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Piecing It All Together: Exploring the Paths of Past and Present CALS Undergraduate Interns
2018-19 Undergraduate Intern Emily Morrison assesses the interpersonal and professional skills that she and others have developed and strengthened during each of their years with CALS.
The 2019 CALS Spring Symposium: Corruption
Taking our cue from the current moment—where opponents regularly accuse each other of being corrupt, corrupted, and corruptible—and the notion that we may be living in a new Gilded Age, this year’s symposium showcased nationally prominent scholars alongside Penn State faculty as they examined ways in which American literature, culture, and society engage and are engaged in corruption.
The 2019 Community Read: Birdwatching
The 2019 Centre County Reads/CALS Community Read partnered with Creative Writing at Penn State to celebrate PSU alumna Katie Fallon, author of Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird. Our programming this year explored questions related to nature, migration, and the nonhuman, and included a roundtable discussion and a writing contest before we welcomed Fallon herself back to campus on April 4.
Creating a Community: Celebrating First Book Institute Alumni Award Winners
CALS Graduate RA Miriam Gonzales considers the importance of writing and scholarly communities to the success of early career researchers in literary studies.
So...What are You Going to do With That?
CALS intern Emily Morrison reflects on her time in English 111: “Possibilities of English,” a Penn State course that provides students with the opportunity to learn about how they can use their English degrees to satisfy their career goals, whatever those goals entail.