Anna Ta (’20) majored in English with a special interest in race and American Literature. She is currently a journalist at the Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota. In our November alumna interview, learn what Anna has to say about working in journalism and how her Rice undergraduate experience as an English major has influenced her as a writer. When did you graduate from Rice? What has post-graduation life…
In this stunning video essay, “DIASPORA,” Sanvitti Sahdev, Kelly Park, and Joyce Chen meditate upon the intimate threads that weave the complex webs of their transnational identities. Considering their relationship to diaspora, Asia, America, and “home,” they craft a profoundly nuanced portrait of the complicated ties that can at times bind, while at other times connect. This project was created in Prof. Marte-Wood’s “21st-Century Asian American Literature and Racial Formation” course.…
“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…
Photo from the RADAAR Collective’s first meeting:
On November 2nd, the English Department’s Undergraduate Committee held a successful Spring Semester Preview event where they introduced upcoming courses, clarified major requirements, and answered questions. Faculty, undergraduates, and grad students shared stories, food, and laughter on the Herring Hall patio on what turned out to be a beautiful evening! Here are some photos from the event.
The Haunting of The Bazaar By Meghna Yennu You used to tell me that the if you dug deep enough anywhere, you could always find roots if you searched hard enough. Look!, you whispered in that way you used to get when you were all excited, this is how the trees steal life. Hands deep in the dirt, the fingers traced over the bark, like one would old…
Professor Morín will do a reading and book launch of his latest book of poems, Machete, in Ray Courtyard at 5:30 p.m. on November 16th.
The Editorial Staff of The Wild Grain would like to introduce you to the Rice University English Department’s newest digital publication. Rice University prides itself on an accomplished and flourishing School of the Humanities, rich with an intellectual environment that serves students inside and outside of the classroom, both in the undergraduate population as well as within graduate student education. Long in the works but new to the screen, our website…
