Opening Lines
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
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…
Upcoming Events, Week of September 23
September 25: Screening of “Loving Lampposts” by Todd Drezner ’94 (7 pm, Weitz Cinema) Todd Drezner ’94 is an English major whose first documentary film, Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic, has garnered…
Welcome Back Party, Sep 20
The English Department invites you to a “Welcome Back” reception this Friday, September 20th, from 3:45-5 PM on the lawn in front of Laird Hall. (Rain location: Second Laird). Please…
Janine Barchas to Lecture on Jane Austen
Janine Barchas, Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin, will visit Carleton from Sep 30-Oct 1. Professor Barchas is the author of Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the…
Creative Writing Showcase: Sarah Walz
Sarah Walz (’14) is a senior English major from Elk Grove Village, Illinois. This past summer, Sarah was abroad as a part of the English Department’s Ireland program, where she…
Three Months Later…A Recent Graduate Looks Back
by Shavera Seneviratne (’13) Three months later… While I was unpacking after having moved into my new apartment, I came across a box that contained a file for every single…
Senior Spotlight: Gwen Hogan & Kailey Schumacher
Senior profiles for 2013-14 kick off with our SDA’s, Gwen Hogan and Kailey Schumacher. 1. Describe your experience as an English major in six words/haiku Gwen: There simply is not…
Salman Rushdie at Carleton in October
Renowned writer Salman Rushdie will visit Carleton from Oct 25-26. His visit is part of a year-long series of events on the subject of censorship, the impetus for which is…
A New Format for the Miscellany
The Second Laird Miscellany is now a blog. Our editors this year are Molly Work and Isaac Werner, with the assistance of Shavera Seneviratne (’13), the Department’s Educational Associate for…
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