Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Dr. Ernest Cole, John Dirk Werkman Professor of English, has taught at Hope College since 2008. His research focuses predominantly on post-apartheid South Africa as well as the intersection between the body and identity. His newest book, Migration …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department On April 1, the Schaap Auditorium filled with students, professors, and community members. Soft conversations drifted throughout the space, periodically broken by bursts of laughter, forming an eager audience for Ananda Lima and Roger Reeves. The auditorium lights …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Dr. Susanna Childress, DuMez Associate Professor of English, has taught at Hope College since 2006. Since 2014, she has served as an advisor of Opus, the campus literary and arts magazine, and in 2017, she became the director …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Professor Gregory Rappleye, an adjunct professor in Hope College’s English Department, is soon to publish his fifth book of poetry, Barley Child, a testament to the history of Irish Americans fighting for place and identity. A mix of …
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Interviewed by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department What do you do now? And we’d love to hear a bit about how you got there as well. After graduating from Hope in 2015, I got my MFA in creative writing (Fiction) from the University of South …
Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department The co-founder of the Visiting Writers Series, Jack Ridl, taught at Hope College from 1971-2006. During this time, Jack mentored many students and fought to bring creative writing to life on Hope’s campus. All the while, Jack poured …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department What class(es) are you teaching this year? What do you love about teaching? Likewise, could you describe what drew you to this field? I love helping emerging writers cultivate a sense of their own authorship and move in …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Alumni Spotlight: Eileen Ellis (’23) What do you do now? And we’d love to hear a bit about how you got there as well. Currently, I am in my first semester in the University of Houston’s M.F.A. in …
By Anna Snader ‘26, English Literature Major and Political Science Minor On September 30th at 7:00 pm, the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series welcomed Heather Sellers, a former Hope professor, and Anna Gazmarian, a 2014 Hope alum, to read their work. After reading Devout by Anna Gazmarian and You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know …
