Oxford Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage, gives reading on campus

By Robert Lees on October 20, 2015 One of England’s leading poets and current professor of poetry at Oxford Simon Armitage gave a reading followed by a book signing last Wednesday at INTS 1113. He read about 10 poems that spanned his career, from his early work in “Seeing Stars” to his translation of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” The crowd was decent sized, with about 40 people which included students as well as professors, many of whom were familiar with Armitage’s wide body [...]

2017-05-18T17:30:42-07:00October 20, 2015|Categories: News|

Huntington Library and UC Riverside

By Larry Gordon, LA Times In an effort to promote scholarship in the humanities, the Huntington Library will subsidize the hiring of two professors at UC Riverside and host them as researchers for two years. Plans being announced Wednesday describe the program as a way to help support the study of humanities at a time when some departments are facing cutbacks as more attention is paid to science and technology on college campuses. READ FULL ARTICLE

2017-02-06T11:51:13-08:00October 15, 2015|Categories: News|
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