In a blog article about The Film Experience, Curt Newton’s article, “A Closer Look at The Film Experience,” talks to Literature Prof. David Thorburn. Prof. Thorburn says, “One of the ways…
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MIT Literature Prof. Eugenie Brinkema will be speaking at the Drew Theology Colloquium on Affect on March 18-20, 2016 in Madison, N.J. — registration is currently open. http://www.drew.edu/theological/programs-of-study/transdisciplinary-theological-colloquium “Affect theory…
The Communications Forum “Excellence in Teaching” forum will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2016 and will feature MIT Literature professor David Thorburn as well as former US Poet Laureate…
The first chapter of Ruth Perry’s groundbreaking biography of Mary Astell, one of England’s earliest known feminists, is titled, “”The Rediscovery of a Woman’s Voice”—arguably Prof. Perry’s deepest concern. Throughout a lifetime of research and teaching, now the Ann Fetter Friedlander Professor of the Humanities at MIT, she has captured the voices of English and Scottish women authors, both celebrated (Jane Austen, Charlotte Lennox) and neglected (Mary Astell, Anna Gordon).
Scheherazade is calling you! Or, to return from Rimsky-Korsakov to her Persian roots, Shahrazad: join the Literature community and friends as we explore her stories from The Arabian Nights during…
