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Winter Poetry Contest: Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize
The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize is an annual poetry contest for undergraduates of any major...
Job Placement
Our graduates from the past ten years currently hold a variety of positions in both academic and...

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Faculty Bookshelf

Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

Teaching The Woman Warrior can be a challenging...
The Making of a Broadside Ballad
Griffin, Andrew

In the fall of 2013, we asked ourselves what we’d learn if we made a broadside ballad from the ground up; The...
The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art by Candace Waid
The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner’s Art
Waid, Candace

A bold book, built of close readings,...
Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority
Maslan, Mark

Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author...
Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660-1830
Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn

Trees and tree products have long been central to human...
In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women
Carlson, Julie

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and...
Latina/os and WWII: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology
Olguín, Ben

The first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a...
Heroes and Saints & Other Plays
Moraga, Cherríe

Heroes and Saints & Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherríe Moraga's premiere...
Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable
Abbott, H. Porter

Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable revisits the ancient theme of...

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