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About this event Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and scholar, Said forever changed how we read the world around us and left an indelible mark on subsequent generations. Hamid Dabashi, himself a leading thinker and critical public voice, offers a unique collection of reminiscences, travelogues and essays that document his own close and long-standing scholarly, personal and political ...

Save this story for later. When one finds the bottom of a barrel being energetically scraped, it is proof, at least, that whatever was once floating on the top must have been very delicious indeed. And so, having reached the very bottom of the barrel marked “Marcel Proust,” the scraping continues, even unto the splintered wood. The usual run of a famous author’s remains is more or less set: first the (disillusioning) biography, then the (surprisingly mundane, money-mad) letters, and finally the (painfully naked) diaries, in which erotic obsessions that seem curious and fresh in literary...

College of Liberal Arts 03 May, 2021 Linda Randall and her husband, Gerald Hazelbauer, have given a $1M bequest, plus annual cash support to the English department via the Marty Bucco Award for Creative Teaching & Scholarship fund. Image courtesy of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Why would an emerita professor of biochemistry, who studied zoology at CSU, commit $1 million to the English department?   Because of Marty Bucco.  Marty Bucco. Photo courtesy of the CSU Archives. Linda Randall and her husband, Gerald Hazelbauer, both professors...

Published April 22, 2021, 5:10 PM If nerditude can make you a billionaire at age 23, who cares about being uncool and unpopular? A NERKLE, A NERD, AND A SEERSUCKER TOO Dr. Seuss’ signature illustration on the cover of ‘If I Ran the Zoo,’ the book credited for the first modern English use of the word ‘nerd’ on print A lot has changed since Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire at age 23. In 2016, as he posted about his dream to make an AI robot to run his household and help with his work, a fan commented with lavish praise and said, “I keep telling my granddaughters to date the ner...

Madeleine: a woman from Magdala or high tower. Madeleine: a powerful image of nostalgia immortalized by writers such as Marcel Proust, and kept alive by the people who bake them regularly; by Hajasoa herself. Madeleine: ma-də-lən , ma-də-ˈlān  A traditional French pastry, a grandmother’s namesake, the object of literary affection; perhaps the best kept secret of the café on the corner of Strawberry Alley and First Street is its name. "Just two flavors." the soon-to-be former owner of Madeleine's Place, Hajasoa Boseca, explains of her signature creation. "Vanilla and honey, but hone...