SAGES Fellow Gail Arnoff posted her thoughts about teaching James McBride’s The Color of Water in her “Questions of Identity” University Seminar. Her reflections appear on the Anisfield-Wolf Community Blog.
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On October 26, 2015, students in FSSY 173 (Fictions of Empire) had a Skype conversation with the renowned Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o during Fourth Hour. Thiong'o is currently a Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and English at the School of Humanities at University of California, Irvine. In FSSY...
SAGES Fellow Amy Absher has had an article published today on Process Blog in which she discusses the ways digital technology such as MMPORGs can be used to teach history. The article, From Minecraft to Mindcraft: Integrating Digital Humanities into History Courses, can be found online here.
SAGES English Lecturer Luke Reader has a new article on History News Network called How Gun Control Came to Britain, which explores how Britain enacted tougher gun laws following a 1996 shooting at a primary school. He explains that though he believes the United States is different, there are...
On Friday 2 October, SAGES English Lecturer Matthew Feinberg will be giving a talk at Kent State's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative downtown at 1309 Cleveland Ave Suite 200, from 12-1. It is free and open to the public. The title of the talk is Re-Making Madrid: The Cultural Ecology of...
SAGES Fellow David Lucas has moderated a round table with poets David Baker and Jill Bialosky for Belt magazine, available here.
His poem "November" is being reprinted in the 11th ed. of The Bedford Introduction to Literature and Thinking and Writing about Poetry, edited by Michael Meyer. New work by...