Debunking the Barista Myth: Career Possibilities for English Majors
Debunking the Barista Myth: Facts about Career Possibilities and Outcomes for English Majors Youngstown State University Blog Apply to YSU Request More Information Debunking the Barista Myth: Facts about Career Possibilities and Outcomes for English Majors As a discipline, English experienced its halcyon days in the 1970s when it commanded roughly 7.6% of college majors […]
Spotlight: What I’m Teaching: Nimona
Youngstown State University Blog Apply to YSU Request More Information Spotlight: What I’m Teaching: Nimona Recently, in my Graphic Novels class (ENGL 3715), I taught Nimona, a young adult (YA) graphic novel about a young shapeshifter who joins supervillain Ballister Blackheart as his sidekick against Sir Goldenloin and the Institute. When I teach literature classes, […]
What do collapsing bridges, Georges Seurat, and transorbital lobotomies have in common?
Youngstown State University Blog Apply to YSU Request More Information What do collapsing bridges, Georges Seurat, and transorbital lobotomies have in common? A glimpse at three themed first-year writing courses at YSU Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, November 1940. Photo at the Library of Congress. Introduction What do collapsing bridges, Georges Seurat, and transorbital lobotomies […]
What Scares You? New ‘Monsters, Mayhem, and Murder’ Literature Course
Youngstown State University Blog Apply to YSU Request More Information What Scares You? New ‘Monsters, Mayhem, and Murder’ Literature Course Monsters in the literary imagination– and in culture at large– are both born and made, and my upper-division English class explores how we make, and make meaning from, the monstrous, the villainous, and the […]
Coming Home to YSU: A new chapter for the YSU English Major
Youngstown State University Blog Apply to YSU Request More Information Coming home to YSU: a new chapter for the YSU english department When I first arrived on the campus of Youngstown State University as an undergraduate English major in the mid-1990s, I could not have imagined that this place would one day become not only […]