Creative Spotlight: “Transplant” by Mica Bahn

27 May 2019

This week, we are excited to share a short story by Mica Bahn (’20).  Mica hails from Manhattan and is an English major interested in creative writing. The author that…

Mica Bahn ’20

Creative Spotlight: “One Form” by David Rubin

16 May 2019

This week, we’re thrilled to publish a poem by David Rubin ’21. David is a sophomore English major who hails from Ann Arbor, MI. His favorite writer is a tossup…

David Rubin

Alumni Profile: Amanda Zoch ’10 Wins J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize

15 May 2019

The Miscellany is happy to share exciting news: alum Amanda Zoch ’10, who recently completed her Ph.D. in English, has won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize at this year’s Shakespeare…

Amanda Zoch

The 2019 English Comps Symposium Preview

10 May 2019

Comps is (are?) a strange experience—your room accumulates a landscape of readings, your weeks start to pass in page counts, you wrestle wayward drafts late into the night, wondering at…

Laird Hall at night

Dispatches from London Programs Past

6 May 2019

Attention all globetrotters, theatergoers, and bibliophiles: the 2020 edition of the annual London Program is still accepting applications! Professor Constance Walker is leading the program next Winter, and students joining…

Event Preview: Convocation by Bao Phi, “A Vietnamese Exploration of Race, Class, and Colonization Through Poetry”

1 May 2019

Performance poet, author, and activist Bao Phi delivers a convocation presentation on May 3.

Introducing the New English Majors

25 April 2019

Spring term is always refreshing at Carleton. After a long and cold winter, it’s impossible to take the warm weather for granted. All around campus, the last patches of snow…

A cake that says

Creative Spotlight: “Street Vendors of Gujarat” by Rajkumar Raiyani

17 April 2019

To kick off what looks to be a flourishing spring for the literary arts, the Miscellany presents our first creative spotlight of the term, a poem by Rajkumar Raiyani (’21)! Rajkumar…

Rajkumar Raiyani

Event Preview: Panel Discussion of Timothy Raylor’s Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes

25 February 2019

This Thursday, you’re invited to a blockbuster book discussion, where the centerpiece is a new volume by the English Department’s own Timothy Raylor! Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes (Oxford University Press, 2019)…

Tim Raylor

An Interview with Nancy Cho and Anne Hackman ’19

19 February 2019

This past fall, Professor Nancy Cho and Anne Hackman ’19 were awarded a winter break Student Research Partnership from The Humanities Center. Over the course of her break, Anne was…

Anne Hackman ’19 and Professor Nancy Cho