox and grappled with multimodality and the limits of literary form.

What a wonderful afternoon at the Boston College Arts Fest getting to hear our senior Creative Writing Concentration stu...
04/29/2023

What a wonderful afternoon at the Boston College Arts Fest getting to hear our senior Creative Writing Concentration students read from their work! So much talent, hard work and powerful writing in that room!

Many congratulations to Professor of the Practice Allison Adair—a prize-winning poet and gifted teacher who brings so mu...
04/28/2023

Many congratulations to Professor of the Practice Allison Adair—a prize-winning poet and gifted teacher who brings so much to Boston College and the English Department—on receiving the 2023 Faculty Arts Award, along with Professor of Music Sandra Hebert!

Registration is open and room is still available!Creative nonfiction refers to writing about real-life events and topics...
04/27/2023

Registration is open and room is still available!

Creative nonfiction refers to writing about real-life events and topics using the tools of fiction (vivid description, dialogue, creative structure). Some creative nonfiction work focuses on oneself—personal essay, memoir—and other focuses on other people, places, and timely events. In this class we will sample writing many forms of creative nonfiction, including flash memoir, hermit crab essays, profiles, timely essays, and place studies. You will choose among three pieces to extensively revise. Along the way we will share our ideas and drafts in class workshop, focusing first on generosity and what is working well in a piece, and later in the semester offering revision suggestions and ideas. The goal will be to form a trusting community of writers who read and listen to each other deeply, support each other, and offer questions and ideas to help the writer develop each piece in meaningful ways.
 
Our reading will include a variety of nonfiction essays, including several from Neeema Avashia’s Another Appalachia: Growing Up Brown and Q***r in a Mountain Place and several essays from T. Kira Madden, Ryan Van Meter, Edwidge Danticat, among others.
 
Prof. Paula Mathieu has written and published creative nonfiction in the Huffington Post, The Examined Life Journal, and Writers: Craft and Context.
 
One goal of the class will be to create a collection of your essays, which we can make into a small zine or online publication. Come explore writing creative nonfiction!


The English PhD Pedagogy Seminar is hosting TWO Project-Based Learning (PBL) Pedagogy Workshops next week!🗓️The first is...
04/20/2023

The English PhD Pedagogy Seminar is hosting TWO Project-Based Learning (PBL) Pedagogy Workshops next week!

🗓️The first is on April 27, 2023 from 2:50-4:15pm in Stokes 476 South.

🗓️The second is on Friday, April 28th from 2-4pm in Fulton Hall 135.

Participants can expect to leave this seminar meeting with a brief understanding of the research behind PBL as a pedagogical approach, a hands-on, crash course in project planning with your particular educational context in mind, and a debrief on the experience, including planning next steps for your own teaching.

Please RSVP via Google Calendar invite. Didn't receive the invite? Contact Noël Ingram at [email protected].

More information and links to add the event to your calendar can be found here: shorturl.at/GQX24

Fall 2023 Course Highlights!ENGL3333 British Modernism, Professor Robert LehmanIn this course, we will study the great w...
04/18/2023

Fall 2023 Course Highlights!

ENGL3333 British Modernism, Professor Robert Lehman

In this course, we will study the great works of modernism with an eye toward the ways in which this revolution in the arts became our own tradition. Though we will focus on British modernism in particular, the global character of modernism will necessitate some attention to American and Continental European influences. We will also have the opportunity to compare literary modernism to developments in architecture, film, and painting. Authors to be discussed include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, H.D., T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf.

Follow the link below for the full list of English Electives:

https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/english/undergrad/undergraduate-courses.html

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