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Swarbrick Works, Studies Environmental Humanities, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Swarbrick Works, Studies Environmental Humanities, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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“I had the experience of finding a particular professor who really got me to think long and hard about texts like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Those were the experiences that really ignited something for me, and there was no going back. I became really obsessed with literature as a whole. It was much later that I came around to being a specialist in early modern literature.”
That’s the way Dr. Steven Swarbrick explains how he became interested in literature. A native of San Jose, California, he got his bachelor’s from San Francisco State University and his doctorate from Brown University, both …
Kolb Studies, Teaches Shakespeare And His Times, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Kolb Studies, Teaches Shakespeare And His Times, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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Laura Kolb was not sure what she wanted to major in when she went to college at Columbia University, but at some point she decided in favor of English. This was not surprising, given her upbringing. “Ever since I was really small my parents read to me, and I loved to read,” she says.
A native of South Bend, Indiana, she grew up in Floyd, Virginia, went on to do her masters in Humanities and her doctorate in English at the University of Chicago, and today she is an assistant professor in the Department of English in the Weissman School …
Hentzi Looks At Literature And Its Circumstances., Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Hentzi Looks At Literature And Its Circumstances., Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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English is a well-known subject, but what most
people don’t know is that English scholars do a lot
of different things. One of these scholars is Dr. Gary
Hentzi, whose interest in culture dates from a very
early age. “I guess I always knew that I was interested
in the arts and culture. I started out more interested in
music than anything else, but it quickly branched out
into an interest in literature,” he says.
As a young professor, he specialized in one of the
founders of the novel as a literary genre in the early
18th century: Daniel Defoe. …
Mcglynn Studies, Teaches Different Forms Of The English Language., Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Mcglynn Studies, Teaches Different Forms Of The English Language., Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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Although English is spoken around the world and is considered the main means of communication in commerce, science, and many other fields, the language has humble origins and a complicated story.
With roots in the southern part of England, drawing from French, German, and Scandinavian languages, English began to spread around the world as the British began colonizing. First it was Wales, then Scotland, Ireland, Australia, the United States, South Africa, India, and elsewhere around the globe.