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Walt Whitman and the People’s Press
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Walt Whitman and the People’s Press

A unique course combining literature and design leads to a mobile printing press that will be part of the poet’s 200th birthday celebration.

Louisa Shepard

‘Ladysitting’
Professor standing in front of a blackboard.

Lorene Cary, a senior lecturer in creative writing, has written a memoir about caring for her grandmother in her final year, “Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century.” (Photo: Eric Sucar) 

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    • ‘Ladysitting’

    A new memoir by Lorene Cary, “Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century,” describes the year she spent caring for her grandmother in her home.

    Louisa Shepard

    ‘What can be done today?’
    Aminata Sy sits with student reading a book to them.

    Aminata Sy with a student in the African Community Learning Program. (Photo: Omnia Magazine)

    ‘What can be done today?’

    Senior Aminata Sy founded a program for Philly kids and will soon head to Congress to begin her Rangel Graduate Fellowship.

    Susan Ahlborn

    Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan
    Jennifer Egan stands in front of classroom holding papers in hand.

    Novelist and Penn alum Jennifer Egan taught a literature course on modern fiction this semester as an artist-in-residence. 

    Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan

    Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature.

    Louisa Shepard

    A life of writing and song
    Rosanne Cash speaking at microphone at table with professor Al Filreis looking at her and smiling.

    Singer-songwriter and author Rosanne Cash (left) met with students at the Kelly Writers House as part of the Fellows program, now in its 20th year. She made two public appearances, including a discussion with Al Filreis (right), English professor and Writers House faculty director.  

    A life of writing and song

    Rosanne Cash, a Kelly Writers House Fellow, was on campus for a course taught by English Professor Al Filreis that focuses on three eminent writers each spring semester.  

    Louisa Shepard

    Four Penn faculty receive Guggenheim fellowships
    Jed Esty, Carmen Maria Machado, Adriana Petryna, and Michelle Lopez

    Four Penn faculty were named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows. Clockwise from left: Jed Esty for literary criticism, Carmen Maria Machado for fiction, Adriana Petryna for anthropology and cultural studies, and Michelle Lopez for fine arts. 

    Four Penn faculty receive Guggenheim fellowships

    Louisa Shepard

    Experiencing the literature, architecture, and film of Haifa, up close
    A group of people walking in front of a stone building in Haifa, Israel.

    A handful of people like guide Amittai Weinberger (front, walking backwards) led 18 Penn students, including junior Athena Panton, junior Emma Moore, and sophomore Justin Greenman around Haifa, showing them sights they’d read about or seen film of leading up to the trip. (Photo: Jessica Davis)

    Experiencing the literature, architecture, and film of Haifa, up close

    During a Penn Global Seminar in March, professor Nili Gold led 18 undergraduates around the coastal Israeli city, exposing them to its people and places and to her childhood home.

    Michele W. Berger

    ‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself’
    walt whitman on a horse and buggy

    ‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself’

    Two centuries after his birth, Walt Whitman’s poetry still resonates with audiences today. The Penn Libraries is leading a region-wide, yearlong celebration of Whitman at 200.

    Louisa Shepard

    The times and life of W.E.B. Du Bois at Penn
    W.E.B. Du Bois sits at his desk in his office.

    Photo courtesy: W.E.B Du Bois Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

    The times and life of W.E.B. Du Bois at Penn

    In 1896, Du Bois was appointed an assistant instructor at Penn and began his investigation of the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia—research that he would turn into his groundbreaking work, “The Philadelphia Negro.”