Tag: literature

Change In Class

Fresh perspectives and new scholarship enliven learning By Pamela Wilson  What does reading Beowulf reveal about race? How can the literature of the Middle Ages teach us about the modern era? Associate Professor Diane Cady and her students have been posing these questions—and others—in Survey of British Literature I, a course she recently redesigned as

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Around the world in 80 years 

From the chemistry lab to the writing desk, Lienfung Li Ho ’43 has forged successes throughout her life’s journey.  By Sarah Stevenson, MFA ’04  “My lifelong work is still what I learnt in the chemistry building at Mills, but literature has encouraged me to write in my spare time,” Lienfung Li Ho ’43 says with

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