Dr. Kathleen Béres Rogers published her first book this March titled Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind. The text explores obsession as a mental disease and when it came to be recognized as a disease in the Romantic Era.…
Anthony Varallo On Writing “The Lines”
Doctor Anthony Varallo published his first novel, The Lines, this August. The book, set in the summer of 1979 during a national gas shortage, follows a family facing numerous hardships through the perspective of each character. Novelist Anthony Varallo wanted…
English Department Faculty Update: A Year of Teaching and Research
As is the custom, we at Folio are closing out the 2018-2019 academic year with a highlight reel of English faculty’s accomplishments and activities. Because it’s a highlight, some things did get left out–mostly because they got better coverage elsewhere.…
27th Annual English Day Celebration- 2019
Did you happen to miss the 27th annual English day celebration? Did you want to attend, but just couldn’t get time in your hectic schedule that we all have as we approach the final week of the semester? Well, don’t…
‘Marooned’ Book Launch
We all know the story of the Pilgrims and how the Mayflower brought over a persecuted religious group of people to New England, but what else is there to know about the beginning of the New World? Well, in Dr.…
Folio Supercuts 2018
Before we log-off for the summer, we wanted to share one last post to thank our interns for their work this year and to do a little summing up of the year. It’s been a bang-up year for the English…
Department Updates: A Year of Teaching and Research
This semester, we at Folio have been brainstorming new ways of sharing department news. In the past these end-of-year posts, previously titled “Faculty Notes,” have organized news based on who contributed it. This year, we’re trying a different arrangement to…
Evgeniya Monico’s Review of Crazyhorse No. 92
As some of you may–or may not–know, when our esteemed Creative Writing faculty aren’t busy being fabulous teachers and writers, they’re hard at work editing the literary magazine Crazyhorse. For those in the know, the reputation of Crazyhorse precedes itself. Work printed in…