Sentences with phrase «english literature professor»

It is the story of Thelonius «Monk» Ellison, a black English literature professor and author who is attempting to manage familial and professional troubles.

The Gambler is a film about an English literature professor with a dark side, a gambling addiction that has gotten him into debt with Los Angeles gangsters to the tune of $ 240,000.

Fey stars as Portia Nathan, an admissions officer at Princeton University who spends her days diligently poring over student applications and her nights with her dull, longtime boyfriend Mark (Michael Sheen), who also works at the university as an English literature professor.

It follows the journey of English Literature professor and specialist of John Donne, Vivian Bearing, as she discovers that she has stage four ovarian cancer and undergoes radical treatment, in part for the sake of research.

I remember the story of the college English literature professor who explained to his class the meaning of a particular selection of contemporary prose.

But I have heard stories that former English literature professors are leaving their posts at universities in order to become Bitcoin players — This is a mania.

The broad humour and cultural caricatures in the film's opening moments will be especially dispiriting to any English literature professors in the audience.

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Both men, from their differing perspectives on culture — Berger as a sociologist of religion and Lewis as a professor of English literature — have allowed play to be the activity we have described in Chapter Two.

According to writer Harry Lee Poe, the Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University, C.S. Lewis addressed the people of Iceland in a broadcast called «The Norse Spirit in English Literature» that was absolutely essential in warding off German invasion in Denmark and the rest of Europe.

What if I were a prestigious Oxford don, a professor of English literature, a well - known author, and an authority on religion who repeatedly had some most unusual, unbelievable experiences?

All this while being an award - winning scholar, a published poet and, oh yeah, a department chair and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University.

Dr. Johnson was the greatest English professor who ever lived» the great cham of literature, to whom all turned.»

Using the subject of sex as an example, when an English professor would discuss sexual symbolism in various literature, they tended to giggle uncontrollably.

Until her appointment, Abena was an associate professor of Literature in English, and of women and gender studies at Rutgers University at New Jersey, America.

Oh, the Academy Award nominee then teams up with actual Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins («Noah»), a crusty old British lord, and a comely professor of English Literature (Laura Haddock, «The Inbetweeners Movie») to search for and retrieve the missing artifact before Optimus and Megatron and whomever else get to it.

Rosemary Johnston is Professor of Education and Culture at University of Technology Sydney, a former English and history high school teacher who's written several books on literacy for teachers and has a forthcoming book on Australian children's literature.

«It's what always tends to happen when you get a bunch of English professors together — they always think everyone is going to study literature in college,» says Baize.

The only English professor on the committee, Dr. Sandra Stotsky, explains that common core is unlikely to prepare students for college and will stunt students» critical thinking skills by replacing much classic literature with informational reading such as EPA regulations.

Sylvia M. Vardell, a professor of children's and young adult literature at Texas Woman's University, is the author of the Poetry for Children blog and coeditor (with Janet Wong) of The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations: Holiday Poems for the Whole Year in English and Spanish (2015).

One speaker, a professor of English at the University of Toronto named Heather Jackson, argued that marginalia by everyday people, not just celebrities, is important to understanding literature.

The poetry lover, backcountry educator, and Professor of Ecology holds a B.A. in English Literature from University of British Columbia and a M.Div.

Freelance writer and retired professor of English and children's literature from Indiana University Northwest, Mary Harris Russell is a regular contributor to Tribune newspapers.

Bryce Christensen, who is an associate professor of English at Southern Utah University, received his PhD in English literature from Marquette University.

...» She is a professor of English Literature at a university near Venice and also the crime reviewer for the Sunday Times newspaper (UK), and an expert on opera.

Louise DeSalvo, winner of the Laura Pizer Prize in Creative Nonfiction, is professor of English and Jenny Hunter Endowed Scholar for Literature and Creative Writing at Hunter College.

Mark McGurl, an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of a forthcoming book on the impact of creative writing programs on postwar American literature, agrees that writing programs have helped expand the literary universe.

Becky Jo Gesteland is a professor of English at Weber State University, where she teaches classes in American literature and technical writing.

One example featured below is a literary map of England prepared by William Lyon Phelps, an American author and professor of English literature.

Marie is now a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Renaissance drama, children's literature, and fiction writing.

Join rangers and special guests (Steve Schwartz, a former archaeologist with the U.S. Navy on San Nicolas Island, and Sara Schwebel, an Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina) on a curriculum - based virtual hike on Anacapa Island to learn about learn about the Channel Islands» tie to the book Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Koestenbaum is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City.

Sharon Marcus is Dean of Humanities at Columbia University, where she is also the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature.

A graduate of Boston University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Clover is a Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, and was the distinguished Holloway poet - in - residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 - 2003.

Eleanor Kaufman is professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning Novelist — Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — will be at CCAD in conversation with Jared Gardner, Professor in OSU's Department of English & the Film Studies Program, regarding the nexus between film and screen writing, comics, and literature.

Katherine Stubbs is associate professor of English at Colby College, where she teaches eighteenth and nineteenth - century US American literature; she recently developed a course on US Orientalisms and Arab American literature.

Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of English Literature and Art History at the University of Chicago, in consultation with Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Mellon Program Coordinator.

Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College, London.

Robert O'Malley, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, wrote the catalog for the gallery show and is curating the current Columbia exhibition.

Robert G. O'Meally, the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and curator of the exhibition, suggests a still broader context to Bearden's series, which assures us that the search for home, family and a sense of belonging is central to self - discovery for all modern - day Americans regardless of race.

Until recently Professor of Art History, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the Advanced Institute of the Arts of Toulouse, France, Morad Montazami has a Masters degree In English literature and civilisation (LLCE) from the University of Nanterre, Paris and is about to complete his PhD in History and Theory of Art at the École des hautes études en science sociales (EHESS).

In «Painting in Sound,» a 1985 essay by John A. Williams published in Black American Literature Forum, the professor of English and journalism at Rutgers University writes that Middleton «thought then that the music was so fantastic that it ought to be in color.»

Curated by Robert G. O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, the exhibition includes over fifty rarely - exhibited works on the theme of the Black Odyssey.

MARY ANN CAWS is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

And no wingeing about BBC R4's Open Book in which Adam Roberts, professor of English literature at London University and sci - fi author, addresses a question from listener Elizabeth Thorne:

Best historical literature: A tie between Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America and Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

What professors and schools might not tell their students is if the student pursued a philosophy or English literature major, it might be up to them to seek the elective classes or train themselves outside of work in the skills that employers will expect them to have.

Kalamazoo About Blog A Shakespeare scholar and editor, a professor of English at Western Michigan University, and the author of two nonfiction works on Renaissance literature and culture, Grace Tiffany uses fiction as an additional medium for exploring the early modern world.