The Words: December 2024

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Fall Capstone Presentations

by Callisto Martinez ’26 and Lucy Flack ’27

This semester, those who filled the DeWitt Wallace Library’s Harmon Room to hear the English department’s literature and creative writing capstone presentations on December 3rd and 4th were treated to delicious chocolate cake, hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles, and, most anticipated of all, a plethora of fascinating capstone presentations. Presentation topics ranged from sex with eldritch beings, small town crime families, and desolate islands with mysterious diseases on the creative writing side, to reinventions of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), grief and continuing bonds with lost loved ones on the literature side. Read more about all the projects here. 

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Seasonal Read Recommendations

by Birdie Keller ’25

Our parting gift for this mini issue is a list of seasonal read recommendations. Our hope is that these recommendations provide inspiration to tuck yourself in with a blanket and hot chocolate this holiday season and have some well-deserved restful reading time! See the great book recs from faculty and student workers here.

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