I have sometimes felt a significant amount of displeasure while reading workshop pieces. And, for particularly painful ones, when it’s time to take them back to the classroom, I’ve found myself wishing that I’d gotten drunk beforehand, and I don’t like to drink unless there’s a good reason. I get itchy in my seat, and [...]
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WR600 or: How I learned to stop worrying and love workshop drafts.
March 22nd, 2010 2 Comments
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Professor Profile: Jeff Seglin
September 12th, 2009 No Comments
Let’s just be honest here: it takes a lot to get me off my ass. I’m not lazy, per se, just not an “above and beyond” kind of girl. (Feel free to disagree here.) But when I finished Jeff Seglin’s column writing class and had already published two small pieces, I began to suspect subliminal [...]
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Professor Profile: Robert Dulgarian
September 11th, 2009 No Comments
My dirty little secret as an Emerson grad student is that once, many years ago, before I’d cultivated the maturity and thoughtfulness with which I am now clearly brimming… I was an Emerson undergrad. Only for two years, and then I transferred out to finish my BA elsewhere, and I swear I never smoked a [...]
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The Culture Club: Summer Edition
May 27th, 2009 1 Comment
Yesterday was the first meeting of my summer class, David Emblidge’s travel literature. We went over the syllabus, ate cookies, and took a field trip to the Common to check out one of the Civil War monuments. During our class discussion, David made sure to emphasize that we should be framing the class in terms [...]
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Life Lessons from Books
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
In Roy Kamada’s Pacific Scatterings: Asian Diaspora class that I’m currently taking, one of the common themes throughout all the readings is the construction of identity. Now, of course, there are an uncountable number of forces working around us, shaping the people we will become, whether we know it or not.
All this talk of why [...]
Tags: books · emerson courses · literary taste · patrick · reading · reading habits
Judging books by their covers
April 6th, 2009 4 Comments
Recently in Desktop Publishing, we completed a project that involved redesigning the cover of a book of our choice. As I clicked around a few blogs dedicated to the subject of book cover design, I started thinking about how important a cover really is. It has say something about the book, literally or symbolically, but [...]
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Hot Reads: Blogs That Sizzle
January 6th, 2009 1 Comment
What kind of reading material can you never have too much of? You guessed it: blogs! Well, perhaps that’s not true– several blogs out there are quite tiresome, verbose, or irrelevant. HOWEVER, not here! We at Vernacular only choose the wittiest, sharpest, and quirkiest blogs to peruse, so here are two [...]
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On Comprehension
September 27th, 2008 1 Comment
It’s that time of year, again, when the WLP grad student begins to run up against the most dreaded of all grad school assignments: the reading response paper. This peculiar genre of essay is usually assigned by lit professors eager to provide extra motivation for students to actually do the reading on time, rather than [...]
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Professor Reviews: Nonfiction For Everyone!
September 13th, 2008 No Comments
In my adventures in writing and literary publishing, I have found that creative nonfiction tends to be the lesser-known of the three genres, with fiction and poetry taking center stage in flashy colors and well-known author names. But at Emerson College, the professors teaching nonfiction are truly among the best and the brightest—and as [...]
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Professor Reviews: Donoghue, Trimbur, and English
September 11th, 2008 No Comments
Bill Donoghue (literature)
Bill is one of those rare breeds: a Canadian who is not perpetually apologetic and doesn’t shy from Hawaiian shirts or jaunty hats. His speciality is the novel, its history, and its secrets, topics on which he can launch impassioned disquisitions for hours on end. The atmosphere in his classes tends to be [...]
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