Opening Lines, 2nd Ed.

9 October 2013

This Fall the Miscellany’s weekly contest asks you to identify books from their opening lines. Here is the second entry. You are encouraged not to Google but we have no…

Senior Spotlight: Joe Steigmeyer

8 October 2013

This week in the Senior Spotlight: Joe Steigmeyer 1. Describe your experience as an English major in six words. My ghost will haunt Laird 212. 2. If everyone moved to…

Upcoming Events, Week of October 7

7 October 2013

October 7th – 11th: Career Center 30 Minutes Program interviews Arts/Performing Arts/Film/Media October 7th: Marlou Johnson ’64 (Music) Violist/Violinist/Concertmaster *Skype* October 8th: Nathaniel Ryan ’10 (Studio Art/Geology), web producer –…

A Conversation with Erika Drezner (’94)

4 October 2013

Last Week, the English Department welcomed back three alumni to discuss their career paths after Carleton. Erika Drezner ’94, Todd Drezner ’94, and Erika Leeman-Price ’94 shared their insights into…

Erika Drezner holds a boy upside down in the grass

Junior Spotlight: Andry DeJong

4 October 2013

This week in the Junior Spotlight: Andry Sitara Ulrich DeJong (’15). 1. What is one thing your fellow English majors don’t know about you? I never cried on airplanes when…

Senior Spotlight: Maddie Reynolds

1 October 2013

This week in the Senior Spotlight: Maddie Reynolds. 1. Describe your experience as an English major in six words. Close reading is da bomb. Period. 2. If everyone moved to…

Maddie Reynolds dancing

Junior Spotlight: Henry Southwick

27 September 2013

This year the Second Laird Miscellany will turn the spotlight on juniors as well as seniors. Here then is Henry Southwick (’15). 1. What is one thing your fellow English…

A Conversation with Todd Drezner (’94)

26 September 2013

Todd Drezner, an English major from the class of 1994, delivers the convocation address tomorrow. He will be discussing his documentary film Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic and his own experience…

Opening Lines

25 September 2013

This Fall the Miscellany’s weekly contest asks you to identify books from their opening lines. Here is the first entry. You are encouraged not to Google but we have no…

Senior Spotlight: Hannah Neville

24 September 2013

Hannah Neville is in this week’s Senior Spotlight. 1. Describe your experience as an English major in six words. How did I miss that detail?? 2. If everyone moved to…