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Job Placement
Our graduates from the past ten years currently hold a variety of positions in both academic and...
Prof. Homer Swander, In Memoriam
An obituary for Professor Homer Swander by Patrick Stewart.

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Faculty Bookshelf

Wordsworth: The Sense of History
Liu, Alan

The imaginative power of Wordsworth’s poetry stems from a denial of history so strong and precise that denial itself—the...
Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing
Waid, Candace

From The Library Journal

The growing literature on...
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
Fumerton, Patricia

It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them...
The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
Liu, Alan

“Knowledge work” is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even...
Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

This anthology of American writers originally from...
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Blurton, Heather

From Beowulf through the literature of the crusades...

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