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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Features

Feature: “Held, Still” By Lily Weeks

“held, still” is a multimedia project created in conversation with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. It was made for ENGL 381, “A Century of Black Women Writers,” and is composed of a video, statement, and essay.   “held, still” Statement  In creating this piece, I felt it was crucial to complete the audio portion before anything else. I decided against using large gaps of silence; I wanted to portray quiet…

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Events

Transnational Asia Speaker Series: Neferti X. M. Tadiar

Each year, Rice University’s Chao Center for Asian Studies hosts the Transnational Asia Speaker Series, which, with the support of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation, allows scholars of high regard to give guest lectures to the greater Houston area on topics pertinent to Asia and Asian life. Neferti X. M. Tadiar was one such speaker who gave her lecture on March 8th in Herring Hall. Professor Alden…

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Events

Lunch with Poet francine j. harris

Before spring break, the English Department in association with the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts hosted a luncheon with distinguished poet francine j. harris on Rice’s campus. francine j. harris is a published author and has written Here Is the Sweet Hand (2020), play dead (2016), and allegiance (2012). her work has been featured in several journals, she is the recipient of numerous writing awards, and is currently an associate professor of…

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