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“I love the idea that, as a professor, I am always reminded of what I don’t know as well as what I do know,” Jaret McKinstry said. Read the full…
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Octavia Washington ’22 Presents Aphrodite & Adonis
7 February 2022Aphrodite & Adonis is an original production written by Octavia Washington for her English project comps. If you weren’t able to attend in-person shows over the weekend of February 4-6,…
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Q & A with National Book Award Winner Karen Tei Yamashita ’73
30 November 2021Warmest congratulations to Karen Tei Yamashita! In honor of her “bold and groundbreaking” body of work, Yamashita ’73 was awarded the 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National…
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Remembering Carolyn Soule
13 January 2021It is with the greatest sadness that we announce the passing of alumna, sometime Carleton Miscellany editorial assistant, long-time departmental administrative assistant, and colleague, friend, and mentor to generations of…
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Jacob Isaacs ’20 works to map out Jewish cemeteries
18 December 2019Over the summer, Jacob Isaacs worked to map out Jewish cemeteries in the San Francisco area. Read the full article!
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Carleton alumna Amanda Zoch ’10, who recently completed her Ph.D. in English, has won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize at this year’s Shakespeare Association of America conference. The prestigious prize is awarded to the best Shakespeare-related dissertation of the year. Learn more about Amanda in her interview in The Second Laird Miscellany.
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Four Senior English Majors Awarded Fullbright Grants
23 April 2019Congratulations to this year’s Fulbright award-winning English majors: Jennifer Chan, Ellie Grabowski, Anne Hackman, and James Smith!
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Comps Insider: Chris Wortman ’19
14 February 2019Chris Wortman, an English major with a minor in creative writing from Riverside, Conn., tells us about his senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of his English degree.
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A Friendship with Words
27 January 2019“You hear about Faulkner writing As I Lay Dying in three weeks. I am so not the person who writes in a white heat. Maybe that’s why I hate the word creativity. I’m a plodder. I think this sentence is okay? No, maybe let’s change it.”
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The Maze at Windermere, the latest novel by professor of English Gregory Blake Smith, was named among the best books of 2018 by The Washington Post, The Advocate, and Minnesota Public Radio.
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Claire Seymour ’20, a sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, has won the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s 2018 Nick Adams Short Story Contest.
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Sarah Olson ’15 Wins Nick Adams Short Story Contest
15 April 2013Sarah Olson ’15, was recently selected as the winner of the 41st annual Nick Adams Short Story contest for “Truth in Lies,” a piece that she wrote in an introductory level creative writing class during fall term.
