New Library Exhibition Looks at Chaucer at Bowdoin
Students in Prof. Megan Cook’s English class, Chaucer: Epic and Romance, have curated a new exhibition in the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. Continue reading →
View ArticleFour Faculty Members Earn Promotions to Full Professor
Four members of the Bowdoin faculty have earned the rank of full professor, a distinction bestowed upon those who have held the rank of associate professor for at least six years while demonstrating...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games, Revisited
Kristen Ghodsee (John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies) and Aviva Briefel (Associate Professor of English and Film Studies) sit down to talk about the movie The Hunger Games.
View Article“One I Like”: Professor Aviva Briefel
The Bowdoin magazine Web site features exclusive and regularly updated content such as the feature “One I Like,” in which campus community members talk about something of current interest to them. In...
View ArticleBowdoin Author Examines Horror Films’ Thriving Afterlife Post-9/11
Filmgoers may cower, flinch and scream, but horror films increasingly offer “safe space” for processing real-life terrors and fears as well. Aviva Briefel’s new book, Horror after 9/11: World of Fear,...
View ArticleScary Good: Briefel Book Makes New York Magazine ‘Approval Matrix’
Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2011), the latest book by Associate Professor English Aviva Briefel has won a spot on New York magazine’s coveted Approval...
View ArticleStudent Poet Explores Many Poetic Voices
This summer, Kinkel is continuing a yearlong independent study in poetry with her advisor Anthony Walton, a writer-in-residence at Bowdoin. In addition, Kinkel has received a Bowdoin fellowship this...
View ArticleProfs Coviello and Clarke in ‘Believer’ Music Issue
The current July/August special Music Issue of "The Believer" magazine features articles by two Bowdoin English faculty members, Peter Coviello and Brock Clarke.
View Article‘What Bree Sees’: Bree Candland ’01 Blogs Racer-X
In her blog, “What Bree Sees,” Bree Candland ’01 recaps this year’s Reunion Weekend performance by perennial campus favorite, Racer-X, the 1980s cover band featuring English professor Aaron Kitch...
View ArticleSlideshow: Exhibition Showcases Unique Photography of James Boeding ’14
James Boeding ’14 recently installed a campus exhibition of 20-foot-long photographs that defy the usual constraints of time and perspective, as the culmination of an independent study under Associate...
View ArticleBowdoin Students Tracing Lasting, Local Footprints of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Bowdoin students are tracing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s footsteps through Brunswick as part of the class, Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Twenty-First Century, taught by Assistant Professor of Africana...
View ArticleTwo Bowdoin Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2012
Bowdoin faculty members Tess Chakkalakal (Africana Studies and English) and Belinda Kong (Asian Studies and English) have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1,...
View ArticleBowdoin Q&A: Chinese Writers Tackle Tiananmen From Afar
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English Belinda Kong has written the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre at Tiananmen Square. In a recent interview,...
View ArticleVideo: Bowdoin’s Chakkalakal Shares Stories of Harriet Beecher Stowe with...
Drawing on her deep expertise in the area of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her landmark novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English Tess Chakkalakal was herself in the role...
View ArticleAlumni Revisit Bowdoin and the Legacy of the Civil War
Bowdoin did its part in honoring the Civil War's sesquicentennial through a memorable Alumni College in August: 61 participants came from near and far to immerse themselves in a three-day extravaganza...
View ArticleThe Fugitive Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Susanna Ashton writes about research surrounding a fugitive slave who was harbored for one night in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick home, an event that likely influenced Stowe's decision to write...
View ArticleWelsch Gives Film Legend Her Close-Up
Associate Professor of Film Studies Tricia Welsch talks about her book "Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up" with Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Aviva Briefel (director of Bowdoin's...
View ArticleVideo: Visiting Writer Russ Rymer’s “Paris Twilight”
Acclaimed journalist and author Russ Rymer, currently a visiting writer at Bowdoin, talks about his new novel "Paris Twilight" with Professor of English Brock Clarke.
View ArticleCrystal Hall Reconstructs Galileo’s Library, Digitally
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Crystal Hall explored the challenges and opportunities of digital tools for humanities research, focusing particularly on her study of how poetry shaped Galileo's...
View ArticleChakkalakal Talks ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ on BBC
BBC Radio 4 recently came to Brunswick to visit the Harriet Beecher Stowe house and interview Tess Chakkalakal about the impact of Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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