News & Events
Watch a 4 min video reflecting on the undergraduate research conference Re:Humanities run by Jen Rajchel, English '11 and Evan McGonagill, English '10, together with two Haverford students.
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Bi-Co Digital Discussion Group
In Fall 2010, students, faculty, and staff at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges are invited to discuss undergraduate research in a digital world. Through a reading group and symposium, we will explore how undergraduates can make sense of and harness digital technologies for research. Across four bi-weekly, hour-long sessions, we'll discuss articles, websites, YouTube clips, Twitter feeds, and all else digital related. More info . . .
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The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education cover Prof. Rowe's experiment with "crowd-sourcing" as an alternative to traditional peer review in the journal Shakepeare Quarterly.
Continuing the longstanding tradition of the Strawberry and Champagne toast to the 2011 seniors on "Thesis Day"
April 25 on the English House Lawn.
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The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education cover Prof. Rowe's experiment with "crowd-sourcing" as an alternative to traditional peer review in the journal Shakepeare Quarterly.
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Watch a 4 min video reflecting on the undergraduate research conference Re:Humanities run by Jen Rajchel, English '11 and Evan McGonagill, English '10, together with two Haverford students.
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The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education cover Prof. Rowe's experiment with "crowd-sourcing" as an alternative to traditional peer review in the journal Shakepeare Quarterly.
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English Majors go gaga for Gaga:
English majors (left to right) Jen Rajchel, Mary Zaborskis and Clare Mullaney made t-shirts and took themselves to Lady Gaga's Monster Ball concert in Philadelphia. Here they model their devotion to both their major and their idol, while demonstrating the close connection an English major encourages between theory and practice! Rumor has it that English professors Thomas and Schneider, as well as professors from several other Bryn Mawr departments, were spotted screaming like Beatlemaniacs in the crowd . . . but this can be neither confirmed nor denied.
Digital Reading Group Dates: Wednesdays--Sept 22, Oct. 6, Oct 20, Nov 3
Bi-Co Digital Discussion Group
In Fall 2010, students, faculty, and staff at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges are invited to discuss undergraduate research in a digital world. Through a reading group and symposium, we will explore how undergraduates can make sense of and harness digital technologies for research. Across four bi-weekly, hour-long sessions, we'll discuss articles, websites, YouTube clips, Twitter feeds, and all else digital related. More info . . .
Time: 7-8:15 pm (with snacks!)
Place: Sept 22 and Oct 6 at Haverford Humanities Center Seminar room in Stokes
Oct 20, Nov 3. will be hosted at Bryn Mawr in English House Lounge
More information: bicodigitalhumanities@gmail.com and haverford.edu/rehumanities
May Day 2010
2010 May Day Worthies from the English House, Spaghetti Western Cowboy, Karl Kirchwey and Annie-get-your gun-Dalke.
2010 Senior Party
Seminar Advisors Gail and Bethany are all set to toast the Seniors with the appropriately named "Poema" Cava.
Hildi Greenberg, Joci Nelson, and Amanda Darby celebrate with their classmates the completion of their Senior Theses.
2010 Edition of the English Major T-shirt. To order please contact the Senior Reps.
The Crunch: A Thesis Horror Story by Ada Link '09
April 27 Thesis deadline rewarded Seniors with champagne and strawberries.
Professors Beard and Tratner high-fiving the seniors
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While doing research in London, Prof. Kate Thomas was invited to give a talk, titled, “Alimentary” at the Newcastle University Department of English, October 27, 2008. It was taken from her project called "Victorians Fat and Thin: Food, Class and Culture in Victorian Britain."
The talk centered on the literary links between the creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, and another publishing phenomenon of the nineteenth century, Isabella Beeton. Professor Thomas examined Doyle’s interest in Beeton and theorized a relation between the mass market, the culinary, and the production and adjudication of judgment and refinement in the nineteenth century.
To read her article on this subject, see “Alimentary: Arthur Conan Doyle and Isabella Beeton.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 36:2 Fall 2008.
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Live (mediated) Theater:
As part of a weekend screening and performance series, Prof. Rowe's English 225, Introduction to Shakespeare, will be exploring new forms of Shakespearean performance in online worlds this semester. Below, a virtual reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe theater.
Twelfth Night, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest are some of the Shakespeare plays performed in the virtual theaters that Prof. Rowe's students have explored this year.
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Welcome Micah Takada Liu and Nico Takada Liu, born November 18, 2008
Career talk: "Journalism" with Alums Aparna Mukherjee '95 and Neda Ulaby '93
Ulaby speaks to her experience as Cultural Correspondent for NPR, while Mukherjee tells of her varied experiences within print
journalism, ie, the
Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Associated Press, etc. After the well attended Q&A students took
advantage of a one-on-one conversation with the alumnae.
Both Journalists affirmed the merits of a liberal arts education (read english major) for career preparation in print and radio
journalism. Grad schools, free lance writing, blogging, networking, technology, and new media were some of the topics
covered that informed Bi-Co students of the various strategies for entering the field.
The Department of English held a BBQ August 28th to welcome our new faculty member, Hoang Tan Nguyen. Hoang comes to us from U C Berkeley and will be teaching courses in film Studies.
Serious mandolin picker, Dan Torday, and his bluegrass band the "Ida Reds" provided the entertainment.
