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By Winthrop Writing CenterEducation
Word Play episodes
- Inside the Minds of Winthrop's English Professors: Short Interviews with Dr. Dustin M. Hoffman and Dr. Amanda Hiner
Hello! For todays episode I interviewed Winthrop's Director of English Graduate Studies, Dr. Dustin M. Hoffman and the chair of Winthrop's English Department Dr. Amanda Hiner. Tune in and find out what their favorite novels are and their top tip for new and upcoming writers.
Again, thank you so much Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Hiner for letting me interview you!
Tune in next episode and don't forget to submit suggestions for future topics.
Be sure to follow our instagram @winthrop_wc !
-Amber
13 min - Meet your new host! More exciting episodes to come!
Hello! I am your new host Amber Nelson and this episode features some information about me! Let me know any topics you'd like for us to cover on the pod.
Look out for some fun upcoming episodes.
4 min - Frankenstein pt. 2: How to Start and Research Paper
Oh wow! It's a Finale!
Thank you to everyone who has listened in this season and who participated in the bracket! You really have made this last season so much fun for me. I hope y'all have had a good time too!
- Jordan
26 min - Mary Shelly's Frankenstein pt. 1
Thank you so much to everyone who worked on and voted in the bracket this year! I hope you enjoy the episode and join us next time for part 2!
10 min - The Origin of Mystery: Lucy Sussex's Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth Century Crime Fiction
Go vote for your favorite Author/Book on in our Instagram stories!
You can find Lucy Sussex's book here!
You can find Poe's Short Story here!
Thank you for listening!
9 min - Speculative Fiction and Imagining the Irreal
The Cafe Irreal Article
Speculative Literature Foundation
Follow us on Instagram and look out for the bracket vote on 03/01!
7 min - What's The Point of it All? Why Do We Read?
Send this episode to a friend and ask them why reading is important!
Come talk to us at the writing center and on Instagram @winthrop_wc !
Thanks for listening!!
8 min - The Writing of The Working Class
Dr. Hoffman's Reccomendations:
- George Orwell: Road to Wiggan Pier and Down and Out in Paris and London
- Raymond Carver
- Dorothy Allison
- Studs Terkel: Working
- George Saunders
- Daniel Orozco: Orientation
- Phillip Levine: What Work Is
- Donald Ray Pollock: Knockemstiff (especially)
- Bonnie Jo Campbell: American Salvage (especially)
- Charles Yu
- Lucia Berlin: A Manual for Cleaning Women
- Jenny Bhatt: Each of Us Killers
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black
Link to Ethel Carrie Holdsworth's This Slavery
Amanda Arnold, "The Forgotten History of American Working Class Literature"
Paul Lauter, "Working Class Women's Literature: An Introduction to Study"
25 min - Grief in Literature: How Others' Grief Affects Us and Our Writing
Be sure to follow us on Instagram! @winthrop_wc
5 min - War of The Writers is Back!
*Alexander Pope did not write fiction; Dr. Hiner please don't fail me!
Instagram @winthrop_wc
Keep your eyes peeled for the bracket next week!
14 min
About Word Play
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