The Daily Campus Originally Posted: November 16, 2015 An SMU English professor and a couple of his students have taken the American literary classic “Moby Dick” and created a game. A card game simply called “Dick.” Professor Tim Cassedy came up with the idea for the game while teaching a “Moby Dick” seminar class at […]
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Victorian Viral Virulence, Post Modern Zombies, and the American Healthcare Enterprise with Dr. M.K. Nixon, Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow Event Date: Thursday, Nov 19 Time: 6pm Location: McCord Auditorium For more information: mfelipe@smu.edu
SMU News Originally Posted: Nov. 10, 2015 Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen of George Washington University, who specializes in medieval studies, ecotheory, posthumanism and the history of monsters, will speak on “Noah’s Ark — Figuring Climate Change” at SMU on Thursday, Nov. 12. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be at […]
Inside Dedman College Originally Published: November 5, 2015 Bonnie Wheeler, Associate Professor and Director of Medieval Studies, was given a “40 years at SMU” party this August, and it came with a joyful twist: hosts Kathryn and Stephen Arata announced their intent to establish The Bonnie Wheeler Centennial Professorship in Medieval European Literature. The professorship […]
Wall Street Journal Originally Posted: October 29, 2015 The German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) called his life’s work “People of the Twentieth Century.” In “Emblems of the Passing World,” the poet Adam Kirsch reproduces 46 images from what he terms Sander’s “massive portfolio of documentary portraits.” More compellingly, he adds poetic commentaries on these studies […]
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 2:00PM 3:00PM DALLAS HALL 1ST FLOOR ATRIUM Dedman College, the heart of SMU houses the vital disciplines the underlie great accomplishment. Denman College offers 85 exciting majors and minors in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Their award winning faculty will be available to discuss their teaching and research interests. READ […]
Washington Post Originally Posted: October 15, 2015 Rereading passages of “Moby-Dick,” I have no idea how my old English teacher once kept 20 hormonal teenagers from staging a mutiny of bawdy wisecracks. It helped, I suppose, that ours was a very conservative Christian prep school. If any of us was tempted to see risque puns […]
North Dallas Gazette Originally Posted: October 11, 2015 The SMU Dedman College Alumni Connection Series of lectures will launch its 2015-16 series in mid-October when alumnus and entrepreneur Matt Alexander ’10 takes the stage at Vester Hughes Auditorium in SMU’s Caruth Hall. Alexander will discuss how the lessons he learned at SMU about innovation, English, […]
As SMU professor Willard Spiegelman leaves the editorship of The Southwest Review, after 32 years, and contemplates a retirement from teaching as well, after 45 years, former students organized an alumni reunion in his honor on Friday, September 25 at 5 p.m. in Dallas Hall. [youtube]https://youtu.be/-OWr3qwAPY0?list=PLMzxeB_GMVvDhBmvdtDHXX6G0vZzm5sAd[/youtube]
SMU NEWS Originally Posted: September 17, 2015 Dallas (SMU) – When the week of Sept. 25 rolls around, SMU won’t be the only Hilltop institution celebrating its centennial. The Southwest Review, SMU’s nationally renowned literary journal, is turning 100, too, and launching a fundraiser to support its future. “One-hundred years, for any magazine, is remarkable,” […]