Alumni Interviews

Alumni Interview: Yasna Haghdoost on Her Journalism Career Abroad

  Yasna Haghdoost (’17): double majored in English and Political Science. She is currently a reporter for Bloomberg News, based in Tbilisi, Georgia, covering Iran and Lebanon for a professional business audience. In February’s interview, Yasna talks about her experience working in a foreign country and how her undergraduate studies facilitated her career.       When did you graduate from Rice? What has post-graduation life been like for you?…

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Events, Graduate Program

The End of English Conference

The graduate students of the Rice University English Department will be hosting their virtual conference, “The End of English,” which focuses on the current climate of the Humanities, and imagines the possible futures of the Humanities and Literary Studies. There will be both creative pieces and traditional paper presentations on an exciting array of topics, and all members of the Rice community and the public are welcomed to attend and…

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Outside Reading

Outside Reading: Re-Reads (ft. Rice’s English Undergraduate Association)

This month, we to bring you not just any book recommendations, but book recommendations from Rice’s beloved English Undergraduate Association (EUA). Continue scrolling to read about books the EUA officers and sponsor can’t help but keep re-reading! 1. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James “My favorite book to re-read is The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Written in 1898, the horror novella focuses on an unnamed, twenty-year-old governess…

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A Day in the Life of a Rice English Major

A Day In The Life of An English Major – January

“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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Features, Graduate Program

ENST 316: Environmental Film (Spring 2022), Instructed by Bren Ram

        Bren Ram is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Diluvial Houston Predoctoral Fellow at Rice University, where she studies the intersection of risk and ecology.   Course Description: This course is organized around three central questions: what is environmental film, why study film through the lens of the environment, and how is ecological thinking impacted by the medial constraints of film? Together, we…

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ENGL 371: Survey of Chicanx Literature and Culture (Spring 2022), Instructed by Sophia Martinez-Abbud

    Sophia Martinez-Abbud is a fourth-year PhD student in the English department. Her research excavates an underlying punk poetics in Chicanx literature published in the post-1960s.         Course Description: This semester (Spring 2022), her Survey of Chicanx Literature and Culture class aims to provide students with the skills to appreciate, contextualize, and enjoy learning about Chicanx literature and culture. Because the course is cross-listed with SPPO…

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ENGL 211: Romanticism to the 20th Century (Spring 2022), Instructed by Nina Cook

    Nina Cook is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at Rice University. She studies innovations in representation in visual art and literature from 1760-1880 and asks how techniques of representation in painting and novel writing mirror one another. Her fields of study are Romanticism, the Victorian novel, visual culture, gender studies, and the history of optics.     Course Description: Our modern era is a product of…

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Events, News

English Courses with Openings for Spring 2022

Every semester, Rice offers a plethora of English courses spanning a diverse range of topics that attract students from every school of thought. This semester, Spring 2022, the course offerings bring forth a wide array of areas of interest, including focuses on subject matters such as translation, Milton, sports and more. The following courses have spots available and are open to all levels, majors and non-majors; this is an excellent…

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