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Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
The year 1939 had been rude to Richard Sullivan. A sweet-tempered and longsuffering professor of English and creative writing at Notre Dame, Sullivan ’30 maintained an active...
Read ArticleThings That Go Bump in the Night
I will never forget the scariest ghost story I ever heard. I attended summer camp in Nova Scotia, on a crescent-shaped promontory overlooking the Bay of Fundy. Then and now, this...
Read ArticleHunting All Cryptids
Consider the platypus. Had a live specimen of this semiaquatic mammal not been captured, studied and documented by scientists, could you imagine such a creature exists? Featuring...
Read ArticleWhy ‘Frankenstein’ Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences
Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein, is the most widely taught novel at the university level around the world. Upon the novel’s bicentennial, this talk addresses the...
watch videoOn the Opposite Shore
As a fisherman, there comes a time in your life when you will go fishing without the one who taught you how to fish. A time when you can never fish with him again. If you are...
Read ArticleWriting Thoreau: A ‘Masterpiece’ Biography
Hermit, gadfly, scientist, crank, teacher, saint—and one of America’s greatest writers: even Thoreau’s closest friends said he was too many-sided and mischievous to fit...
watch videoWords On Play: Baseball Literature before 1900
Over the course of the nineteenth century, American baseball evolved from a localized folk game of English origin to a codified sport of broad popular appeal, commonly cited as...
Read ArticleFighting Words: English and American Boxing Literature from the Joyce Sports Collection
Notre Dame’s Rare Books and Special Collections is home to perhaps the strongest institutional collection of boxing-related books and periodicals in the United States. A...
Read ArticleThe Writings of John Henry Newman by Rev. Ian Ker
Rev. Ian Ker (Faculty of Theology, Blackfriars, Oxford University) is generally regarded as the world’s authority on John Henry Newman, on whom he has published more than twenty...
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