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As a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Jim Sheeler penned evocative articles about lives lost and loved ones left behind. As a Case Western Reserve professor, he inspired undergraduates to recognize the possibilities in their own lives—and to seize them. Today, all who knew Sheeler through his writi...

Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, wrote an opinion piece titled “Are Humanities Professors Moral Experts?” that was published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Clune explored how humanities professors are split between t...

By John Garcia While students' focus might be on the end of spring classes, the fall semester will be here soon enough. Undergraduate registration for the fall semester starts today (April 26); depending on the school, graduate program registration may already have started or may begin in the comin...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend “Finding Your Story: Using Personal Experience to Write for Kids,” an interactive workshop led by author Tricia Springstubb. The workshop will explore the use of the people, places and memories important to a writer’s own...

Marilyn Mobley, professor of English and African American studies, co-authored a piece titled “‘Time to Get Real’: What Black Faculty Need from White Faculty and Administrators to Interrupt Racism in Higher Education,” published in Insight into Diversity. Mobley, who is also former vice president f...

Marilyn Sanders Mobley, professor of English and African American studies, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Ohio Humanities Council on Nov 1. The Ohio Humanities Council is a private nonprofit organization that aims to promote public humanities in Ohio through programs, grants and comm...

In 2016, after a long referendum campaign, British citizens shocked politicians, journalists, academics, pollsters, and even themselves by voting to leave the European Union (EU). The Department of English will host Luke Reader, a SAGES teaching fellow in the Department of History, for a discussion ...

English Conversation Hour is open to all students, faculty and staff of CWRU. This is an opportunity for non-native English speakers to practice conversation skills with native English speakers. Attendees will meet Tuesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. in Nord Hall, Room 206. The first meeting is Oct. 8 and t...

The Case Western Reserve University Department of English will host a seminar titled “Unsettled Histories: Dub Poetry and Decolonization,” delivered by Janet Neigh, Friday, Sept. 13, from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the Guilford Hall parlor. The lecture will take a wide-angle lens view of postcolonial lit...

Dave Lucas, poet laureate of Ohio and full-time lecturer in Case Western Reserve’s Department of English, will celebrate the writings of Cleveland poet Hart Crane in Kelvin Smith Library’s Dampeer Room on March 25 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Known for his difficult and highly stylized modernist poetry, Cr...