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In a comedy-filled routine titled “This Filthy World,” John Waters discussed his careers in film, art, and literature, ranting about his life, pop culture, and things that make him crazy as only John Waters can. The event was sponsored by the Ruth A. Winter Lecture Series, and was the culmination of the two-month long John Waters Film Festival on campus.
The Department of English offers courses central to a liberal arts education, not only for English majors but also for other students who wish to enrich their understanding of literature and language and to develop their skills as readers and writers.
These are skills essential to leading constructive and imaginative lives. They also provide preparation for careers in law, teaching, publishing, advertising, communications, business—for any work that requires the ability to read, to write, and to think well.
All students in the English department engage in the Classics of Literature Sequence (210: Ancient and Medieval Literature; English Literature 1: 211: The Renaissance and Eighteenth Century; English Literature 2: 212: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries), as well as two courses in our American Literature Sequence. From there, paths diverge as students choose the Creative Writing Track or the Literature Track of the major.
In addition to off-campus study and internships, students take active roles in the Lake Forest College Press and the Lake Forest Literary Festival.
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His article “The Miraculous and Mucilaginous Paste Pot: Extra-illustration and Plagiary in the Burroughs Legacy” was published in The Journal of Beat Studies.Schneiderman is also part of a group art show called the “Museum of Alternative History” opening on May 11 at the RNG Gallery, Omaha area. His short story “We Want to Copy Everything Exactly as It Has Been Written” (co-written with daughters Athena and Kallista), appears in the new anthology, Daddy Cool: An Anthology of Writing by Fathers For & About Kids, Ed. Ben Tanzer (Artistically Declined Press).
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Amanda Muledy ’13 will become the first student from Lake Forest College to be published in the Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research for a paper she wrote that analyzes a passage from John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. -
Students of Davis Schneiderman, associate professor of English, recently collaborated to produce a short video that will be used to help publicize a bimonthly avant-garde art event in Tokyo.
