At the Cellar Door
sit three Jamba Juice gift cards
waiting for owners.
Mango peach smoothies
and berry pecan oatmeal
are within your reach.
Just leave a comment
in the form of a haiku -
why you deserve one.
Competition ends
next Monday morning at noon…
write your haiku now!
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The Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project, better known as STAMP, is putting on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice next week. Director Morielle Stroethoff, ’12, a fellow English major, has set the show in a modern context in the Bay Area. This week, Cellar Door caught up with Morielle to ask her about her vision of the show and the directing process.
What is your favourite thing about Merchant of Venice? And your least favourite?
Let’s do my favourite first. To me, Merchant of Venice represents a perfect marriage between comedy and drama. The world of the play is a dark and troubled one, much like our own. As an audience member, it is hard to watch misunderstanding evolve into cruelty, especially when it happens between characters in whom we see so much of ourselves. But Shakespeare didn’t write Merchant of Venice purely to push his audiences into asking tough questions about their beliefs, he also wrote it to bring some laughter into this sad world. A play that probes your thoughts and makes you smile? I can’t imagine anything better than that. And Merchant does it so well! Continue reading
A must-see for any English major! The history of the English language in 10 minutes.
Hello, fellow abecedarians!
Your Peer Advisors have determined our office hours for the new quarter. Please come by and see us with any questions. If you’re concerned about declaring, picking an advisor, thesis proposals (due this quarter!) or you have questions or ideas about events, please swing by and we’ll help you out.
Our office is located in Margaret Jacks Hall, building 460, on the second floor just down the hallway adjacent to the stairs.
Caroline Chen: Tuesdays 1:15-3:15
Molly McCully Brown: Thursdays 11-1
Kyle O’Malley: Fridays 3-5
We hope to see you soon!
Happy New Year and Happy Winter Quarter, everyone!
We hope you had a great break and are excited for Winter Quarter classes. Here is the latest from the Cellar Door and a preview of exciting English events for the quarter.
On Cellar Door: We have a new Guide to Declaring, and will be having some fun contests on the blog soon!
Also, keep an eye on the Calendar page for upcoming events and deadlines.
Peer Advisor Office Hours will be starting next week. Check back for our new schedule.
Coming up this month
January 12 (Thurs): Lawrence Wright in conversation with Tobias Wolff
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. His history of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, was published to immediate and widespread acclaim.
January 17 (Tues): Helen Vendler: “Wallace Stevens as an American Poet”
Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard in the Department of English, will argue that American literary history needs to broaden its concept of what counts as American in American poetry.
January 24 (Tues):
“Historical Narratives and the Construction of National Identities”
Mario Carretero, Professor of Psychology at Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, will present the ways in which historical knowledge is understood by students from 12 to 18 years of age and by adults.
What can we do for you?
As always, this blog is for YOU, the wonderful English undergraduates. If you would like to write for the blog, would like us to write about something, or have questions about anything English-related, please feel free to email us or leave a message in the comments!
- Caroline, Kyle, and Molly
