Texas A&M International University English Studies

Shakespeare’s influence on English

We owe a lot to William Shakespeare — more than you may think...

In fact, you probably use a lot of the Bard's phrases without realizing it... 👇

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An interesting new approach to evaluating translations

AI, philosophy and religion: what machine learning can tell us about the Bhagavad Gita Using machine learning, we analysed meaning and feeling in different translations of an ancient Hindu holy text.

George Eliot’s Middlemarch represents perhaps one of the 19th century’s British most realistic in depth representations of a particular moment in history

How Middlemarch helps us confront reality, 150 years on | CBC Radio Virginia Woolf called George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch 'one of the few English books written for grownups.' It's a book that excavates happiness and unhappiness and is perhaps more relevant now than ever. This is part one of a two-part series.

The business of teaching must be fought most of all by teachers

Literary bad boy recipe:
Smolder.
Brood.
Snarky comment.
Withdraw dramatically.

If Literature’s “Complicated Men” Were On Tinder Name: Holden Caulfield Age: 19 Occupation: “Jobs” are for phonies who “care” about phony stuff like “bills” and “food” About Holden: Only looking f...

Not just Ukrainians either…Afghanis and Haitians and Latinx and all the rest too.

What Great Works of Literature Can Teach Us About the Plight of Refugees | Higher Ed Gamma Law schools’ law and literature movement underscores literature’s power to instill empathy and help us identify with the lives of others.

Mmm. Interesting.

Need an upper level elective this Maymester?

Dr. Nolen will be teaching PHIL 3304 M01 Contemporary Moral Problems- Late Stage Capitalism MTWRF 830-1245

The course looks at how multinational corporations and their practices lie behind many of the problems facing us today: income inequality, political corruption, climate destruction, systemic alienation, war, and so much more.

Want something to do over Maymester? Join Dr. Murphy in reading some of Hawthorne's tales (many of which are twisted)!

Databases of modernist literary journals!

Access for free!

A Digital Archive of Modernist Magazines (1890 to 1922): Browse the Literary Magazines Where Modernism Began The story of literary modernism in the English-speaking world is most often told through a small collection of Great Works of Art.

LOL
Some of your fanfic be like:

Frankenstein - https://amzn.to/3HWTaEs

Ah, what a joy awaits those of you that will have to teach grammar

(ALL ENGLISH TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS- LOOKING AT YOU!)