Literature and Writing

Drawing on images of beauty and atrocity alike, the poems of ISIS spark questions of how literature is defined.

The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics is proud to announce that Christopher Hager will be the 2015-2016 Nancy Schaenen Endowed Visiting Scholar of Ethics. Dr. Hager received his bachelor’s degree … Continue reading "Frederick Douglass Prize Winner will be the 2015-2016 Schaenen Scholar"

By Erik Kwakkel This post was originally posted at Medieval Books, and is posted here with Dr. Kwakkel’s permission.  Old furniture, broken cups, worn-out shoes and stinky mattresses: we don’t think twice … Continue reading "Destroying Medieval Books – And Why That’s Useful"

Joe Heithaus, professor of English at DePauw University, read several poems at The Campus Farm Dinner in October. Here he is reading a famous poem called  “The Peace of Wild … Continue reading "The Peace of Wild Things – Poetry Reading"

That’s right. This post has the word “ain’t” in its title. So what? In a recent interview, Harvard University Professor of Psychology and celebrated writer, Stephen Pinker, explains the “curse of … Continue reading "Literary Hazing “Ain’t” Ethical"

Season 4 of the FX television series, “American Horror Story” just premiered this past Wednesday night with their newest season titled, “Freak Show”.  Although I am a huge fan of … Continue reading "American Horror Story: Freak Show"

The introduction of technology in the classroom seems like a win-win situation, but psychologists and neuroscientists are hesitant to write handwriting off as a thing of the past. From learning … Continue reading "Making the Case for Cursive"

This article, by DePauw History professor David Gellman, originally appeared in Historians Against Slavery on August 15, 2014. If all the great abolitionists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were … Continue reading "Abolitionists Unfrozen"