Aug 27th, 2008
by Reverend.
Over at the Mud Pit, Shannon Hauser has begun sharing her learning process again, and it is always a pleasure when she does. She is taking Dr. Greg Stewart’s “Faulkner and Morrison” seminar, and offers up two great resources. The first is the image in this post that partially superimposes the faces of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, beautiful! The second was discovered through a recommendation by her classmate Mary-Kathryn, and it is one of the greatest speeches ever given: William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Now available below (in wonderful mono!) on UMW Blogs. Enjoy the Mississippi twang and thanks go to Shannon for the links and some culture!
Download William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Speech
And, as an added bonus, I just found Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech freely available online, I’m gonna have to give it a listen.
Download Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech
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Tagged: audio · Nobel Prize · Speech · Toni Morrison · William Faulkner
Aug 25th, 2008
by Reverend.
Update: Professor Emerson was announced the Poet Laureate of Virginia today!
Claudia Emerson’s most recent book of poetry, Figure Studies, is being featured today on the Poetry Daily website. I don’t know about you, but this may very well be the coolest cover I have ever seen on a book of poetry, and makes for certain that there can be no question the Southern Gothic is alive and well at UMW. Congratulations Claudia!
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Tagged: Claudia Emerson · Figure Studies · Poetry
Aug 24th, 2008
by Reverend.
This Summer, after two millennia of silence, two students from professor Gosetti-Murrayjohn’s The Classical Tradition (a 100 level course) brought Vergil “back to life.” Jessica Eadie and Lauren Heft’s project, “War in the Aeneid“, incorporated a wide series of web-based tools to effectively integrate digital storytelling into their presentation. This site provides an excellent example of how narration and presentation might be creatively re-imagined with the abundance of resources currently available online combined with a powerful publishing platform like UMW Blogs.
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Tagged: Featured Blog · The Aenied · The Classical Tradition · vergil · virgil
Aug 20th, 2008
by Reverend.
UMW Blogs Redesigned
UMW Blogs is featuring itself this time, for it has put on a new theme for the new academic year. Wearing the elegant theme
PrimePress by Ravi Varma, thanks to the unfailing eye for great looking sites of
Andy “Edu”Rush. Moreover, the custom images of Mary Washington were taken and freely shared by our very own
Serena Epstein and
Jerry Slezak. And if anyone else has images roughtly 920 px wide and 150px high they want to offer up, let us know through the contact form. Well, let us know what you think, and let’s change the world this year, as someone used to say.
Posted in: UMW Blogs.
Tagged: Featured Blog
Jul 30th, 2008
by Reverend.
Emily McAlpine has some absolutely gorgeous images of Florence, Italy she took in glorious black and white. Just beautiful stuff.
Posted in: UMW Blogs.
Tagged: Featured Blog
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