English & creative writing
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Liberal arts lead Engel back to law
The liberal arts taught Amanda Engel how to combine her love for English as well as mathematics, and the result is that she’ll attend the Washington University School of Law in the fall.
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Fulbright sending Wenger to Turkey
Emily Wenger ’14 is capping four years of involvement in English and theatre with a Fulbright in Turkey, where she hopes to continue studying and teaching both.
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POETRY FOR MY PUBLIC
POETRY FOR MY PUBLIC is Catherine Wagner and Dana Ward! 5 p.m. Friday, May 2 @ the Cornell College Center for the Literary Arts.
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The Urgency of Narrative with Nathan Schneider
Literary journalist Nathan Schneider discussed the importance of storytelling in our encounter with the world and world-tested advice about how to survive as a young writer on April 25.
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HAIG Lecture: Wilderness, National Parks, and the Poetic Imagination
Part travelogue, part philosophical meditation, part poetry reading, on April 24, Professor Glenn Freeman recounted his experiences as artist-in-residence at several national parks and wilderness areas. Freeman reflected on the relationship of culture to wilderness, and the role the arts play in wilderness preservation.
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Mark Mayer Reading
RP Dana Fellow Mark Mayer gave a reading from his work in progress on April 2. Mayer has studied fiction at Brown University, the University of Montana, and the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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Luplow reflects on a semester of creative insights
My first semester at Cornell was loaded with awesomeness: photographing King Chapel a million times over, reading “Paradise Lost” until I began dreaming in 17th-century rhetoric, tweaking out with Beethoven and 35mm negatives in the darkroom at 3 a.m. But there is one aspect in particular that made it extraordinary.
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Science and creativity converge in writing course
During Stranger Than Fiction: Creative Writing About the Sciences, Margo Fritz explored the intersection between her love of writing and her interest in science.
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Reading by visiting writer Sandra Beasley Nov. 15
Distinguished Visiting Writer Sandra Beasley will read from her poetry and prose on Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Van Etten-Lacey House. Beasley is on campus to teach an advanced creative writing course, Stranger Than Fiction: Creative Writing about the Sciences.
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Literature course explores Dante’s world in Italy
Medieval Literature students spent Block 2 in Italy studying Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Their days were spent roaming the cathedrals that inspired Dante himself and viewing art that was inspired by Dante’s work.
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HAIG Lecture: the absolute queen
Kirilka Stavreva, department of English, will discuss the use of queenship in Julie Taymor’s 2010 film, The Tempest, which cast Dame Helen Mirren as Prospera in Thomas Commons Nov. 7, 11:10 a.m.
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Visiting author: Curtis Bauer
Curtis Bauer will be at the Van Etten-Lacey House Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. Bauer is the author of three poetry collections: Fence Line (2004), which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize; Spanish Sketchbook (2012), a bilingual English/Spanish collection published in Spain; and The Real Cause for Your Absence (2013).
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Alumna Founds Online Literary Magazine
Cornell Alumna Julia Morrison ’11, with help from staff members and contributing artists Marika von Zellen ’12 and Abbey Sturm ’11, founded the online literary magazine, The Alligator, geared at producing work from new artists, writers, and musicians. Their first issue features poetry, short fiction, photography, a comic, and an interview with a writer.
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English professor edits articles on teaching Dante
Professor Katy Stavreva collected and edited a cluster of 11 articles—including one she wrote herself—about multidisciplinary approaches to teaching Dante for the Winter 2013 edition of the journal Pedagogy.
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Six courses traveled to tropical field stations in February
Fifty-seven students joined their Cornell professors for courses in the Bahamas and Belize during block 6. Cornell courses have traveled to the Gerace Research Center in the Bahamas for years, and 2013 marked the third annual trip to a field station in Latin America.
Liberal arts lead Engel back to law 
Fulbright sending Wenger to Turkey 
Luplow reflects on a semester of creative insights 
Science and creativity converge in writing course 
Reading by visiting writer Sandra Beasley Nov. 15 
Literature course explores Dante’s world in Italy 
Alumna Founds Online Literary Magazine 
English professor edits articles on teaching Dante 
Six courses traveled to tropical field stations in February