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  • Susan Jaret McKinstry, Helen F. Lewis Professor of English

    Profiles in Teaching: Susan Jaret McKinstry on the Dynamism of a Classroom

    24 February 2022

    “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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  • A&A

    Octavia Washington ’22 Presents Aphrodite & Adonis

    7 February 2022

    Aphrodite & 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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  • Photo Credit: Tosh Tanaka

    Q & A with National Book Award Winner Karen Tei Yamashita ’73

    30 November 2021

    Warmest 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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  • A photo of Carolyn Soule

    Remembering Carolyn Soule

    13 January 2021

    It 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 posing near gate in San Francisco

    Jacob Isaacs ’20 works to map out Jewish cemeteries

    18 December 2019

    Over the summer, Jacob Isaacs worked to map out Jewish cemeteries in the San Francisco area. Read the full article!

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  • Amanda Zoch ’10

    Amanda Zoch ’10 Wins J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize Outside link

    15 May 2019

    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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  • 2019 English Major Fulbright Winners

    Four Senior English Majors Awarded Fullbright Grants

    23 April 2019

    Congratulations to this year’s Fulbright award-winning English majors: Jennifer Chan, Ellie Grabowski, Anne Hackman, and James Smith!

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  • Chris Wortman and William Gass

    Comps Insider: Chris Wortman ’19

    14 February 2019

    Chris 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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  • Bonnie Nadzam ’99 and Gregory Blake Smith

    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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  • Book cover: The Maze at Windermere

    Smith’s novel “The Maze at Windermere” named among the best of 2018

    3 January 2019

    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

    Claire Seymour ’20 Wins 2018 Nick Adams Short Story Contest Outside link

    26 April 2018

    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

    Sarah Olson ’15 Wins Nick Adams Short Story Contest

    15 April 2013

    Sarah 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.

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