Professor Susan Farrell recently delivered a public lecture for the General Studies Program at New York Unviersity. The lecture, "The Memory of Vietnam - The Literature," closed a three-lecture series, which was entitled 40 Years After Tet – The Memory of Vietnam. Farrell is pictured above with historian Rolf Wolfswinkel, who organized and moderated the series.
- Read a brief essay by Farrell on the Literature of the Vietnam War from the CofC website, The Vietnam War: 25 Years After.
- See the
40 Years After Tet flyer (.doc).
Assistant Professor and fiction editor for Crazyhorse joins a group of distinguished writers as the 28th winner of the $15,000 Drue Heinz LIterature Prize for his manuscript collection of short stories, Out Loud, to be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press next fall. Scott Turow, judge for the prize, says of Varallo's collection, “The stories in Out Loud are just awfully damn good. They are the work of a very talented and accomplished writer. As a group, they seem to be runners off the same root themes and thus as you’d hope, the book is even greater that the sum of its parts.”
Read the press release from the University of Pittsburgh Press
Read an article on Varallo in The Pitt News
On Wednesday, February 6, English department faculty and students joined CofC's One Pride, One House initiative to build a Habitat for Humanity house for the Nelson family. They nailed, held ladders, hefted boards, detached braces, cleaned up, and left tired but happy (and all this with only one minor injury!).
See pictures of English faculty and students in action.
Read more about the One House, One Pride initiative and progress on the house, Habitat for Humanity, and the Nelson family.
Last Summer, seven English faculty members collaborated with their students on an impressive array of research projects funded by the College's competitive SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty) grant program. They presented their findings and plans for further research and collaboration at the SURF poster session in August. Go to the department 's SURF 2007 webpage to read more about the projects.
Susan Farrell Speaks on Vietnam War Literature at New York University 
Tony Varallo Wins the Drue Heinz Literature Prize 
Blitz Build!: English Faculty and Students Help Build a Habitat for Humanity House
A Look Back at the Summer: Students and Faculty Collaborate on Research