Department of Writing
7/28/2011
Thursdays at the Handwerker series inspires student expression.
By Luka Starmer ’11
The tables and nooks at Gannett Library fill up on any given evening like New York’s hippest supper clubs, exuding a deafening roar of academic diligence between the...
4/27/2011
Dissident artists find freedom of expression in Ithaca.
By Kerry Barger ’11
In 2006, Irakli Kakabadze and his wife, Anna Dolidze, who was pregnant at the time, fled their home country of Georgia after receiving...
5/17/2010
Nothing can separate journalism and advertising.
By Anthony Di Renzo
On April 9, 2009, the Los Angeles Times upset the chattering classes by running a front-page...
5/14/2008
Emily MacDowell ’06 works to bring education to rural Nigerian children. by Liz Getman ’09
It was a frigid Saturday evening in November, yet small beads of sweat dripped from Emily MacDowell’s forehead. The young alumna was finishing preparations for an event she’d begun...
5/3/2008
Now three writers in different genres will come to campus each semester, starting with Robert Olen Butler. by Greg Ryan '08
It’s not every day a Pulitzer Prize winner compliments your writing. Aspiring writer Evan Perriello ’08 knows what it feels like, though. In a master class conducted by Robert Olen Butler at the...