Work Sighted is a monthly newsletter published by the Humanities divison that fosters and supports the literary culture at and around Norwich University.
Issue: October 2006
Death and the Maiden Sparks Debate
Amanda Benson will play Paulina Salas while James Kennedy and Anthony Morales are Garardo Escobar and Dr. Roberto Miranda respectively in the November 10th and 11th Pegasus Players’ production of Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden. Read more »
Oxford Don, Marine, Turned Barre Baker: Catching Up with NU’s Rhodes Scholar
There I was, knee-deep among reporters somewhere in the Middle-East. The Colonel was yelling for his Media Plan and his coffee when the General stormed in demanding I get him to the front-line ASAP….OK, so I wasn’t really knee-deep among reporters, but there were a lot of them and “somewhere in the Middle East” was really Bahrain which is like the Vegas of the Muslim world. The Colonel really did want his media plan and his coffee, but the General wanted me to get him on “Good Morning America.” Read more »
Faculty Win Sigma Tau Delta’s Jeopardy Lit Wit Contest
Members of English national honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, invited the campus to watch eight students and four professors compete against each other in “Jeopardy Lit Wit” held last month. A crowded Dole Auditorium audience buzzed as students tried to out-perform faculty and prove what they knew about literature as well as sports, cartoon dogs, and religion. Read more »
The Teaching Chronicles: Teaching Beowulf & Chaucer Solo
Six weeks of student teaching has passed. I must follow a fairly strict schedule that outlines when I am expected to take on various responsibilities. As a result, in the last several days I started to “solo” teach one of the classes I have been working with which will last for two weeks. Read more »
What Do English Majors Do?
Demonstrating the flexibility of the degree, Norwich English majors become corporate executives, lawyers, teachers, social workers, Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Fellows, and professionals in the realms of criminal justice and government. Work Sighted regularly publishes narratives by Norwich alumni, charting the ways English has served an array of career paths. In the following article, David Casey chronicles how his English degree enabled him to climb up various ladders in the publishing and advertising world as well as gave him the versatility to found his own business. Read more »
I Love to Read But It’s Not Why I’m a English Major
Often when I tell people I am an English major they say: “I thought about being an English major when I was in college, I just love to read.” Hmm. Read more »
Author Elizabeth Hand On Campus
Noted Sci-Fi and Fantasy author Elizabeth Hand came to campus last month to meet with students in two advanced English classes. Read about their experience. Read more »
