Author Mary Higgins Clark, Alumna and Former Trustee, Dies at 92
Mary Higgins Clark, FCLC ’79, a former Fordham trustee and prolific writer known worldwide as…
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Author Lee Child Celebrates Higgins Clark Creative Writing Chair
On Oct. 6, an inaugural event celebrating the Mary Higgins Clark Chair in Creative Writing…
GSAS Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Transform Doctoral Programs
A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is placing the Graduate School…
The Graduate School Mess
The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It by Leonard Cassuto, professor…
Pushing Professors to Rethink their Role in Graduate School
The numbers tell us that graduate school is in real trouble. Too many students take…
Disgust is Appealing, at Least if You’re Trying to Understand People, Psychologist Says
To illustrate the nature of disgust, Dean McKay holds up an untarnished blue pen and poses a…
Scholar Traces Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism to 19th-Century Reading Habits
Evangelical Christians have long acknowledged that anti-intellectualism has plagued their religious tradition. As Evangelical historian…
A Call to Arms at the Academy
Leonard Cassuto delivers the English Dept.’s Sixth Inaugural Lecture Photo by Tom Stoelker In…
Top Ten Hard-Boiled Crime Novels
January marks the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, but it is also the month that…
A Nod to the Hard-Boiled Crime Novel
January marks the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, but it is also the month that…