First: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8NBtPxeR1E and http://www.threequarterale.com/lymaying.html And now: Now is the month of Maying, when grad students are playing! Fa la la la la! Done with each weary class, and semester’s morass, fa la la la la! TAs, clad all in gladness, do laugh at freshmen’s sadness! Fa la la la la! And to alarm clock’s sound, no GAs…
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Since the dawn of time, people have been stressed out during finals week. A plethora of papers must be written and graded, but the reason why it is hard to do all this work is because texting has eroded the verbal skills the older generations think we should have. However, if you take the time…
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This EGSA digest involves a baby. My wit cannot compete with a newborn cuteness, so by way of introduction, I’ll just note that I put the baby at the end. Reading about her will be your reward for studying this week’s fabulous EGSA Digest. BB This week, you should… ATTEND the Student Recognition Tea at…
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Good morning, everyone, If you have not yet picked up your new T-Shirt, the shirts are available in the English Office. Please come by and pick yours up and plan to wear it next Friday, the last day of classes. We will be having our English Student Recognition Tea at 2:30 next Friday afternoon. A…
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It’s that time of year: you sit down to draft a thesis for that big seminar paper, or to begin grading the Babel-high pile on your desk, when it occurs to you that you really should, indeed, must check your email–right now. After nobly resisting the urge for five minutes, you give in and are…
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* Notes from our last EGSA General Meeting (attached) This meeting was so well-attended and lively I didn’t even try to be witty in my notes. Read the attached documents for lots of important information about the identity of EGSA, conference study committees, independent studies, social events, and more. * Note from Dr. Losey concerning…
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NEWS: Prosaic announcements (for mythic retelling, see below) NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, April 7 at 11 AM (Location TBD). We will be discussing many important things regarding next years—EGSA elections, a conference study committee, social events, and more. Come, come, come! NEW EMAIL SCHEDULE: In response to complaints about the number of emails we as grad…
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Ph.D. in English 2 foreign languages Beyond BA (66 hours): 18 seminars (54 hours)— *Old English language *Bibliography and Research *Literary Theory (Literary Criticism) or Linguistics or Rhetoric and Composition 1 course chosen from “English 1†(Old English, Middle English, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century) 1 course chosen from “English 2†(Romantic, Victorian,…
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