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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; English Department</title>
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		<title>English Graduates Speak About Experiences in the Field</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/12/17/english-graduates-speak-about-experiences-in-the-field/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<title>Pfister&#8217;s The Yale Indian Profiles Roe Cloud</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/30/pfister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corrina Kerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American history has almost completely edited out Henry Roe Cloud from its story, even though this full-blood Winnebago was one of the most accomplished and celebrated American Indians in the first half of the twentieth century.  Joel Pfister&#8217;s The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud corrects this omission.
Pfister, chair of the English Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poet, Fiction Writer Speak at Distinguished Writers Series</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/poet-fiction-writer-speak-at-distinguished-writers-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more information on the Distinguished Writers Series go to: http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/distinguished_writers/
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		<title>Deb Olin Unferth: New English Department Faculty Member</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/deb-olin-unferth-new-english-department-faculty-member/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corrina Kerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deb Olin Unferth has joined the Department of English as assistant professor. She specializes in fiction writing, innovative literature, the short story and the novel.
She says she was attracted to Wesleyan because of its well-known writing program.
“Wesleyan is a fantastic liberal arts school,” Unferth says. “I am very excited to be here. I am enjoying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reed Guest Author at Festival of Reading</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/reed-guest-author-at-festival-of-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/reed-guest-author-at-festival-of-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kit Reed, resident writer in the English Department, participated in the 17th Annual Festival of Reading in St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 24.  Reed was one of dozens of authors who spoke to the community about a particular book.
According to the St. Petersburg Times Festival author biography, Reed is &#8221;One of our brightest cultural commentators. &#8221; Often anthologized, her short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faculty Kick-Off Writing Programs&#8217;s Fall Readings</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/08/faculty-kick-off-writing-programss-fall-readings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To view upcoming guest speakers go to:
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/09/22/writing-programs-announces-fall-faculty-readings/
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		<title>Slotkin Publishes Book on the Civil War&#8217;s Battle of the Crater</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/09/03/slotkin-publishes-book-on-the-civil-wars-battle-of-the-crater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Slotkin, the Olin Professor of English Emeritus, is the author of the book, No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 published by Random House on July 21.
No Quarter is a dramatic recount of one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events — the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864.
At first glance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slotkin&#8217;s Abe in Lincoln Anthology</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/03/05/slotkins-abe-in-lincoln-anthology/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/03/05/slotkins-abe-in-lincoln-anthology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chapter from the novel, Abe, written by Richard Slotkin, the Olin Professor of English, emeritus, was reprinted in The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, published by the Library of America No. 192, edited by Harold Holzer. The anthology was prepared in honor of the bicentennial of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Bloom &#8217;75 Part of Distinguished Writers Series</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/02/13/amy-bloom-75-part-of-distinguished-writers-series/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/02/13/amy-bloom-75-part-of-distinguished-writers-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring 2009 Distinguished Writers Series features a short story author, New York Times Magazine writer, student poets and a Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Amy Bloom ’75, the 2009 Jacob Julien Visiting Writer, will speak at 8 p.m. Feb. 18 in Russell House. Bloom is the author of the novel Love Invents Us, the short story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Attend Prop. 8 Reading at Wellesley College</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2008/12/17/students-attend-prop-8-reading-at-wellesley-college/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2008/12/17/students-attend-prop-8-reading-at-wellesley-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of Wesleyan students, led by Demian Pritchard, visiting assistant professor of Latina/o literature and culture in the English Department, attended a reading by Cherríe Moraga at Wellesley College Nov. 20.
Moraga is an influential and prolific Chicana lesbian writer of poetry, drama and essays. She is known for mixing genre in her writing as [...]]]></description>
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