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December 30, 2015: Mckittrick Keynote Opens Ellis Series Spring Season, Department Of English
December 30, 2015: Mckittrick Keynote Opens Ellis Series Spring Season, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
The Department of English Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series WMU Faculty Keynote Lecture Casey McKittrick
December 17, 2015: 2016 Green Rose Prize From New Issues, Department Of English
December 17, 2015: 2016 Green Rose Prize From New Issues, Department Of English
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The 2016 Green Rose Prize Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum by Nadine Sabra Meyer
December 16, 2015: The Gwen Frostic Reading Series Spring 2016, Department Of English
December 16, 2015: The Gwen Frostic Reading Series Spring 2016, Department Of English
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The Gwen Frostic Reading Series Schedule for Spring 2016 Semester
December 12, 2015: Spring 2016 Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Events, Department Of English
December 12, 2015: Spring 2016 Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Events, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
The Trickster And Queen, Jagjit Sidhu
The Trickster And Queen, Jagjit Sidhu
Honors Theses
The trickster is a primary motif that appears in numerous cultures in the form of a mischievous and impulsive character, who tricks others to get what he wants. However, in reality the trickster is far from a simple-minded clown. He is actually very complex and sees through the facade of society and it’s strict hypocritical cultures and traditions, seeking to challenge these mechanisms that restrict the flow of logic and pleasure. For this paper, I will theoretically analyze the mechanism of the trickster, and the intimate relation between his trickery and his role as a culture-hero. I will apply this …
November 6, 2015: Carol Symes Lecture, Department Of English
November 6, 2015: Carol Symes Lecture, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
The Department of English Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series featuring Carol Symes
October 5, 2015: David Bleich Lecture, Department Of English
October 5, 2015: David Bleich Lecture, Department Of English
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The Department of English Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series featuring David Bleich
October 1, 2015: Safe On Campus Training, Department Of English
October 1, 2015: Safe On Campus Training, Department Of English
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Learn to be a better advocate and ally to lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people. Participants receive information on practical strategies for addressing homophobia, learn ways to support students who are coming out, and gain an understanding of respectful language use.
September 24, 2015: Cfp: 2016 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Department Of English
September 24, 2015: Cfp: 2016 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Department Of English
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Call for Papers: 2016 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
September 13, 2015: Ellis Series Kick-Off Event: New Discussion Forum, Department Of English
September 13, 2015: Ellis Series Kick-Off Event: New Discussion Forum, Department Of English
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The Department of English Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series featuring The New Discussion Forum
July 16, 2015: New Issues 20th Anniversary, Department Of English
July 16, 2015: New Issues 20th Anniversary, Department Of English
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A special gathering of the Kalamazoo community, writers, and Creative Writing and English alumni to celebrate 20 years of New Issues Poetry & Prose. Featuring music, readings, and an art sale.
Global Chaucers: Reflections On Collaboration And Digital Futures, Candace Barrington, Jonathan Hsy
Global Chaucers: Reflections On Collaboration And Digital Futures, Candace Barrington, Jonathan Hsy
Accessus
Global Chaucers, our multi-national, multi-lingual, multi-year project, intends to locate, catalog, translate, archive, and analyze non-Anglophone appropriations and translations of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Since its founding in 2012, this project has rapidly changed in response to scholars’ diverse interests and our expanding discoveries. Almost all these changes were prompted and made possible by our online presence (including a blog and Facebook group), and digital media comprises our primary means for gathering information, disseminating our findings, advertising conferences and events, and promoting the resource to other scholars. Because digital media can help disparate people traverse geographical and linguistic barriers, …
“Nede Hath No Law”: The State Of Exception In Gower And Langland, Conrad J. Van Dijk
“Nede Hath No Law”: The State Of Exception In Gower And Langland, Conrad J. Van Dijk
Accessus
This article discusses the use of the legal maxim necessity knows no law in the works of William Langland and John Gower. Whereas Langland’s usage has stirred up great controversy, Gower’s unique application of the canon law adage has received hardly any attention. On the surface, it is difficult to think of two authors less alike, and the way in which they relate the concept of necessity to different subjects (the poverty debate, fin amour) seems to support that feeling. Yet this article argues that reading Langland and Gower side by side is mutually illuminating. Specifically, this article reveals …
Foreword, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Foreword, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Accessus
Co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury welcome readers to Accessus 2.2.
Using Stories As The Landscape Of Writing: A Case Study Of Mentor Texts In The Elementary Classroom, Christine Mcdowell
Using Stories As The Landscape Of Writing: A Case Study Of Mentor Texts In The Elementary Classroom, Christine Mcdowell
Dissertations
In this dissertation, I investigate the way in which mentor texts are defined and implemented by four elementary classroom teachers within one school district, and how this mode of instruction allows for an increase in teacher autonomy while still addressing Common Core State Standards. This project focuses on each participant as they share a common goal in writing instruction while maintaining their teaching identity and curricular freedom.
One goal of this study is to provide the educational theory that supports mentor text instruction that is missing from the movement. Many teaching guides exist that explain the concept of mentor texts, …
May 28, 2015: Nagle Reviews Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Sense & Sensibility, Department Of English
May 28, 2015: Nagle Reviews Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Sense & Sensibility, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
The Peace Of The Waste Land And Understanding Eliot’S Two Readings, Luke J. Chambers
The Peace Of The Waste Land And Understanding Eliot’S Two Readings, Luke J. Chambers
The Hilltop Review
There are two recordings of T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land in existence today, one made in 1946 for the Library of Congress, and another from 1935, recorded at Columbia University. The later 1946 recording, being the only one published, is by far the more well known. The 1935 recording is of much inferior sound quality and is difficult to find. The younger Eliot recites at times with greater energy, a quicker tempo, and with markedly different phrasing and intonation. However, quite often Eliot’s recitation is nearly indistinguishable between the two recordings. The specific moments of difference reveal a great …
April 29, 2015: Fellowship Opportunity--Deadline 5/8/15!, Department Of English
April 29, 2015: Fellowship Opportunity--Deadline 5/8/15!, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
April 28, 2015: New Issue Of Comparative Drama, Department Of English
April 28, 2015: New Issue Of Comparative Drama, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
The Laureate Collection, Samantha Mcveigh
April 9, 2015: Graduate Scholar-In-Residence Program At The Newberry (5/1), Department Of English
April 9, 2015: Graduate Scholar-In-Residence Program At The Newberry (5/1), Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
February 18, 2015: Jericho Brown Reading At Wmu: Thurs., 2/26 @8:00pm, Little Theater, Department Of English
February 18, 2015: Jericho Brown Reading At Wmu: Thurs., 2/26 @8:00pm, Little Theater, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
February 10, 2015: Hart-Davidson Next Scholarly Speakers Series Lecturer, Department Of English
February 10, 2015: Hart-Davidson Next Scholarly Speakers Series Lecturer, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
“For It Acordeth Noght To Kinde”: Remediating Gower’S Confessio Amantis In Machinima, Sarah L. Higley
“For It Acordeth Noght To Kinde”: Remediating Gower’S Confessio Amantis In Machinima, Sarah L. Higley
Accessus
Visual adaptation of a medieval text, as tempting as it is in film of any kind, is never an easy conversion, and all the more so if the original is as formally structured as John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. This essay examines the philosophy and difficulties of making a “medieval motion picture” (animated and narrated by the author) reflect the message of three of Gower’s tales (“The Travelers and the Angel,” “Canace and Machaire,” “Florent”) as well as the multimedia properties of the manuscripts that house them, their illuminations beckoning us into colorful virtual worlds. In referencing theories of adaptation, …
Preface, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Preface, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Accessus
Co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury are delighted to feature the work of medievalist and machinimatographer Sarah L. Higley in this issue of Accessus. In a machinima production that debuted during the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society at the University of Rochester (30 June through 3 July, 2014), Higley refashions three tales from the Confessio Amantis for her film The Lover's Confession. In this issue of Accessus, we present the film and Higley's commentary on the intersections between her creative work with machinima and scholarly issues surrounding "The Tale of the Travelers and the …
January 26, 2015: Rogers Shakespeare Essay Contest 2015, Department Of English
January 26, 2015: Rogers Shakespeare Essay Contest 2015, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
January 26, 2015: Attention Medievalist Grad Students: Medieval Studies Workshop At Newberry Library, Department Of English
January 26, 2015: Attention Medievalist Grad Students: Medieval Studies Workshop At Newberry Library, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
Neurodiversity’S Lingua Franca?: The Wild Iris, Autobiography Of Red, And The Breakdown Of Cognitive Barriers Through Poetic Language, Dani Alexis Ryskamp
Neurodiversity’S Lingua Franca?: The Wild Iris, Autobiography Of Red, And The Breakdown Of Cognitive Barriers Through Poetic Language, Dani Alexis Ryskamp
The Hilltop Review
Persons with mental and emotional disabilities, including self-advocates in the fledgling "neurodiversity" movement, often find themselves at a loss to communicate effectively with the "neurotypical," abled majority when experiences of language differ dramatically across typical and atypical populations. This paper explores the possibility of poetic language as a "lingua franca" permitting communication of neurodiverse experiences. It does so by examining examples of animism, synesthesia, and metonymy in Louise Gluck's The Wild Iris and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red - poetic elements that also appear frequently in the writing of activists with depression, autism, and other neuroatypical conditions. I argue that, …
The Rhetoric Of Exile In The Preaching And Teaching Of The Anglo-Saxon Church: Glimpses Of The Cultural Ideology In Old English Homilies, Yi-Chin Huang
The Hilltop Review
Abstract.
This article explores how the early medieval vernacular homiletic discourse produced in Anglo-Saxon England strategically employs the rhetoric exile, a theme whose significance is also articulated widely in Old English poetry. As words denoting such similar ideas as exile, banishment, exclusion, casting/driving out, etc., recur significantly in the homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, including the homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the Blickling and Vercelli Codices, I propose an analysis of the instances in which the rhetoric about exile is used in preaching and theology in order to reveal not only the Church authors/teachers’ ability and effort to translate Latin …
Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg Ph.D., Ilse A. Schweitzer Vandonkelaar
Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg Ph.D., Ilse A. Schweitzer Vandonkelaar
The Hilltop Review
Despite the growing evidence of humanity’s impact on the natural world and the urgent need to shape citizens who understand the impact that their choices and actions have on their local and global environments, colleges and universities throughout the United States have been slow to add environmental education as a core component of their undergraduate curricula. Harnessing our shared interest in environment issues and the humanities, we designed and taught an experimental course in environmental literature for the honors program at Western Michigan University that we hope will become a template of what is possible in postsecondary environmental education. Using …