Entries Tagged as ‘Members in the Media’

October 30, 2009

BRIGHT STAR Panel Discussion with Stuart Curran, Christopher Ricks, Timothy Corrigan and Susan Wolfson

A reprint of an announcement of interest.
Romantic Circles is very pleased to announce a new audio resource, a recording of the panel discussion about the new Jane Campion film Bright Star, which can be downloaded here:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/audio/BrightStar.mp3
or recieved as part of the (free) subscription to the RC Audio podcast by pasting the link below into the [...]

May 7, 2009

Sandra Stotsky Featured on NY Times Blog

As reported earlier in the ALSC blog, ALSC Councillor Sandra Stotsky is bringing her decades of education reform to a new ALSC-funded study on high school literature curricula. The study will gather information on English programs in US high schools, exploring whether or not current programs of study challenge students and adequately prepare them for [...]

January 26, 2009

Marilyn Hacker and Edward Hirsch Elected to AAP Board of Chancellors

From a press release of some interest.
We are thrilled to announce two new elections in the Academy of American Poets: current ALSC member Marilyn Hacker and former member Edward Hirsch were elected to the Board of Chancellors earlier this month.  Marilyn Hacker is an accomplished poet and translator of poetry and the recent recipient of [...]

January 26, 2009

ALSC Councillor Discusses Recent Book on C-SPAN2

In this 90-minute BookTV program, Mark Bauerlein, current member of the ALSC Council and former Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, debates author Neil Howe on the effects that various technologies have on the intellectual interests and abilities of The Millennial Generation.
Watch the video here.