Category: News
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Black History Month: W.E.B. Du Bois
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Read More: Black History Month: W.E.B. Du BoisW.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois is remembered for his many roles as a journalist, educator, African-American sociologist, and Civil Rights activist. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois excelled at school, receiving two bachelor’s degrees from Fisk University (a historically black college in Nashville) and Harvard College,…
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Black History Month: bell hooks
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Read More: Black History Month: bell hooksbell hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins on September 25, 1952. The town of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where she and her five siblings grew up and went to school, was segregated, and her experiences in this community helped shape the commitment to feminism and resistance to racism central to her life’s…
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Rekindle the Classics: Left Hand of Darkness Discussion
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Read More: Rekindle the Classics: Left Hand of Darkness DiscussionKelly Weber is a first-year graduate student in the MFA Poetry program and graduate teaching assistant (GTA) for CO150. She’s been featured in our Humans of Eddy series and recently facilitated a Rekindle the Classics discussion about Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. She was kind enough to report back to us…
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Black History Month: Toni Morrison
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Read More: Black History Month: Toni MorrisonToni Morrison is among the most acclaimed African American authors in U.S. history. In 1993, she became the first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She also received a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in…
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A Day at the (Career) Fair
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Read More: A Day at the (Career) Fair~from intern Joyce Bohling Recently I shared a story here on the blog—“What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?”—exploring career options for English majors. For that post, I interviewed Career Education Manager for the College of Liberal Arts, Katie Russo, who explained all that English majors bring to the…
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Black History Month: Alice Walker
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Read More: Black History Month: Alice WalkerAuthor, civil rights activist, and women’s rights activist Alice Walker was born in Putnam County, Georgia in 1944. Born into a family of sharecroppers, she was the youngest of eight children. She grew up surrounded by oral tradition, hearing stories from her grandfather. Her grandfather’s stories inspired her, at the…
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News of Note Week of February 13
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 13Dan Beachy-Quick has a group of essays from A Quiet Book in the new Copper Nickel. On Saturday February 25th, Camille Dungy will be the Keynote Speaker at the Robinson Jeffers Society Annual Meeting at Occidental College. Her talk is titled: “The View From Hawk Tower Today: A Contemporary Environmental Poet…
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Humans of Eddy: Danny Bishop
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Danny Bishop~from intern Katie Haggstrom Danny Bishop Double Major: English and Journalism & Media Communication You mentioned that up until last year you wanted to be a news reporter. What made you change your path? Like most liberal arts students, I have had several professional identity crises. I always planned on…
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Black History Month: Audre Lorde
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Read More: Black History Month: Audre LordeAudre Lorde was a black writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, teacher, and civil rights activist, who described herself as a “lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Her poems and prose largely dealt with issues related to civil rights, feminism, and the exploration of black female identity. Jerome Brooks says in Black Women Writers (1950-1980):…
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Black History Month: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Read More: Black History Month: Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates writes frankly about race in contemporary America, directly addressing timely issues from racial bias in urban policing to President Obama’s legacy as our nation’s first black president. The MacArthur Foundation, which granted Coates a Genius Grant in 2015, wrote that Coates’ work “subtly embeds the present—in the form…