News, Publications, and Presentations

Emily Grace (Ph.D. candidate) presented a paper titled "Music as Freedom, Music as Limitation in the Work of James Joyce" at the College English Association's Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

Annesley Anderson’s (PhD student) essay “Parables of Modern Belief in Philip Roth and Graham Greene” won the Siegel/McDaniel Award for graduate research on Philip Roth.

Matthew Ryan (Ph.D. student) presented a paper on TS Eliot's use of myth to influence Robert Hayden at the recent Northeast MLA meeting in Philadelphia.

Sarah Zentner (Ph.D. Candidate) has accepted a full-time English teaching position at Oakcrest School for the 2025-2026 school year.

Events

Join English Society for our final book discussion of the year: Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin.

“But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.” 

Monday, April 28th 3pm, McMahon B6 (English Department Conference Room)

"Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935."

All members of the CUA community - current students, faculty, staff, and alumni - are warmly invited - you don't have to be an English major to join us! https://cua.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10927553

 

Please join the Vermilion staff in celebrating the publication of Volume 8: Spring 2025! Come hear some of our published authors and artists read and discuss their work at our launch party on Wednesday, April 23rd from 9:40-11am in Pryz 321/323. All are welcome and refreshments will be served! vermilion.catholic.edu