{"id":2992,"date":"2020-10-07T21:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=2992"},"modified":"2024-07-29T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T20:39:14","slug":"the-words-september-2020-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/the-words-september-2020-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Words: October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grad Schools Across the Pond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dalton Greene ’22<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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An English degree from Macalester can take graduates to any number of places, including, for some, to other countries entirely. I caught up with Mac English alumnae and former <\/span>Words<\/span><\/i>writers Zeena Fuleihan \u201918 and Miriam Moore-Keish \u201919, both of whom recently earned master\u2019s degrees in England, via email to discuss their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zeena Fuleihan \u201918<\/strong> completed an MA in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory at King\u2019s College London earlier this year and is now a PhD student in Literature at Duke University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miriam Moore-Keish \u201819<\/strong> spent the past year studying for an MPhil in Critical Approaches to Children\u2019s Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read their interviews…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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English Department Welcomes New Visiting Assistant Professor Melissa Merte<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Alice Asch ’22<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If it\u2019s been your life\u2019s dream to read a 19th century sensation novel about fraudulent marriages, you\u2019re in luck! Melissa Merte has joined the English Department faculty as a visiting assistant professor this semester, and she is currently guiding her \u201cNovel: Madness and Anger as Transgression\u201d class through the thrills of<\/span> Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i> by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. <\/span>Read more about Professor Merte\u2026<\/span><\/a>  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Talks Create Community Space<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Teddy Holt ’22<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Community building is the name of the\u00a0<\/span>game this semester at Macalester. It\u2019s hard to create informal relationships between students, or students and professors, when we aren\u2019t in physical space together! One way the English Department is looking to create those bonds is by holding space in the Lounge for various \u201cbook talks\u201d hosted by bookstores, journals, and universities online. We want to support English majors and other students in finding books and topics that excite them\u2014just because there\u2019s a pandemic doesn\u2019t mean that we can\u2019t gather together to enjoy and think about writing. Read more about future programming…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wordplay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm Cooke ’21<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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With the dawn of a new month and our first full issue, The Words<\/i> is thrilled to present this semester\u2019s first edition of Wordplay, featuring the writing of Zoelle Collins \u201921. Hailing from Salem, Oregon, she is majoring in Religious Studies and English Literature. Currently taking her Creative Writing Capstone with Marlon James, she is trying to explore the idea of conflict avoidance, and the havoc it wreaks in personal relationships. Today she is bringing us \u201cAce Hardware: An Essay,\u201d which she wrote for Salley Franson\u2019s Narrative Non-Fiction course about the local hardware store of the Mac-Groveland area. Ruminating on the space, it explores ideas of tangibility, deadlines, and permanence. Read her essay…<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grad Schools Across the Pond Dalton Greene ’22 An English degree from Macalester can take graduates to any number of places, including, for some, to other countries entirely. I caught up with Mac English alumnae and former Wordswriters Zeena Fuleihan \u201918 and Miriam Moore-Keish \u201919, both of whom recently earned master\u2019s degrees in England, via […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2992\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}