Around the world with Lisa Eck
It is a long way from Lisa Eck’s birthplace of Rock Island, Illinois to the Indian Himalayas. Before and during teaching at FSU, Eck has embarked on multiple continent-charting journeys. This cosmopolitan focus has […]
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Gatepost Interview: Kelly Matthews, English professor
What is your educational and professional background? I went to college at Harvard and I majored in English. I wrote my senior honors thesis about W. B. Yeats, which I guess was a turning point. […]
Gatepost Interview: Mona Awad, English professor
What is your professional and educational background? I’m a novelist, so I wrote a novel in 2016 called, “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.” It came out with Penguin. Then I wrote my […]
Gatepost Interview: Kristen Abbott Bennett, English professor
What is your educational and professional background? I went to Syracuse as an undergraduate and that’s how I decided that I wanted to pursue a Ph.D. in literature. I was very interested in critical theory […]
Writers showcase work during poetry week
By Allison Wharton Asst. Arts & Features Editor Nadira Wicaksana Staff Writer Framingham State hosted their first annual poetry week in whuch professors read their works. The week will end with a poetry slam on […]
Disability and self-identity: Writing a memoir
Patricia Horvath has written about a shrinking woman in her fiction, but now she has written about another in her nonfiction – herself. Horvath, an English professor here at FSU and author of the forthcoming […]
Destination India: Students study abroad for 20 days with Professor Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck was walking through a temple in Delhi, India with 18 FSU students and children from a local orphanage when something went wrong. The voice in the temple which explained the exhibits started narrating […]
Gatepost Interview: Claudia Springer English Professor
What is your educational background and resume? I received my B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. The B.A. was in comparative literature. I read literature in English, French and German. … I learned English […]