SMU News Originally Posted: November 23, 2015 The upcoming movie, The Heart of the Sea, promises to offer a classy, high-brow and potentially Oscar-worthy take on the whale hunt that inspired Henry Melville’s classic novel, Moby Dick. For folks who still giggle at the title there’s another way to enjoy Melville’s classic this winter: DICK, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
SMU Alumnus Matt Alexander discusses the college lessons that launched his entrepreneurial career Lecture will kick start Dedman College Alumni Connection Series Originally Posted: October 6, 2015 DALLAS (SMU) – 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 […]
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 Daily Campus Originally Posted: September 10, 2015 On Wednesday, Sept. 2, dean Thomas DiPiero of SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences hosted a lecture discussing Harper Lee’s newest novel “To Go Set A Watchmen.” To celebrate the 55th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Lee released the story’s […]