Monthly Archive: April, 2018

2018 Magliocco Lecture: Dr. Adrienne Brown

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What do you think of when you look at a skyscraper? Perhaps you imagine the view from the top floor, or maybe you visualize the impressive skyline a group of skyscrapers can make. But… Continue reading

Conference Craze: My Experience Attending the National NCTE and National Sigma Tau Delta Conferences

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As English majors, all of us are familiar with the amount of dedication, sweat, and tears it takes to write a solid essay or create a complex project. Many times, these projects and… Continue reading

Proust Questionnaire: Dr. Rahman

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Shazia Rahman loves to teach and to learn. She is a postcolonial ecocritic, and she is in the process of publishing her first book while writing her second. Time spent in her office… Continue reading

Webtoons: My New Literary Obsession!

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  It is 1:00 in the morning. I am staring at my phone, completely  transfixed and seemingly dead-eyed, but my mind is racing. I scroll to the the next panel  in the online… Continue reading

Little Free library Restoration: Sigma Tau Delta at Work

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Under the cover of twilight on the edge of a damp and chilly evening in February, a group of people snuck onto the sidewalk of an unassuming YMCA carrying tools of all shapes.… Continue reading

Proust Questionnaire with Dr. Roberta Di Carmine.

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Proust Questionnaire with Dr. Roberta Di Carmine             Dr. Roberta Di Carmine is a professor at Western Illinois University. She has been teaching film at Western for eleven years and is the director… Continue reading

Malpass Library: More than the Stacks

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The Malpass library is the beating heart of academia at WIU. Standing tall at the center of campus, the library is so much more than just a building; it’s a home. I have… Continue reading