When Music and Words Collide
Until the mid-to-late 20th century, discussions about words and music in opera and art song—vocal…
Browsing: Faculty Reads
England Was a Proving Ground for Early Jesuits
In the first century of the Society of Jesus, when Jesuits took their missionary work…
Emotions, From Personal and Private to Cultural and Public
Emotional Lives: Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media (Cambridge, 2017), a new…
Preaching to the Choir, and Others
Some of us may have sat through a homily that goes on too long, a…
The “Pleasure of Literature” Principle
When you derive pleasure from reading literature, reciting poetry, and/or watching a play it must…
English Professors Edit Annual Journal on James Joyce
Sir Tom Stoppard, British playwright and screenwriter, described James Joyce as “an essentially private man,…
Book Highlights Common Threads of European Heretics
Before Martin Luther, there was John Wyclif. The 14th-century English theologian and professor was a…
Historian Co-Edits Essay Collection on Historical Ireland
Christopher Maginn, Ph.D., professor of history, draws parallels between the Tudor experience in 16th-century Ireland…
Professors’ Book Assays the Films of Krzysztof Kieślowski
A little more than a decade ago, English professor Philip Sicker, Ph.D., organized a faculty…
Healing Catholic Polarization Through Discussion
With rising topics such as gender rights, sexual fluidity, and poverty under discussion, the U.S.…