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The Harlem Renaissance would certainly seem to be well-defined: the 1920s, the community of Harlem, and African American culture (especially literature). In 1945, she was made Minister of Education (and sole female minister) in Clement Atlee’s Labour government. Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova (in Murphy, ed., Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts) Havelok the Dane (1290s), King Horn (c. 1225), and Sir Orfeo (early 1300s). What makes story-telling in podcasts different from other kinds of story-telling?

GSAS's physical spaces are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: GSAS staff are working remotely and can be reached by email. The Graduate Program in English only admits students to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program. Additional important skills include facility with the tools of scholarship—ancient and modern foreign languages, bibliographic procedures, and textual and editorial methods.

Our image of historical figures is too often foreshortened.

Thus, when the Canaanite woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter, he rebuffs her (twice), declaring that his mission extends “only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” then adding that he mustn’t “take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” The woman, however, is clever and brings Him around: Jesus does heal her daughter. GSAS's physical spaces are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: GSAS staff are working remotely and can be reached by email. But Duncan Porter (PhD ’67, biology) and Peter Graham remind us that when Darwin embarked on his transformative, five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, he was just 22.

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Raised in working-class Manchester, Ellen took a ballistic trajectory from childhood. With the rise of Nazism, her pacifism shifted to anti-fascist resistance. Red Ellen (Harvard University Press, 2016) is an exceptional biography of Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947), the diminutive-but-fiery British radical. She won a university scholarship, discovered socialism and feminism, and ended her fling with the Communist Party by 1924. What is the role of interpretation and the interpreter in accountability?

The GRE General and Subject Tests are not required as part of the English PhD application process. Concentrators may also apply to work on a year-long creative senior thesis with our faculty. The admissions committee carefully examines the overall profile of each applicant, taking all aspects of the application into consideration. The vital presence of creative writing in the department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who offer small, intensive workshops each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and … Laura Beers (PhD ’07, history) brings Wilkinson vividly to life—her devotion to Britain’s working class, outspoken feminism, and globe-spanning outlook. Questions? Her verse circles and recircles the larger enormity, the millions of dead, and how to acknowledge them yet continue living.

Can podcasts do the work of literary criticism?

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She writes of her first experience of deer hunting (in her early 80s, with her son). We’ll discuss some of the most exciting recent literary finds and consider the new vantage they offer on established literary paradigms. Take a look at this year's course offerings. Recommenders should comment not only on the applicant’s academic readiness for our PhD program but also on the applicant’s future potential as teachers and scholars.

Will today’s “knowledge workers” face the same technological decimation that struck assembly-line workers and secretarial pools? Staines contributes an efficient introduction and one of two chapters on the importance of the Canadian setting in Alice Munro’s short stories. While there are no specific prerequisites for admission, a strong language background helps to strengthen the application, and students who lack it should be aware that they will need to address these gaps during their first two years of graduate study. Candidates should submit two double-spaced, 15-page papers of no more than 5,000 words each, in 12-point type with 1-inch margins. Literary scholars and writers sometimes find new documents that change the way we think about authors, texts, periods, and cultural movements. In Only Humans Need Apply (Harper Business, 2016), they show how “smart machines” are displacing workers previously little threatened by automation. In addition, while we encourage applications from candidates in programs other than English, they must have both the requisite critical skills and a foundation in English literature for graduate work in English.

What do these “discoveries” mean? MAP IT. “Embracing the Others” gives voice to this conundrum. 20th Century American Interests: 20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature. 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 350 It should be no longer than 1,000 words. Additional letters from employers may also be included. Beers discusses Wilkinson’s private life but focuses on her public role: few have lived so resolutely in the public sphere. How and why are they important? GSAS regrets that applicants cannot use Interfolio or other recommendation dossier services; recommenders must use the GSAS online recommendation system to submit letters of recommendation. The process begins with the most routinized (often entry-level) tasks. Graduate School of Arts & Sciences HARVARD UNIVERSITY. FAX617-495-2928 The English Language Should we “cancel” them? This week we’ll read about how podcasts are reshaping the story-telling landscape and sample a few favorite examples. Those who already have a research topic in mind should outline it in detail, giving a sense of how they plan their progress through the program. Ancrene Wisse (c. 1230). Biblical humor isn’t laugh-out-loud funny but more a matter of storytelling techniques, such as exaggeration, satire, jarring juxtaposition, and trickery (or tricksters). The writing samples (one primary and one secondary) are highly significant parts of the application. Medieval

The English Department is proud to house Harvard’s creative writing program. (The map appears  in Francis Bicknell Carpenter’s 1864 painting, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.) Criticism and Theory The destination wasn’t Hoffman’s choice but rather her husband’s (who seems oblivious to the enormity of his request). Students must also write a … This week we will think about what to do with writers and books that espouse opinions or advance ethical positions that we do not agree with, support, or condone, or that we see as morally pernicious.
Whether you need inspiration for your personal statement, something to think about before your interview or simply because you are intellectually curious, you might find the suggested reading and resources below useful and entertaining.

GSAS's physical spaces are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: GSAS staff are working remotely and can be reached by email. A melding of literary analysis, biography, and artistic appreciation, The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro (Cambridge University Press, 2016) collects 10 essays, edited by David Staines (PhD ’73, English and American literature and language).

Unspecified Eat, Live, Love, Die includes an appreciation of the lowly hamburger and insightful discussions of, for example, hominy, beefsteak, and oysters, the latter interweaving natural history, the economics of oyster farming, and regional oyster dishes with a tip of the hat to Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” But her most personal and deeply resonant pieces address an altogether different nexus of family and memory. While a candidate's overall GPA is important, it is more important to have an average of no lower than A- in literature (and related) courses. Applicants who have been out of school for several years should try to reestablish contact with former professors. Whether probing Harlem Renaissance literature or changing census definitions of race, Soto’s concern is the sources of racial identity, whether imposed, resisted,  or embraced.

Still, the story leaves an aftertaste: such an un-Christian Jesus! Likewise, our image of Charles Darwin is irrevocably shaped by Julia Cameron Mitchell’s 1868 photograph of an elderly Darwin, a virtual Old  Testament patriarch in jacket and tie.

For more information visit our canvas site: Education: M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge (1988). Two years later, she was dead.

It should give the admissions committee a clear sense of applicants’ individual interests and strengths.
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