Chapman University, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English would like to invite you to the 2011 Tabula Poetica series event “Are We There Yet?: The Use and Abuse of Place Names for Poetic Effect, on Tuesday, November 8 with Tom Zoellner. Tom Zoellner’s forthcoming book is “A Safeway in Arizona: What the
Chapman University, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of English and John Fowles Center would like to invite you to a special engagement with Giorgio Pressburger on Monday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries. Giorgio Pressburger has been living in Italy since 1965. He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English is excited to host Richard Bausch on Thursday, Sept. 29 at noon in the Wilkinson Chapel. Join Richard Bausch, a master of the short story, for a reading and discussion. His latest collection is Something Is Out There (Vintage 2010), his work has
Chapman University, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English would like to invite you to the 2011 Tabula Poetica series continuing Tuesday, October 4 with Tony Barnstone. Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English at Whittier College and the author of twelve books. His books of poetry include Tongue of War:
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences is excited to announce that Dr. Emilia Perassi from the University of Milan will be on campus as a special guest speaker on October 11, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Beckman Hall, 404. Parting from the ideas elaborated by Habermas, Arendt and Bobbio, Dr. Emilia Perassi’s lecture will consist
Chapman University, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English would like to invite you to the 2011 Tabula Poetica series, starting Tuesday, September 13 with Amy Newlove Schroeder. Amy Newlove Schroeder’s book The Sleep Hotel (Oberlin College P) won the Field Prize. A founding editor of Pool, Schroeder has published
During the spring semester, Professor Kent Lehnhof participated in a campus symposium on Macbeth, “Insight to a Shakespeare Tragedy” Watch professor’s Lehnhof’s mini-lecture.
The British Library in London currently has an exhibit featuring two early steampunk novels: Homunculus (winner of the Philip K. Dick award for best paperback science fiction novel in 1985) and Lord Kelvin’s Machine, published in 1992 by Professor of English James Blaylock. Also on display is a copy of Dr. Blaylock’s steampunk short story, “The
Dr. Robert Buranello’s ITAL343 class participated in the first annual OCICA Italian poetry contest on May 1, 2011 and also covered the event for L’Italo-Americano, the weekly bilingual (Italian-English) newspaper founded in 1908 in Los Angeles Country. Check out article here.
Kent Lehnhof, associate professor of English, has published a personal essay about commencement in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Check out the essay here: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-a-Comfortable-Commencement/127518/