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He sat behind a table decorated with twinkling lights, selling the rhyming books his sister had published \u2014 Snuggle Bunny<\/em>, You\u2019re My Boo<\/em> and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car<\/em>. A rising star in the children\u2019s book world, Kate had signed a deal for her fourth book, but the young author died at age 43 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare degenerative disease, in October 2018. Though she will never see it in print, Hurry Up: A Book about Slowing Down <\/em>is scheduled for release this spring (2020).<\/p>\n Famous Pittsburgh writers such as Jonathan Auxier (Sweep, The Night Gardener<\/em>) and Sharon Flake (The Skin I\u2019m In<\/em>) participated to honor the author with the radiant smile and rhyming prose. Twenty-five authors and illustrators participated. Many had known Kate as a friend and encouraging mentor through her leadership role in the Society of Children\u2019s Book Authors and Illustrators.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was awesome participation from the children\u2019s lit community,\u201d said Kate\u2019s husband, Josh Dopirak, also a 1998 Allegheny graduate. The event benefited Reading is Fundamental, one of Kate\u2019s favorite charities where a fund was established in her name.<\/p>\n \u201cWriting is not an easy life. There is a lot of rejection and disappointment,\u201d said Betsy Fitzpatrick, co-organizer of the event and a writer-friend of Kate. \u201cKate mentored other writers and helped them through the process. Everyone loved her for her bubbly personality, but she was one of the best critical thinkers I\u2019ve ever met. She made a difference to everyone she met either by the impact she had on your work or how she made she feel as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate developed some of those critical thinking skills at Allegheny College, where she studied English and education. She found inspiration in a creative writing class she took there, said her husband, Josh. She was both a serious student and very social, making many friends in her sorority of Kappa Kappa Gamma and elsewhere on campus.<\/p>\n \u201cShe had this most infectious smile and great laugh. There was just something about her spirit that would draw people in,\u201d said Beth Cuneo Dopirak, her roommate at Allegheny. \u201cShe loved the tight-knit community of Allegheny.\u201d After Kate began dating Josh her senior year, she introduced Beth to his brother, Ryan, knowing he would be the perfect match for her. The best friends would become sisters-in-law after college.<\/p>\n After graduation, Kate became an elementary school teacher in Hampton School District. She then started writing poems and short stories in Highlights magazine and slice-of-life columns for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n But the path to getting published as a picture-book writer took years. She ignored the common advice that agents and editors give writers: Don\u2019t do rhyming verse. One of the hardest things to do well, rhyming stories often come out forced. \u201cBut Kate was true to herself,\u201d Fitzpatrick said. \u201cShe liked rhyme and it was her strong suit. She stuck with it thankfully because now the world has her books.\u201d<\/p>\n She would write every day, and also read to her two boys, Joey and Bobby, daily.<\/p>\n Kate was so dedicated to her craft that she would file her rejection letters from agents and editors in a binder, absorbing the feedback and making changes. \u201cShe would get frustrated at times but she would just go forward,\u201d Josh said.<\/p>\n When Kate finally broke into the children\u2019s book market, it happened swiftly. She signed with an agent at Adams Literary, and just three weeks later, she landed a deal with Scholastic for Snuggle Bunny<\/em>, which was published in 2016. \u201cShe was surprised and ecstatic,\u201d Josh said.<\/p>\n Then came more rejection. \u201cShe went through three years when she didn\u2019t sell anything,\u201d Josh said. \u201cWhat was important was that the children\u2019s writing community was supportive and encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n That support went two ways. As her star rose as she published You\u2019re My Boo<\/em> and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car<\/em>, she mentored other writers.<\/p>\n Kelly Riehl Conroy \u201998 met Kate during her first year at Allegheny and became closer with her after graduation as she sought advice about writing. The two bonded as Kate critiqued her work and celebrated all of her small victories along the way. Conroy, in turn, helped Kate do book launch parties.<\/p>\n \u201cKatie taught me that to be a better writer, you have to tap into the weirdest, most embarrassing parts of you to find your unique stories and voice,\u201d Conroy said. \u201cShe was always sophisticated, poised, and cool. I assumed my goofiness and immaturity made us a bad friend match, but I was wrong. She not only liked but celebrated the weirdness in me. She turned my insecurities into my strengths and helped me be more \u2018me.\u2019 She didn\u2019t love people despite their bumps and bruises, she loved people because of them.\u201d<\/p>\n The day after Kate\u2019s Kid Book Bash, Conroy got an offer from an agent and is now represented.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was my cheerleader and my teacher,\u201d Conroy said. \u201cShe really took me under my wing. She was always building everyone else up.\u201d<\/p>\n In an era of email and texts, Kate sent handwritten notes to writers, encouraging them on their road to publishing. Fitzpatrick once got a card with a big sun on it, telling her how proud Kate was of all the hard work she was putting into a middle-grade novel that was still very much a work in progress. \u201cWho does that?\u201d Fitzpatrick said. \u201cIt was very Kate.\u201d<\/p>\n Beth Dopirak also got notes from her former college roommate and sister-in-law. Beth and other sorority sisters participated in Strides for CJD, a walk\/run fundraiser, in Pittsburgh in 2019. They formed a team called \u201cKappas for Katie.\u201d<\/p>\n Those who couldn\u2019t make the walk donated to the team. \u201cEveryone in their own way tried to honor Kate,\u201d Beth said. \u201cShe was so beloved.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not every day that a city names a day after a children\u2019s book author. But Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto declared December 8, 2019, Kate Dopirak Day as her fellow writers came together to hold a children\u2019s book festival in her honor. Kate\u2019s Kid Book Bash, held inside the Ace Hotel in Pittsburgh, was a […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “City of Pittsburgh Honors Allegheny Graduate and Author Posthumously”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4766,"date":"2019-11-19T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2019-11-19T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T23:24:00","slug":"meet-doctor-sparks-an-allegheny-graduate-who-uses-stories-to-teach-science-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2019\/11\/19\/meet-doctor-sparks-an-allegheny-graduate-who-uses-stories-to-teach-science-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Doctor Sparks, an Allegheny Graduate Who Uses Stories to Teach Science to Kids"},"content":{"rendered":" Karl Smith has a doctorate in biophysics from the University of Rochester. He also worked at Amazon as a software engineer trying to make the Alexa voice assistant smarter. But now Smith is putting his talents to better use, he says, as a children\u2019s science storyteller. He describes his new calling as \u201cMister Rogers meets Bill Nye.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith calls his alter ego Doctor Sparks. \u201cHoo boy,\u201d he says, \u201cthere\u2019s a story behind that. It\u2019s not a short story though. Let me just say that I earned the name Sparks, and I earned it on a lonesome walk through the New Mexican high desert that lasted for three sleepless days.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith, a 2011 Allegheny graduate, lives in the Pittsburgh area and does most of his 50-minute shows at elementary and middle schools. But he also has appeared at events such as the World Scout Jamboree 2019 and at institutions like the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh and the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.<\/p>\n Smith also delivered a TEDx talk when he was making national news as a graduate student in Rochester writing short stories about people\u2019s lives for 10 cents each on a vintage typewriter.<\/p>\n After finishing his doctorate, he spent some time developing a murder mystery smartphone app and putting together a proposed television pilot, in which he started his Doctor Sparks persona. \u201cThe basic idea was to use my typewriter-stories project as a way to teach science concepts,\u201d Smith says.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when he got the Amazon job offer. \u201cI moved to the West Coast, became a professional software developer, took up surfing, and in my free time began to put together the live science storytelling show I now tour with,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n A little more than a year later, he moved back to Pittsburgh with his fiancee to become a professional storyteller.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile I was at Allegheny, I spent my summers working as a historical interpreter at a Boy Scout ranch in the Sangre de Christo Mountains of New Mexico,\u201d Smith says. \u201cEvery night in front of a campfire, I would tell stories about what it was like to be a logger in the year 1914, and it\u2019s there that storytelling took hold of me.\u201d<\/p>\n So now Smith travels extensively, spreading scientific knowledge to youngsters as Doctor Sparks. Most of the presentations are in the Pittsburgh area; he toured Rochester and upstate New York schools in November, and in February 2020 he will tour Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Charlotte, North Carolina. He brings a number of props, including \u201csmart\u201d hula hoops, pogo sticks, juggling balls, teddy bears and inflating robotic muffin hats.<\/p>\n The science concepts he teaches include thermodynamics \u2014 particularly what heat actually is and how a hot air balloon works, motion and energy, illumination, and fractions, among other things. \u201cGenerally I pick a particular next generation science standard or common core curriculum idea, and find a way to spin a story around the concept,\u201d he says. You can find out more about the show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Allegheny Professor of English Benjamin Slote recalls Smith sitting in class a decade ago \u201cwith a little smile on his face\u2014teachers can tell pretty quickly who is lit from within by their interests and delights in the material. Karl was so lit. His love of stories and storytelling quickly surfaced, as did the related power of imagining the lives of others.\u201d<\/p>\n Slote was Smith\u2019s advisor when Smith worked summers in the New Mexico camp as a storyteller. \u201cHe sent me long and wonderfully written reflections about the experience,\u201d Slote recalls. \u201cThat\u2019s when his love and performative energies for storytelling were confirmed for me. And that lit-from-within interest in the world and all the world\u2019s quirks has never left him, and I suspect never will. Kids know it when they see it. Which is why storytelling and good teaching are very close cousins.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not surprising that Smith has focused his storytelling on science, says Allegheny Professor of Physics Doros Petasis.<\/p>\n \u201cKarl\u2019s physics\/English double major gave him a breadth of knowledge and experience that he now uses to communicate science to children and inspire them to become future scientists. As a double major, he only did a one-semester senior project in my lab but accomplished more than most students do in a whole year,\u201d Petasis says. \u201cAs part of his project, he designed, constructed and tested water-cooled Helmholtz modulation coils for a unique electron spin resonance spectrometer based in a research collaborator\u2019s lab at Carnegie Mellon University. These Helmholtz coils allow us to increase the strength of weak signals we get from metalloprotein samples and are still in use today, many years after Karl constructed them.\u201d<\/p>\n So Smith is on a mission to become the next nationally famous \u201cscience guy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe best part about storytelling is when everything sings,\u201d says Smith. \u201cThe crowd is with you, you\u2019ve won them over. They can\u2019t wait to see what you\u2019re going to do next. If you do your job right, you can give them a sense that stories are capable of doing more and being more than they would ever have imagined. Anyone can make a crowd laugh, or make them feel fear or anger. But with the right story told the right way, you can make them feel wonder, and that is a special thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith says he has had his embarrassing moments on stage, such as dropping and breaking his WiFi-enabled and sensor-studded juggling balls on occasion.<\/p>\n His best moment so far involved a new story he had never told before an audience and it included the audience chanting \u201cDinosaur, Dinosaur\u201d over and over, says Smith. \u201cI started the story, and the crowd was so into it that they almost threw me off. They chanted so loud they filled the whole gymnasium with sound and it was perfect. Then at the end when the dinosaur eats all the children in the story the audience all shrieked and screamed, and I knew at that moment that I had made the right decision to leave a lucrative and successful career at Amazon to go and tell stories to children.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karl Smith has a doctorate in biophysics from the University of Rochester. He also worked at Amazon as a software engineer trying to make the Alexa voice assistant smarter. But now Smith is putting his talents to better use, he says, as a children\u2019s science storyteller. He describes his new calling as \u201cMister Rogers meets […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “Meet Doctor Sparks, an Allegheny Graduate Who Uses Stories to Teach Science to Kids”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4685,"date":"2019-05-29T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2019\/05\/29\/allegheny-alumna-from-pittsburgh-area-receives-fulbright-award\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:24:00","slug":"allegheny-alumna-from-pittsburgh-area-receives-fulbright-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2019\/05\/29\/allegheny-alumna-from-pittsburgh-area-receives-fulbright-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny Alumna From Pittsburgh Area Receives Fulbright Award"},"content":{"rendered":" Allegheny College\u2019s faculty helped Lauren Ottaviani \u201918 nurture her knack for learning languages, for Shakespearean studies and for singing. Now they are celebrating Ottaviani\u2019s Fulbright award to teach English in Belgium starting in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cLauren will make an ideal Fulbright Scholar. Prodigiously bright, mature and responsible, she graduated summa cum laude from Allegheny in only three years, earning the English Department prize for best senior project and chairing the student Honor Committee at a time it undertook a review of its policies and practices,\u201d says Jim Bulman, Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Professor of English at Allegheny.<\/p>\n Ottaviani will be placed at the University of Antwerp, where she will teach and assist with English literature courses. \u201cIn addition to designing lessons for students, I will also be taking a course on Flemish to better understand the local language and culture,\u201d says Ottaviani, who is from Zelienople, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n She is currently in Great Britain attending Durham University, where she is pursuing a master\u2019s degree in English literature. \u201cI will be completing a dissertation on the formation of collective memory and its impact on female identity in Shakespeare\u2019s first tetralogy and will be presenting my research at a medieval memory conference at the University of Basel this summer. I will move to Antwerp upon completing my degree in the fall,\u201d says Ottaviani.<\/p>\n While at Allegheny, Ottaviani was involved with the choral program and was a member of the College Choir and Chamber Choir. She also participated in Opera Scenes and took voice lessons with Carol Niblock. She was on the Honor Committee and served as co-chair.<\/p>\n \u201cIn comparing my experiences as an undergraduate to those of my course-mates at Durham, I realized how much I benefited from the extended attention which Allegheny professors give to their students,\u201d says Ottaviani, who was an English major and French studies minor at Allegheny. \u201cThe Allegheny English Department provided me with invaluable skills for my continued study of literature \u2014 both in my courses and during their office hours, my professors pushed me to deepen my analyses and sharpen my writing skills.\u201d<\/p>\n Ottaviani says she enjoys being overseas. \u201cA highlight of my Allegheny experience was my participation in choir, which helped me so much to grow both as a singer and as a person. My first trip abroad was with the Chamber Choir on our tour to New Zealand in 2017 \u2014 it\u2019s fair to say that my interest in traveling internationally began with the Chamber Choir and the remarkable cultural insights we had together on tour,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cShe clearly ranks among the top 10 students of the more than 4,000 I have taught during my 40 years,\u201d says Professor Bulman.<\/p>\n Ottaviani is one of about 2,100 U.S. citizens who will study, conduct research and teach abroad for the 2019\u20132020 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as their record of service and leadership potential in their respective fields.<\/p>\n The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government\u2019s flagship international educational exchange program and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allegheny College\u2019s faculty helped Lauren Ottaviani \u201918 nurture her knack for learning languages, for Shakespearean studies and for singing. Now they are celebrating Ottaviani\u2019s Fulbright award to teach English in Belgium starting in the spring of 2020. \u201cLauren will make an ideal Fulbright Scholar. Prodigiously bright, mature and responsible, she graduated summa cum laude from […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “Allegheny Alumna From Pittsburgh Area Receives Fulbright Award”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4683,"date":"2019-03-19T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:47:00","slug":"a-gators-view-from-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2019\/03\/19\/a-gators-view-from-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gator\u2019s View From Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":" Editor\u2019s Note: Allegheny College junior Joseph Merante is spending the spring 2019 semester at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. He shared his thoughts on life there so far:<\/em><\/p>\n The first thing that hits you when you step out of the airplane on the eastern edge of the Australian continent is the heat. My experience might have been intensified, since my first step onto the tarmac was in daylight. I had one more plane to board once I got to Australia, and I had to wade through a thick curtain of heat hovering above the asphalt to get there. I\u2019ve been to California, places like Palm Springs, and the weather there is hot and balmy. The airport in Brisbane is hot full stop. <\/p>\n The good thing about all this heat, though, is that Australians don\u2019t mess around when it comes to air conditioning. Each room has its own Aircon unit that lowers 10 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 minutes. And, of course, you get used to it. At this point, when it\u2019s 70 degrees in my room, I\u2019m shivering in my pajamas.<\/p>\n What\u2019s bad about all this heat are tropical flowers and fruit plants. What comes from them, I mean. Sunlight is everywhere, which means foliage is everywhere. And if foliage and fruit are everywhere, that means flies are everywhere. And if flies are everywhere, that means things that eat flies are everywhere. The food chain here is quite bottom heavy. Unlike in the United States, where you have mountain lions and moose and bears, the biggest terrestrial predator is an emu, if that even counts. Dingoes, I guess, are next. There are tons of lizards, frogs, snakes, birds and bats. They are having a pest problem with the frogs; drivers will swerve out of their way to try to run them over. It\u2019s the same with bats, they try to expel colonies only to move them to the next town over.<\/p>\n What\u2019s good about all this heat are the beaches. The water is warm, the sand is soft, the seagulls are disrespectful \u2014 everything you\u2019re looking for from a beach experience. The coast nearest to Townsville, called the Strand, has the unique situation of being penned in by an island and the Great Barrier Reef. Although that\u2019s not good for surfing, the lack of angry waves means it\u2019s perfect for nice and relaxing dips into the ocean. Right now it\u2019s jellyfish season, so we are warned against choosing your own locations to swim, but there are plenty of netted areas that are dragged in the morning that are open to the public. There is also a place known as the rock pool, which is a large stone basin that filters in seawater each week that you can swim within, if the nets aren\u2019t enough. Each of the beaches has a stand where a container of vinegar is placed. Should you get stung, you are told to run to the vinegar and pour it on the wound.<\/p>\n In terms of culture shock, it\u2019s much less of an adjustment than I was expecting. If someone\u2019s popular, you can talk about how they went on \u201cOprah.\u201d I\u2019m studying the effect of trauma in one of my classes, we immediately went to clips of 9\/11. The \u201cWhat the Fox Says\u201d video went viral here. People love Minecraft. People love the \u201cWalking Dead,\u201d and the \u201cWalking Dead\u201d video game. A lot of the music is familiar. <\/p>\n The water in restaurants is different, however. You don\u2019t get the server hovering at your elbow filling up your glass whenever it\u2019s empty (which is not good for me since I\u2019m still sweating profusely). They do indeed say \u201cG\u2019day\u201d and \u201cmate.\u201d They say \u201cuni\u201d and not college. They don\u2019t have ketchup, they have tomato sauce, and they like beets (yay!) on a much greater variety of things.<\/p>\n While in Australia, I am taking two English classes, one about narrative theory, the other about different forms of biography. I am also taking a political science class that focuses on developing nations, charting the different methods and timelines for countries. My final class is called \u201cIndigenous Australians,\u201d which studies different native groups, including the Torres-Strait peoples.<\/p>\n My time at Allegheny has done a great job of teaching me to be self-sufficient, sensitive to other people\u2019s values, and considerate of those who have different academic backgrounds, all of which has had a major impact on my experience here. I\u2019m looking forward to coming home this summer, but in the meantime, I\u2019m going to spend as much time at the beach as physically possible.<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editor\u2019s Note: Allegheny College junior Joseph Merante is spending the spring 2019 semester at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. He shared his thoughts on life there so far: The first thing that hits you when you step out of the airplane on the eastern edge of the Australian continent is the heat. My experience […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “A Gator\u2019s View From Down Under”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4444,"date":"2018-06-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2018-06-06T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T22:00:00","slug":"recent-allegheny-college-graduate-awarded-fulbright-to-study-medieval-literature-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2018\/06\/06\/recent-allegheny-college-graduate-awarded-fulbright-to-study-medieval-literature-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Allegheny College Graduate Awarded Fulbright to Study Medieval Literature in England"},"content":{"rendered":" If you think of the Middle Ages as little more than dirt, blood and Bubonic Plague, recent Allegheny College graduate Madeline Hernstrom-Hill can enlighten you.<\/p>\n \u201cSure, all that is there, but there is also so much more \u2014 complicated medical manuals, treatises about forms of government, astrological thought, trade across incredible distances, I could go on,\u201d says Hernstrom-Hill, Allegheny Class of 2018.<\/p>\n And go on she will \u2014 to England, through a year-long Fulbright award to pursue a master\u2019s degree in medieval history at the University of Leeds beginning this fall.<\/p>\n When she was 12, Hernstrom-Hill (at the prompting of her mother) read The Crystal Cave<\/em> by Mary Stewart. That work sparked her interest in the Arthurian Legends and medieval times.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s such a vibrant time, from the gold inlay on illuminated manuscripts to the types of stories they told each other about knights and monsters and ladies, many of whom don\u2019t match up at all to our modern notion of the medieval damsel,\u201d Hernstrom-Hill says.<\/p>\n After arriving at Allegheny from her home in Boston, Hernstrom-Hill began to take courses in medieval history and literature with Jennifer Hellwarth, professor of English, and Stephen Lyons, retired professor of history.<\/p>\n Hernstrom-Hill credits Allegheny with teaching her how to conduct independent research and to ask the right questions about it. Even more, Hernstrom-Hill says she has learned to listen to the responses she gets \u2014 \u201cto conduct a dialogue, whether between yourself and your subject material, or with another scholar, or with really anyone who has a different perspective than your own. I think that\u2019s a hugely important skill for trying to get the most out of an international experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Hernstrom-Hill will bring impressive academic credentials to her Fulbright experience. At Allegheny, she not only majored in both history and English but also completed two minors: classical studies and medieval and renaissance studies. Her senior comprehensive project explored medieval women from three different faiths during the Crusades.<\/p>\n Patrick Jackson, director of national fellowship advising in the Allegheny Gateway, notes that Hernstrom-Hill took full advantage of all the resources that the College offers as she pursued her interests. For example, she received funding to conduct summer research on campus and to attend a conference in her field hosted by Western Michigan University.<\/p>\n \u201cMadeline did all of this not knowing that it would be the foundation for a successful Fulbright, but because she was interested in pursuing an idea that moved her,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cThat\u2019s the secret strength of a liberal arts education. By following our passions where they lead, we often wind up advancing not only our careers, but our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Hernstrom-Hill says she is grateful to her mentors at Allegheny, and she wants to follow in their footsteps and ultimately become a professor. Following her time in England, Hernstrom-Hill will begin the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program at Northern Michigan University, where she has already been admitted. She hopes to go on eventually to earn a Ph.D.<\/p>\n For now, though, Hernstrom-Hill is focused on making the most of her Fulbright award and studying in England.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope to meet other people who are totally in love with the Middle Ages,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s a wonderful community of medieval scholars out there, and a lot of them spend time at Leeds.\u201d<\/p>\n And there\u2019s another item she\u2019d like to check off of her list:<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, I\u2019d like to see a real castle!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Madeline Hernstrom-Hill \u201918 If you think of the Middle Ages as little more than dirt, blood and Bubonic Plague, recent Allegheny College graduate Madeline Hernstrom-Hill can enlighten you. \u201cSure, all that is there, but there is also so much more \u2014 complicated medical manuals, treatises about forms of government, astrological thought, trade across incredible distances, […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “Recent Allegheny College Graduate Awarded Fulbright to Study Medieval Literature in England”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4001,"date":"2017-12-12T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/12\/12\/single-voice-reading-series-features-writer-b-j-hollars-2\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T21:46:47","slug":"single-voice-reading-series-features-writer-b-j-hollars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/12\/12\/single-voice-reading-series-features-writer-b-j-hollars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Voice Reading Series Features Writer B.J. Hollars"},"content":{"rendered":" Writer B.J. Hollars will read from his work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center as part of Allegheny College\u2019s Single Voice Reading Series. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n B.J. Hollars was born in Monticello, Indiana in 1984. He graduated from Knox College, where he delivered an address as Class Speaker with former President Bill Clinton. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n Hollars is the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Hollars is the author of \u201cDispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction,\u201d \u201cThirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America,\u201d and “This Is Only A Test<\/i>.”<\/i>\u00a0 He is the author of several books, most recently\u00a0Flock Together: A Love Affair With Extinct Birds,<\/i>\u00a0From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>In April,\u00a0The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders\u00a0<\/i>will be published by the University of Alabama Press.<\/p>\n Hollars\u2019s essays have appeared in The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Brevity, The Collagist, North American Review, Quarterly West, and other literary journals. He is the winner of the Blei\/Derleth Nonfiction Award (2014) and the Society of Midland Authors Adult Nonfiction Award (2012).<\/p>\n The Single Voice Reading Series continues with an appearance by poet Lily Hoang on March 15. For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.<\/p>\n<\/i>Allegheny Events: Writer B.J. Hollars (Single Voice Reading Series)<\/a>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writer B.J. Hollars will read from his work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center as part of Allegheny College\u2019s Single Voice Reading Series. The event is free and open to the public. B.J. Hollars was born in Monticello, Indiana in 1984. He graduated from Knox […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “Single Voice Reading Series Features Writer B.J. 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Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4635,"date":"2017-11-21T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/11\/21\/single-voice-reading-series-welcomes-authors-james-davis-may-chelsea-rathburn-3\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:16:00","slug":"single-voice-reading-series-welcomes-authors-james-davis-may-chelsea-rathburn-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/11\/21\/single-voice-reading-series-welcomes-authors-james-davis-may-chelsea-rathburn-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Voice Reading Series Welcomes Authors James Davis May, Chelsea Rathburn"},"content":{"rendered":" Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn will read from their work as part of the College\u2019s Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. November 30 in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n May\u2019s first book, \u201cUnquiet Things,\u201d was published in 2016. Other poems have appeared in Five Points, The Missouri Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, New Republic, and The Southern Review. In 2013, he won the Collins Award from Birmingham Poetry Review, and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, Inprint, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar. May, who graduated from Allegheny in 2004, is a professor of English and creative writing at Young Harris College.<\/p>\n Chelsea Rathburn was raised in Florida before earning her master\u2019s of fine arts at the University of Arkansas. Her first full-length collection, \u201cThe Shifting Line,\u201d won the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, and in 2009 she received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The Southern Review, New England Review, The Threepenny Review and Ploughshares. She is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Young Harris College.<\/p>\n For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn will read from their work as part of the College\u2019s Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. November 30 in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public. Author James Davis May. May\u2019s first book, \u201cUnquiet Things,\u201d was […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “Single Voice Reading Series Welcomes Authors James Davis May, Chelsea Rathburn”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3985,"date":"2017-11-21T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:31:14","slug":"single-voice-reading-series-welcomes-authors-james-davis-may-chelsea-rathburn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/11\/21\/single-voice-reading-series-welcomes-authors-james-davis-may-chelsea-rathburn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Voice Reading Series Welcomes Authors James Davis May, Chelsea Rathburn"},"content":{"rendered":" Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn will read from their work as part of the College\u2019s Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. November 30 in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n Author James Davis May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n May\u2019s first book, \u201cUnquiet Things,\u201d was published in 2016. Other poems have appeared in Five Points, The Missouri Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, New Republic, and The Southern Review. In 2013, he won the Collins Award from Birmingham Poetry Review, and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, Inprint, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar. May, who graduated from Allegheny in 2004, is a professor of English and creative writing at Young Harris College.<\/p>\n Chelsea Rathburn was raised in Florida before earning her master\u2019s of fine arts at the University of Arkansas. Her first full-length collection, \u201cThe Shifting Line,\u201d won the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, and in 2009 she received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The Southern Review, New England Review, The Threepenny Review and Ploughshares. She is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Young Harris College.<\/p>\n For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Frederick F. Seely Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu<\/p>\n Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn will read from their work as part of the College\u2019s Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. November 30 in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public. Author James Davis May. May\u2019s first book, \u201cUnquiet Things,\u201d was […]<\/p>\n Continue Reading “Single Voice Reading Series Welcomes Authors James Davis May, Chelsea Rathburn”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4636,"date":"2017-11-03T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/11\/03\/macneill-miller-essay-published-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:32:00","slug":"macneill-miller-essay-published-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/english\/2017\/11\/03\/macneill-miller-essay-published-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MacNeill Miller Essay Published"},"content":{"rendered":" Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an essay, \u201cComposing Decomposition: \u2018In Memoriam\u2019 and the Ecocritical Undertaking\u201d in a special issue of\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Contexts\u00a0comprising select papers presented at this year\u2019s meeting of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies association. The essay uses \u2018In Memoriam,\u2019 Alfred Tennyson\u2019s poem about his best friend\u2019s death, to examine how representations of decay affect our ability to think ecologically.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/01\/Kate-Photo-3-232x300.jpg\")
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