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Welcome back to campus!

9 January 2025

Senior Spotlight | A Series of Speculative & Intellectual Inquiries: New Year’s Edition | Winter Poems for the Season

Snow-covered Carleton College

2LM Issue Three

15 November 2024

An Interview with Professor Susan Jaret McKinstry | Top Five Things about Living London | Winter Break Jams and Must-Reads

Tumblehome by Susan Jaret McKinstry

The Second Laird Miscellany returns!

18 October 2024

By co-editors Kaelyn Rothe & Hollin Keyser-Parker The Newest Additions to the Carleton English Department A paired interview with the new English faculty members, Professors Emily Coccia and Gwen Kirby

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How Many Fireplaces is Too Many Fireplaces? A New Vision of Laird

4 May 2021

Happy sixth week! Over the weekend, the editors got together and decided it was time to do something a little more on the impish side. We’ve just gotten back from…

Laird

Introducing the New English Majors

26 April 2021

As our days get slowly sunnier in Northfield, we are excited to see faces new and old on our screens, in our classrooms in the Weitz, and someday soon, in…

street view in northfield

The Recurring Debate Over Skipping Shakespeare

19 April 2021

Happy Miscellany Monday! For this week’s post, we are talking about a frequent cause of controversy in English departments nationwide: whether or not Shakespeare courses should be a requirement to…

Shakespeare COVID sign

Chair Greg Hewett speaks on changes to the English Department

1 March 2021

Happy Miscellany Monday! This week, we chatted with English Department Chair and creative writing professor Greg Hewett to hear about both immediate and long-term changes happening in the English department…

Department meeting

Reflecting on Irish Studies in Ireland

26 October 2020

Over this snowy weekend, I sat down with Naomi Brim ’21 to talk about her experience in slightly more green Ireland over the summer of 2019. Naomi, a senior English…

church and graveyard

Comps Queries

12 October 2020

It is now almost mid-October at Carleton, and seniors are anxiously awaiting the decisions on our comps proposals. Some have had ideas forming since a class they took sophomore year,…

Back patio at Little Joy

Welcome back to fall term at the Miscellany!

21 September 2020

Hello again and welcome back, Second Laird community! Whether you are on campus reading Shakespeare right now, learning about narrative theory remotely, or reminiscing about your English major past, we…

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