Outside Reading

Outside Reading: Book Recommendations from the EUA Board

The Wild Grain welcomes you back to our publication! This month we’re starting off with favorite book recommendations from none other than our own English Undergraduate Association’s (EUA) executive board! Julia Li, Co-President: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma I recommend that everyone reads my favorite book, Bliss Montage by Ling Ma! When I read this short story collection, I found it to be incredibly unique with notes of magical surrealism flowing through…

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Features

Feature: Broad by Hector Cervantes

I was passing the time with an old friend of mine some time ago. We were drinking coffee, sitting lazily on her bed. I don’t remember what inane things led to this topic of conversation, but we started talking about physicality and our bodies, what we liked about them and what we didn’t. This was around the time I had begun questioning my gender identity, something I was open about…

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Features

Feature: The Art of Being ‘Not Boring’: A Conversation with Paige Quiñones by Aaron Nguyen and Dalia Gulca

When we first reached out to Paige Quiñones to interview her about love poetry, her initial reaction was to say, “I don’t write about love.” Compared to more traditional love poets, Paige’s poetry definitely breaks the mold of what we normally think love poetry is. Instead of praising warmth and desire, her poems address a different side of love, exploring its deep anxieties. She draws on influences from confessional poets,…

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Features

Feature: Toni Morrison’s Desdemona: A Conversation with Peter Sellars by Maddie Turner

Peter Sellars is an American theater and opera director as well as a distinguished professor at UCLA. His tremendously popular undergraduate course, “Art as Social Action,” insists on the power of art to create structures of equality. Sellars has served as Director of the Boston Shakespeare Company and the American National Theater in Washington D.C., Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Festival, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1983…

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Alumni Interviews

Alumni Interview: Attorney Lauren Fitte Shares Her Legal Experience

Lauren Fitte (08′) majored in English with interests in creative fiction writing and hispanic studies. She works as an estate planning attorney with a niche focus on international trusts, estates, and closely-held businesses and the related tax reporting and compliance that accompany these structures. Now, she is a partner of a boutique estate planning firm in Austin, which primarily represent high net-worth families, both in and outside of Texas, as…

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A Day in the Life of a Rice English Major

A Day in the Life of an English Major – April

“A Day in the Life of an English Major” is pretty much what it says on the tin: a look at how the elusive Rice English major spends their time each day. Do they really spend six hours a day reading Mark Twain up in a tree, as the pre-med students suspect? Do they hide out in the library waxing poetic about Sylvia Plath, like the econ majors hypothesize? Find…

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Events, News

Event Announcement: English Major Study Break

eat pizza with the english department! Being an English major at Rice means that manuscripts, screenplays, novels and other writing projects have deadlines that are coming up in the next few weeks as the semester winds down to a close. To take your mind off all of that important (but heavy) work, come out to Herring Hall (Room 225) on Monday, April 25th from 11:00AM-1:00PM for some pizza. Give yourself…

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News

From Hannah’s Desk: Classes to Consider ft. Dr. Johnson

Hello, fellow English-interested! My name is Hannah Hoskins and I’m a Literature and Literary History Specialization major here within the English Department. On the side, I’m a mini-professor and teach COLL 170, “Memes and Internet History”. I want to recommend two classes from one of my favorite professors in the English department. The first class, ENGL 262, “Whodunit? & Other Mysteries”, explores the genre of crime and puzzle literature, with…

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Graduate Program

ENGL/ENST 368: Asian American Literature and the Environment (Fall 2022), Instructed by Karen Siu

  Karen Siu is a third-year PhD student in Rice’s English department. Her research puts forward how Asian diasporic literary production shifts racial coordinates, complicates the boundaries between the human and nonhuman beings, and focuses on an ecological perspective of the Asian diaspora. She has presented her work at academic organizations such as the Association for Asian American Studies and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.…

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Events

PHOTOS: Fall Semester ’22 Preview

On March 24th, the English Department’s Undergraduate Committee held a wonderful Fall Semester Preview event where they introduced upcoming courses offered by the department, and reviewed major requirements, provided advising, and answered questions. Faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students shared stories, food, and fun on the Herring Hall patio! Here are some photos from the event.    

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