Chair’s note: The following is a guest post by Brian Gebhart, one of our majors. I think he makes a strong case for taking English Studies seriously. It is my hope that you, dear reader, will agree. When I applied to college, I had to write a number of essays. It comes with the territory,
Posts Categorized: Musings
Summer Reading 2015 – A Whale of a List!
For the last couple of years, Who Are These People Anyway? has been happy to share summer reading plans with you: what we’re reading, what we think you should read, and how we did with last year’s resolutions. Here’s the 2015 installment; just peruse the WATPA? archive if you want to read the older ones.
The Return of Summer Reading – a Who Are These People, Anyway? Exclusive
Last year around this time Who Are These People, Anyway? focused on summer reading: ours and (we hoped) yours. The results are here. Deciding that nothing succeeds like success, this year we’re doing the same. Read on for English faculty choices – what we want to read this year and what we want you to
“…utterly a source”: Seamus Heaney, 1939 – 2013
So there we were, a couple of farm kids (him for real, me simply surrounded by farmlands and a one-time professional hay baler) having a giggle over being the only two males in the Harvard Faculty Club at lunchtime not in blue blazers, watching the parade of what appeared to be an endless line of
Who Are These People, Anyway?® curls up with a good book . . . and thinks that you should too.
2012-13 got too busy for us all to find the time to check in with you. But here we are, a few days before “summer” comes to UM-Flint! For this go-round, we asked ourselves what we were most determined to read this summer, and then each suggested a must-read title for you. Below you’ll find
Why Majoring in English Isn’t a Waste of Time
Many thanks to Eva Sandoval, writing in Matador: The question people usually ask the English major after “What are you going to do with that?” is generally “Does it pay?” It’s an appallingly rude question. My suspicion has long been that the question arises out of the asker’s need to comfort themselves that selling out
Kickin’ It with Who Are These People, Anyway?
In these posts you’ve learned that English Department faculty listen to music, see movies, and even watch tv. Beyond those things, though, how do we like to spend our time? We thought you’d never ask! Just read below to find out the unbelievable truth. All things must pass, and with this post WATPA? says farewell
Who Are These People, Anyway? visits the “vast wasteland”!
Remember us? We’re English Department faculty, and we can’t resist telling you more about ourselves, especially in mildly embarrassing ways. This time around, respondents were asked to identify their favorite tv programming of yesteryear, along with what kind of trash they might be caught watching during an idle moment now. Do English teachers watch tv
Who Are These People, Anyway? Goes to the Movies!
Welcome back! We were offline for a little while trying to remember our 5 all-time favorite movies (All-time) and 5 that we’ve liked pretty well from the last decade (2001). Get busy catching up, and don’t miss the next madcap edition of WATPA? Suzanne Knight: All-time: The Godfather, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, A Few Good
Who Are These People, Anyway?
As strange as it is to consider, English teachers do more than just grade papers, read books, and grade papers. It turns out that we listen to music too. There’s still more, so this is only the first in a series of occasional posts that will tell you a little about just who we think