| Welcome to
PLATH COUNTRY
Photo:
Marc
Featherly |
CLASS OPERATION?
Classes I'm teaching Spring 2008:
English
212: Editorial Writing & Reviewing
English 301: Magical
Realism & Other Experiments in Fiction
English 354: Native
American Literature
Current or prospective students can access basic information about
me and
other courses I teach at my E-vita. For other
departmental or university information, consult the Illinois Wesleyan University home page.
Early case of senioritis? Classes getting you down? Out of school, but thinking of returning? Try this booster. Thinking of taking a semester off-campus? I highly recommend that you consider IWU's London Program, Denmark's International Studies Program (nearly everyone in Copenhagen speaks English!).
A REMOVABLE
FEAST!
Feel free to download these quotes I've assembled:
THE ARGUS
One good indicator of campus life is the student newspaper. I've been privileged to serve as faculty advisor to The Argus since 1988. During that time, the newspaper has placed in the top three in its class all but five years.
WRITING PROJECTS
My current project is Chicago's
Eddy Street: Memoirs of an American Family, a food-related
memoir of growing up in a
multi-ethnic neighborhood in Chicago in the Fifties which will be
published by American
Foodways Press in November. Remembering Ernest Hemingway was
my last project, co-written with Frank Simons: Thirteen interviews with
family and friends of the Nobel laureate, published in May 1999 as a
centennial
tribute, with a foreword by granddaughter Lorian Hemingway. The IWU
Bookstore
has copies of Remembering Ernest Hemingway for sale; those of
you
in cyberspace can order via amazon.com or directly from the publisher
if
you click on the link below.
I'm also a DVD reviewer for DVD
Town and a contributor to HollywoodinHiDef.com,
so if you're into
cinema check out those sites. My reviews are also indexed at rottentomatoes.com
and available through the Online Film
Critics Society.
Questions or comments should be directed to: jplath@iwu.edu
