In my post last week about advice for undergraduates, Katie Weakland shared a comment that I thought was particularly apt: I suggest meeting your major professors early in your career - your first semester - and asking them to mentor you and/or let you do research with them. The early you can get your feet wet with research the better. I also suggest reading the primary literature in your field as soon as possible. Meeting your professors and starting research early are both very important (I have stories I could … [Read more...] about Reading Lists and Primary Literature
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Remembering Updike
I feel I am closest to God when writing. You're singing praises. You're describing the world, as it is. And even if the passages turn out sordid or depressing, there's something holy about the truth -- John Updike, commenting when interviewed for NPR's 'Tell Me A Story,' as reflected upon by the host, Marjorie Leet Ford, March 31, 2003.* Over breakfast this morning, I read the NY Times article A Relentless Updike Mapped America's Mysteries. In addition, I watched the brief, but stimulating October 2008 interview of … [Read more...] about Remembering Updike
Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture
ESN member Madelaine Hron, assistant professor in the Department of English and Film at Wilfrid Lauriern University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), just announced the release of Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture (University of Toronto Press, February 12, 2009). The book cover, the book title, and previous conversations with the author (extending back to her 2004-2005 post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University), led me to ask her whether she would be willing to share about her work with ESN. … [Read more...] about Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture
Happy Birthday, John!
Today is John Milton's 400th birthday - or, rather, would have been. If you choose to celebrate this occasion, you can visit the John Milton Reading Room at Dartmouth, which contains ALL of Milton's poetry (in English, Italian, Latin, and Greek) and selections from his prose, along with annotations. (HT: The Wired Campus) … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday, John!
A Faith and Culture Devotional
New from Zondervan, A Faith and Culture Devotional seems custom-made for ESN members. Edited by Kelly Monroe Kullberg (of the Veritas Forum, Finding God at Harvard, Finding God Beyond Harvard, and, most recently, InterVarsity's Women in the Academy and Professions) and Lael Arrington (host of the radio show The Things That Matter Most), the devotional is designed to be read daily for 15 weeks. Each week, there is one reading from seven different subject areas: theology, history, philosophy, science, literature, arts, … [Read more...] about A Faith and Culture Devotional