Edward Tenner, author of the Freshman required reading book Our Own Devices, visited Drexel University on November 7th and 8th, 2006. For pictures from his lecture on November 7th, please click here. You can also watch a video online of Dr. Tenner's talk here. For pictures from the Master's Class he taught on November 8th, please click here. For pictures from his talk on Alfred Robida on November 8th, please click here.

The Department of English and Philosophy held their third annual retreat on Monday, September 18th, 2006 in the Paul Peck Center. Please click here for pictures!

The winning essays from the 2006 Freshman Writing Awards are now available online. Please click here to read a Microsoft Word document of all the essays.

The winners of the 2006 Writing Contest can be found here! The pictures are also now available - please click here for Tuesday, May 9th and click here for Wednesday, May 10th! Also, pictures from the Sigma Tau Delta Awards & 25th Annual Freshman Writing Contest can be found here!

Rosanne Cash & Anthony DeCurtis Performance/Reading at the World Cafe Live

On Thursday, May 11, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of English & Philosophy joined together to welcome the Painted Bride Quarterly to its new home at Drexel University with an evening of literature and lyrics with Rosanne Cash and long-time Rolling Stone editor, Anthony DeCurtis! President Papadakis (right) graced a dinner to mark the event.

The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Undergraduate Philosophy Conference was held at Drexel University this year. The theme of this year's conference was "The Impacts and Implications of Technology on Life, Ethics & Art." It was held on Saturday, February 25, 2006 from 9 am to 5 pm in Nesbitt Hall, Ruth Auditorium, Room 125. Please click here for more information.

John Timpane, author and editor of the Commentary Page and Currents editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer gave a talk on "This Writing Life," in the University Club on the 6th Floor in MacAlister Hall, at 2 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2006. Pictures from the event can be found here.

The author of film scripts and articles on science as well as books on writing and poetry, including Poetry for Dummies, John Timpane also conducted a multi-genre workshop "Collected Works Workshop" for students, following the lecture: 3:15 - 4:30.

The workshop was limited to 15 students. Short non-fiction/journalism, short fiction and poetry were all welcome. The deadline for sending manuscripts is January 30.

Timpane has received many awards including the James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 2000, and the Association of Opinion Page Editors Award for Best Series, 2004.

He became Commentary Page Editor in August 1997 after more than 20 years as a teacher of college English (specialties: Renaissance literature and composition theory) at Lafayette College, Rutgers University, the University of Southampton, Stanford University and elsewhere. He has a Ph. D. in English and Humanities from Stanford.

Throughout his undergraduate, graduate, and scholarly career, he wrote op-ed and perspective pieces for magazines and newspapers, and he had a flourishing freelance writing career that included film scripts, interactive video scripts, books (Writing Worth Reading, about composition; It Could Be Verse, about poetry; Poetry for Dummies, also about poetry; Usonia, NY: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright, about architecture), poetry, essays (on biotechnology for Science magazine), and research articles.

His poetry has appeared in Sequoia, Kelsey Review, Live Oak, 5_trope, Eight Millennial Voices, Northeast Corridor, and elsewhere. He was also a writing coach at various companies and newspapers--which is how he and the Inquirer first fell in love. He is a sometime columnist for Mental_Floss magazine, a sometime NPR commentator (for the show Been There, Done That), and the host of the audio blog "Sketchy Species" for the Drexel Web zine Dragonfire.

These events are sponsored by: the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing in the Department of English and Philosophy, the Department of Culture and Communication, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Magnificent Minds.

On Thursday, February 23rd, 2006, the Department of English and Philosophy co-sponsored a D3 (Dinner and Discussion at Drexel) event with The College of Arts and Sciences and The New Certificate Program in Humanities, Health Sciences and Society. The event was called Beneath the Surface: A Dynamic Panel on Body Worlds. Pictures from this even can be found here.