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Literature at MIT, within MIT SHASS: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences @MIT. Great Ideas Change the World lit.mit.edu Cambridge, MA Joined April 2011-
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Tuesday, May 7th! Last seminar for the Ancient & Medieval Studies series presents, Susan Collins "Political Order and The Spartan Ideal: An Ancient Debate for a World in Conflict." More info here: calendar.mit.edu/event/ams-pres…
Gustave Doré’s depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance: frontispiece to a 1863 edition of the 17th-century masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, who died #onthisday in 1616. More on the imagery of Don Quixote here: buff.ly/2QPck6O #otd
Ghanaian author @kwamedawes has been named as the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2024-2027. Previous Poet Laureates include Professors Mervyn Morris, Lorna Goodison, and Olive Senior. Congratulations to Dawes! 🎉 buff.ly/3W4b6YA
Two centuries on, Greece loves Byron more than ever via @GuardianBooks theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
The absolutely brilliant "Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials Into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America" by @MatthewOlzmann:
Life, believe, is not a dream So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. —Charlotte Brontë, born #OTD in 1816 poets.org/poem/life-2
'We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and Titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees...' Henry David Thoreau, Walden Happy #EarthDay everyone!
#EarthDay was largely inspired by Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." Here is the bittersweet story behind how and why she wrote it: themarginalian.org/2017/01/27/rac…
I cannot think of a better person to reimagine SHASS's efforts to create an inspiring and equitable working environment for our faculty and staff.” news.mit.edu/2024/heather-p… @MITanthropology #MITSHASS #highered
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. —Louise Glück, former Chancellor, born #OTD in 1943 poets.org/poem/red-poppy…
When at last we knew how little Would survive us—how little we had mended Or built that was not now lost—something Large and old awoke. —Tracy K. Smith, Academy Chancellor, was born #OTD poets.org/poem/old-story
The Emperor of Gladness is Vuong’s second novel. lithub.com/a-new-ocean-vu…
Follow the amazing link before for an article by Prof Eugenie Brinkema, "Offering It Up" from In Media Res: a media commons: mediacommons.org/imr/content/of…
Follow the amazing link before for an article by Prof Eugenie Brinkema, "Offering It Up" from In Media Res: a media commons: mediacommons.org/imr/content/of…
Here's the first look at One Hundred Years Of Solitude — the new series adapted from Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece novel. In the mythical town of Macondo, the Buendía family confronts a curse, madness and impossible love.
“I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.” —Ishmael Reed buff.ly/49EgRQw
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it." An Ursula K. Le Guin classic: themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/tel…
At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We do this so that everyone, everywhere has access to a great research library. #digitization #preservation #access
Forget the Emily Dickinson you think you know. Behold, instead, a woman who baked a lot; who was very often funny; and who used a prodigious number of exclamation points in letters to her family. —@MayaCPopa on the letters of Emily Dickinson bit.ly/43XIxOj
Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
'Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.' Raymond Carver
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Charlotte Brontë | English novelist and poet born #OTD in 1816 Her novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. She is the eldest of the the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.
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