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Core courses -

English 110 College Writing

Monday through Thursday  9:30AM - 12:10 PM (6/18 - 7/12) with Dr. Christina Roberts

English 120 Introduction to Literature

Monday through Friday 9:30AM - 11:40PM (6/18 - 7/12) with       Dr. Andrew Tadie

English 480 - Two Sessions

Modernism, Time Travel and Alternate History

Monday through Thursday 9:30AM - 12:10 PM (6/18 - 7/12) with Dr. Charles Tung

or

Global Time and the Experience of Anachronism

Monday through Thursday 9:30AM - 12:10 PM (7/16 - 8/11) with    Dr. Charles Tung

English Elective

English 389 Detective Fiction

Monday through Thursday 12:30PM - 3:00PM (6/18 - 7/12) with Dr. Katherine Koppelman

Contact English Department for more information (206) 296-5420

Visiting Scholar

Kevin Grange, class of 2004, has published Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press). He will speak about his experiences along Bhutan's infamous, 216-mile Snowman Trek at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Bookstore on Friday, December 9 at 8 p.m.

The Creative Writing major and mountaineer spent 24 days trekking in the Himalayas among its sacred valleys and tiny villages. He has been to Bhutan four times and has completed the Snowman Trek three times, including twice as a guide. At his presentation, he will show images taken along the way by his colleague and traveling companion, National Geographic photographer Peter McBride.

Kevin Grange is an award-winning freelance writer who has written for Backpacker Magazine, National Parks Magazine, and the Orange County Register, among others.

Visiting Scholar 

Fr. James Pribek, S. J., Ph.D. will join the The English Department faculty for spring quarter as the LeRoux Chair. He will teach a course on Modern Irish Drama. Fr. Pribek holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gonzaga University, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and University College Dublin.  A specialist in Irish Literature, his dissertation traced the influence of Cardinal John Henry Newman on James Joyce. 

His more recent research has focused on Fr. Joseph Darlington, a Jesuit converted by Newman who served alongside Hopkins and eventually became the teacher of James Joyce.  He has also examined Newman’s influence on a number of twentieth-century writers in Ireland, England, and the U.S.  

Fr. Pribek, currently teaches at Canisius College. His courses include the First Year Seminar, English 101, Honors English, Honors 111 (Western Traditions II), Contemporary Catholic Fiction, Introduction to English Studies, Irish Literature, Modern Irish Drama, Joyce’s Ulysses, Yeats and his Times, and Nineteenth-Century British Literature.