News Archives: Fall 2007

• Jonathan Wilson to head new humanities center: English professor Jonathan Wilson will become the director of Tufts’ new Center for the Humanities and the Arts when it opens this January at 48 Professors Row. The center will be a nexus for scholars and students of different disciplines, where they can learn from each other and engage in stimulating intellectual discourse.
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• John Fyler publishes new book: In his latest work, Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun, professor John Fyler analyzes how some of the most prolific medieval writers observed and debated what they saw as the declining history of an originally perfect English language.
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• Radiclani Clytus begins as assistant professor: The English Department welcomes its newest member, Radiclani Clytus, who joined the department this fall as an assistant professor of English. A specialist in African-American studies and American studies, he received his Ph. D. from Yale and is a fellow at the New York Historical Society.
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• Your Brain on Books: A recent issue of Tufts Magazine explored what English majors already know as a fundamental truth: that reading is more than a hobby.
   
  • Books of Another Time: Professor Jonathan Wilson, Associate Professor Virginia Jackson and Tufts English Ph.D. Alumnus Gregory Maguire reminisce about reading in the summers of their youth. What was entertainment then sparked Maguire, 38 years later, to write Wicked – a best-selling novel that inspired the Broadway show of the same name. Read more >
     
  • Professor Grace Talusan, undergraduate Alumnus and Lecturer in English, muses about a mismatched, full-to-the-brim scrapbook in her story "The Book of Life and Death." Its words, photos and memories hold a special place in her character’s heart. Read more >
     
  • Novelist and Lecturer Joseph Hurka discusses how the events of his own life – and history – shaped his newest work, Before. The book follows three very different, but equally troubled characters as they attempt to make peace with their pasts in the hours leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. Read more >

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