Provoking and coping through light verse
Rochester English instructor ‘explores the lighter side of dark times’ with her latest collection of poems.
How Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse was found in translation
Open Letter’s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences—and the importance of foreign translation presses today.
The ‘first English language trans novel,’ adapted for stage
The International Theatre program’s production of Orlando promises “a wild ride” and a serious reflection on the fluidity of identity.
When fictional children become stranger things
Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.
Questions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel
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?
English major from The Gambia helps preserve ancient African fables
Fatoumatta Jobe is transcribing in Wolof—and then translating into English—centuries-old stories passed down orally.
Mellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups
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.
Russell Peck: The ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’
English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.
Why baseball analyst Tim McCarver was the best of the modern era
Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith reflects on how the late Hall of Famer brought a cerebral edge to the game he loved.
How the Great War altered memory and memorialization
English professor Bette London explores the evolution and continued resonance of remembrance rituals in post-World War I Britain in a new book.