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2022-2023 Newsletter
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Letter From the Chair
"Pursuing literatures in English not only opens deep and wide understandings of a vast span of human history but also offers keys to the well-informed, fully examined, and passionately meaningful life..."
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Two Beloved Professor-Activists in Retirement
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What do you remember about Professors McClane and Sawyer? Send us your memories of your favorite Cornell professors at engl_news@cornell.edu
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McClane remembers the photograph that drew him to Cornell, and how the University has changed since his first day in 1969.
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Sawyer reflects on what drew him to a career in teaching and the importance of intersectionality when shaping the curriculum.
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Student/Alumni Spotlights
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Madi Fulchiero is studying Spanish and English and focused her senior thesis on two Disney films.
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Kathryn Stamm is a Literatures in English and American Studies major.
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Andy Maghacot is majoring in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Literatures in English.
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Aishvarya Arora is an avid researcher, reader, and writer. They're also an enthusiast for graphic novels as they create instructive, visual images in the world of literature and language!
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Samantha Kathryn O’Brien turns the intimidation of an MFA into empowerment as she works on the beginnings of her novel. She is discovering her voice as she grapples with writing fiction about sex work in a non-polemical way.
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Sophia Veltfort, MFA ’20, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, studies the representations of speech and thought in 20th-century fiction.
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"As a poet with the heart of a historian, I’m interested in attending to the interrelated histories of European colonialism and industrial warfare through the lyric."
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With a research travel grant, Heller will go to Nairobi this summer to research an archive of interviews with the Taarab musician Sitara Bute.
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What Are You Reading?
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Cornell students and faculty are delving into philosophy and fantasy, Italian fiction and Korean poetry…Read More
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New faculty member brings expertise in literature and … crosswords
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The Klarman Fellow (and future prof) is a regular contributor to the New Yorker—and she created a puzzle just for Cornellians!
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Faculty Spotlights
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Juliana Hu Pegues often heard stories of Asian immigrants as she was growing up, but they never made it into the history books.
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Mukoma Wa Ngugi channeled his fascination with Ethiopian "Tizita" songs into his fourth novel, “Unbury Our Dead With Song,” which will be published Sept. 21.
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In Memoriam
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<div> <div> <p> Professor Emerita of English Alison Lurie, the award-winning and critically acclaimed writer who set some of her fiction on a campus with a striking similarity to Cornell’s, died Dec. 3 in Ithaca. She was 94. </p></div></div>
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Koch’s expertise made a mark on American literature and influenced writers who went on to publish bestselling and prize-winning works of fiction and poetry.
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THE GLOWWORM
by Kenneth McClane
The glowworm works up the barren limb
like a fragile index of the world:
This is not his poem: he sings
for himself:
The poem here is the singing
of the glowworm, how he struggles up
the next section of bark
stretching like an accordian, his
mind seething with his body’s
thumbless design:
But this is not his poem: it is about
lovers: it is about sound and sense and
sound sense (in-sense incense innocence): it is
about games and lovers: it is about
the struggle to be perfect, to make
that love inviolable, sacred: it is about
the poet who needs language
who needs the world, who needs
words to love him: it is about
love, vast love, love of meaning’s
love: it is about the soul
which speaks beyond sense, which
flushes like a quail
after a startling: it is about love
the love of the smallest
darting, the imperfect journey, the glow
glowing glowworm, worthy of itself,
and worthy then of singing
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