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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…