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“Shakespeare and Belonging”
Dr. Ruben EspinosaThursday, October 6 at 7 pmWinants Auditorium in Graves Hall The 2022 Clarence De Graaf Memorial Lecture will feature Dr. Ruben Espinosa, associate professor of English and associate director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University. Professor Espinosa’s address is titled “Shakespeare and Belonging.” The lecture will …
English Department Faculty Make Global Connections
Students in some Hope College English courses have the opportunity to study at other colleges around the world without leaving Hope’s campus. Four members of the English department faculty have developed courses in the Global Course Connections program of the Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLAA). In globally connected courses, a Hope professor works with a …
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Vienna Summer School Back in Session
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, Hope College’s Vienna Summer School is back in session! Dr. Stephen Hemenway and Dr. Marla Lunderberg, both from the English Department, left with their students for Austria on Tuesday. Students will be studying at the Austro-American Institute Vienna and living with host families in the area. Dr. Janis …
Get To Know Your English Professors: Round 2!
Here is the second round of #GetToKnowYourProfs! We hope you’ve enjoyed learning more about our faculty! Michael Brooks How long have you been at Hope? I graduated from Hope in 2013 and began teaching here last autumn (2019). Favorite Subject to teach? My favorite class to teach is Outdoor Writing, an ENGL 113 class thematically …
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Get To Know Your Profs: Round 1!
Faculty Fun Facts, Round 1!
“My Summer Vacation”: English Writes Back
Welcome back, people of Hope, and welcome class of 2023! It has been a summer of big changes in the English Department. We’ve said a fond goodbye to retiring professors Beth Trembley and Dianne Portfleet, we’ve regretfully seen Prof. Kendra Parker and office manager Raquel Niles go off to new jobs with our good wishes, …
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“The Art of Attention and a Hope Education”: A Faculty Feature from Alex Mouw (’14)
During the spring of 2014, I’d walk into the south entrance of Lubbers Hall and pass the oil painting of President and Mrs. Lubbers playing a diligent game of chess. I’d round the corner onto the stairs and proceed to the second floor where a cross listed English and philosophy course on Existentialism met each …
“To Reclaim Reading”: A Faculty Feature from Dana VanderLugt (’01)
As an English teacher who races from my 8th grade classroom over to Hope to teach a late afternoon composition class, I spend a lot of my time with young people in life’s messy middles: in the midst of adolescence, in the midst of the semester, in the midst of the academic year. When we’re …
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A Multidisciplinary Student Group Presents at #SAMLA89: An Undergraduate Research Forum Experience
–Dr. Kendra R. Parker The Undergraduate Research Panel, “Gender and Race: Beyond Art, Entertainment, and Fashion” at the 89th Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 89) Convention was the first undergraduate panel I singlehandedly organized and moderated. Twice before, at the College Language Association Convention in 2015 and 2016, I co-organized a cross-campus undergraduate …