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Undergraduate students are invited to apply for the third annual Arnaud Gelb Journalism Awards and Internship Grants, featuring up to $2,000 in prize money and internship funding. The prize recognizes the best in Case Western Reserve University student journalism and also provides grants to defray c...

Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor in English, will talk about the inspiration for her new novel, The Secrets Between Us, and the challenges of writing a sequel. The event, hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, will take place Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Ti...

Michael Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, reviewed Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In his review, Clune wrote about how Kramnick’s piece demonstrated how the literary studies discip...

Brad Ricca, a full-time lecturer in the Department of English, wrote an article for Book Riot titled “Comic books are real books.” In the piece, Ricca categorizes comic books among other books, contending that they share enough of the important characteristics to be of the same value. Ricca shared ...

Luke Reader, a full-time lecturer in the Department of English, wrote an article titled “Opposing antisemitism is not about attacking Corbyn” for Progress Online. In the piece, he explored the greater historical context of the British Labour party’s attitude toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...

Professor of English William Marling wrote a piece titled “In the Flow: On Charles J. Rzepka’s Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard” for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In the article, he reviews Rzepka’s biography of Leonard, an American novelist, short story writer and screen writer. Additiona...

The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host Michael Chiappini, a PhD candidate in the Department of English for a Graduate Student Work-in-Progress talk titled “Thinking Like a Virus: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature.” This talk will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall...

Brad Ricca, a full-time lecturer with the English department, wrote a book that was recently nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Fact Crime. The narrative biography, titled Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case th...

Mary Grimm, associate professor of English, wrote a short story titled The Curse of Knowledge. It was published in the Slippery Elm Literary Journal, which is distributed by the University of Findlay. Read the story at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/authors/online-only/mary-grimm/1299-2/....

Cameron Macaskill, a senior, was one of 120 students nationally selected for a 2017 Projects for Peace Grant. Macaskill received $10,000 to implement her project, a weeklong “Poetry for Peace” camp for South African high school students, which will be implemented over the summer. Philanthropist Ka...