A Review of Seafoam Slam Festival: A Murder Mystery
This is a repost of an ETB show, Seafoam Slam Festival: A Murder Mystery, which debuted in Spring 2021, written by Etienne Richart. Seafoam Slam Festival: A Murder Mystery, as…
Memorial for Owen Jenkins, Wayne Carver, November 4, 2002
This eulogy was written by Wayne Carver, very slightly revised and then read by George Soule at a meeting of the Carleton College Faculty on November 4, 2002. Paragraphs in…
Senior Softball: Au Revoir World!
Dateline: (A Lonesome) Bell Field (June 2, 2021) My last report from the Green Precincts of Bell Field, site of the English Department’s traditional picnic and “Seniors Versus The World”…
Meditations on Goodbyes
It’s the last week of classes and I’m thinking about goodbyes. It’s graduation in two weeks for my senior friends and I’m thinking about goodbyes. It’s the final article for…
Tickling and Cullen Skink: Tim and Connie take on our Paired Professor Profile
Hello Miscellany readers, and welcome to the first of our new series: Paired Professor Profiles! (P to the 3? Let us know what you think). We, your faithful editors, were…
The Comps Symposium: A Happy Ending, a Sad Goodbye
On May 8th, we celebrated a timeless English passage: Comps symposium, featuring various excellent, zany presentations. Comps is the closest thing English majors have to a Christmas; it’s the academic…
Interview with Natalie Marsh ’21, Winner of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Short Story Contest
Happy Miscellany Monday! This week, two of our editors, Amanda Mosborg and Julia Johnston, interviewed Natalie Marsh, this year’s winner of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) 49th annual…
How Many Fireplaces is Too Many Fireplaces? A New Vision of Laird
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…
Introducing the New English Majors
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…
The Recurring Debate Over Skipping Shakespeare
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…
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