English

Annual English Majors Reception, Thursday, 28 April

laquintt — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:04:00 +0000

The annual reception for English majors will be Thursday, 28 April, 4L30-6:30, in the Pardee lobby. Music by the Ojespa Jazz Project (Sean Gough, Tony Marino, and John O’Keefe). RSVP by Monday, 25 April, to Ms. Riefenstahl (riefensj). All English majors are warmly invited.

Stewardship Strategies in Language, Monday, 18 April

James Woolley — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:54:00 +0000

At 7 pm Monday, 18 April 2011, Oechsle 224, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre will invite us to consider practical ways to maintain public and private conversation with integrity in the midst of propaganda, spin, technologies that encourage oversimplified communication, and the hidden agendas of those who control mass media. Professor McEntyre is author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. An Earth Week event, co-sponsored by the Department of English.

Kimiko Hahn poster

James Woolley — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:02:30 +0000

Cabaret Voltaire

James Woolley — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:10:01 +0000

You are cordially invited to the CABARET VOLTAIRE, performed by the students of Dada Visual and Performing Art, Wednesday, March 23, noon, in the Williams Visual Arts Building. Lunch will be provided

Chris Phillips, We Are What We Sing

James Woolley — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:07:20 +0000

We Are What We Sing: Hymns and the Diversification of American Culture, 1750-1850

A lecture by Christopher Phillips, Drown Hall, Lehigh University, Room 209, Thursday, February 17, 4:10pm. Sponsored by Lehigh University’s American Studies Program

Phillips is an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College

A Hundred Thousand Cranes?

James Woolley — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:31:08 +0000

The National Crane Project, a spinoff from Mary Jo Lodge’s College Theater production of A Thousand Cranes, offers a gesture of hope to pediatric cancer patients. Professor Lodge is coordinating the effort, which began in collaboration with the late 10-year-old Easton resident David Heard and his family.

Creative Writing website launched 10 December

James Woolley — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:37:35 +0000

The new Creative Writing website is at http://creativewriting.lafayette.edu.

Poetry and fiction reading, 9 December

James Woolley — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:40:13 +0000

POETRY AND FICTION READING by students in English 255 and 360, Thursday, 9 December, 8 pm, Gilbert’s Back Room

Mary Jo Lodge, Jennifer Kelly sing 14 November

James Woolley — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:19:03 +0000

How the Other Half Lives

On Sunday, 14 November 2010, at 3:00 pm in the Williams Center for the Arts, Jennifer Kelly and Mary Jo Lodge will present a concert of musical theater and cabaret, accompanied by Tom DiGiovanni, piano, and Greg Eicher, bass. Tickets are free and at the Williams Center box office.

The program is a faculty recital jointly sponsored by the Department of Music and the Department of English.

Jennifer Kelly (at left) is an assistant professor of music; Mary Jo Lodge (at right) is an assistant professor of English. They share a strong interest in musical theater.

Alix Ohlin reads, 2 November 2010

James Woolley — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:40:58 +0000

Who Do You Love? New Short Fiction

Alix Ohlin will read new fiction from her forthcoming collection of stories on 2 November 2010 at 7:30 pm in 104 Kirby Hall of Civil Rights. The reading is free and open to the public.

“In my recent work,” Ohlin writes, “I’ve been experimenting with genre forms such as the mystery, ghost story, and melodrama. Mostly, the stories feature characters at times of crisis — people who confront dramatic situations and discover that, in the end, no one is more responsible for the transformations in their lives than themselves.”

Alix Ohlin is an associate professor of English at Lafayette College; her reading is Lafayette’s Jones Faculty Lecture for fall 2010.