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When fictional children become stranger things
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.
Continue ReadingQuestions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?
Continue ReadingEnglish major from The Gambia helps preserve ancient African fables
Fri, 24 Mar 2023
Fatoumatta Jobe is transcribing in Wolof—and then translating into English—centuries-old stories passed down orally.
Continue ReadingMellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups
Fri, 03 Mar 2023
A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.
Continue ReadingThe ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’
Fri, 03 Mar 2023
English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.
Continue ReadingWhy baseball analyst Tim McCarver was the best of the modern era
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith reflects on how the late Hall of Famer brought a cerebral edge to the game he loved.
Continue ReadingHow the Great War altered memory and memorialization
Mon, 31 Oct 2022
English professor Bette London explores the evolution and continued resonance of remembrance rituals in post-World War I Britain in a new book.
Continue ReadingSam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights
Continue ReadingPlutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.
Continue ReadingA baseball call for the ages: Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run
Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith penned an essay for the Library of Congress about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call.
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