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Five Case Western Reserve University faculty members were featured in C-SPAN’s Cities Tour. With Local Content Vehicles, C-SPAN visited Cleveland May 21-27 to highlight the history and literary figures in the area. The interviews aired June 16-17. Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor a...

As a former reporter, Jim Sheeler knows the excitement of covering presidential politics. So, as one of the largest events of the year comes to Cleveland in July, Sheeler wants to make sure his students get a first-hand look at all of the action. Sheeler’s students will cover the Republican Nationa...

In the 1960s, when matchmakers paired writers with receptive readers overseas, so-called “World Literature” was born The spark for William Marling’s new book—Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s—came 20-odd years ago, while lecturing on the hard-boiled detective story as a ...

Michael Clune, professor of English, penned an opinion piece on what it’s like to use virtual reality—and the difference between seeing something through the eyes of someone else and seeing it from the user’s own perspective. His article, titled “Virtual reality reminds users what it's like to be t...

The next English Colloquium Series event will feature a roundtable discussion on living forms Friday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. in the Guilford House parlor. The premise of the living forms workshop and roundtable is to show how several research areas in the humanities intersect by way of the question of ...

Two Case Western Reserve University faculty members presented their works alongside famed authors such as Tom Brokaw and Salman Rushdie at the Miami Book Fair International Nov. 21-22. Michael W. Clune, professor of English, read from his recently published memoir Gamelife (Farrar, Straus and Girou...

The Writing Resource Center will hold the final General Campus Workshop of this calendar year Friday, Nov. 20, from 12:35 to 1:35 p.m. in Bellflower Hall, Room 102. Megan Jewell, instructor of English, and Molly Zacour, graduate student in the Department of English, will lead the workshop on "Revis...

When the Cleveland Cavaliers tip off tonight in Quicken Loans Arena for their first home game of the season, fans from Case Western Reserve University might see a familiar face on the court: Bry Atchison. A junior majoring in English, Atchison is one of the newest members of the Cavalier Girls danc...

How did a mixed-race woman, born into poverty in the remote Andes, whose formal education ended with primary school, become a literary celebrity—and Latin America’s first Nobel Laureate? Find out when Elizabeth Horan, professor of English at the University of Arizona, presents “Unrepentant Traveler...

Harper's Magazine published an excerpt from Michael W. Clune’s forthcoming book, Gamelife, in its September issue. Clune is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. Gamelife demonstrates how computer games transformed Clune’s life during his early childhood. Read the excerpt in H...