I could point to a moment where many interests and questions came together in such a way that they led me toward English as a career. In the spring of 1989, I took a course entitled “Challenges to the Canon” taught by professors Suzanne Jones and Louis Tremaine.

William Lee Miller, scholar in ethics and institutions, tied Obama's recent election to presidency of Abraham Lincoln in a keynote address that marked Lincoln's birthdate and a gala night at the Jepson Leadership Forum.

A panel of alumni answers student questions about choosing a career, relocating, budgeting start-up expenses, graduate schools and much more.

On the 20th anniversary of the publication of a landmark book, two Jepson School professors organized sessions that examined the enduring lessons of Harvey Mansfield Jr.’s 

A center for discussion and education about leadership ethics, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies is the organizer for the 2009 and 2010 regional ethics competitions.

Professor of religion and literature, Terryl Givens, didn’t set out to be the United States’ preeminent Mormon scholar. As a student, he had studied comparative literature, learning Greek, German, Portuguese and Spanish and studying intellectual history, or the history of ideas.

I first came to poetry through music—Bob Dylan led to Charles Baudelaire, Neil Young to Emily Dickinson, Sam Cooke to Robert Hayden, Otis Redding to Gwendolyn Brooks. Which is really just to say that over time, I learned that the difference between poetry and music is minute.

The first time I saw Diane Ackerman, she was peddling her cruiser bicycle down Gateway Road on her way to Ryland Hall. Her jet-black pigtails seemed to rotate like airplane propellers from either side of her helmet. She was a fountain of energy and excitement.

"It was a gift as an undergraduate to learn about the craft of writing poetry from a poet of Mr. Salamun's caliber," says Caroline Keene about her class with Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun. "It was extraordinary to sit in a small classroom with him week after week, and not only learn from him, but hear his stories."

“If you want to be a writer, get rid of your TV. Get it out of your life right now.”