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Almost 10 years ago, I taught a course on Patricia Highsmith, and since then, there has been a bit of interest in this mini-documentary I created for my students and the end-of-term film festival we hosted around Highsmith adaptations. It's about 16 minutes in length, posted originally on Vimeo and now YouTube. The Associació Internacional …
This upcoming Spring, I'll be teaching our Major Authors course--organized around Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu, and the material culture of authorship. I've not taught these authors in any extended fashion before, so I'm very excited about the opportunity! Given those butterflies in the stomach, I'm making a draft available on Google Drive--any and all feedback, comments, …
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Recent years have seen a dramatic upswing in the popularity of Patricia Highsmith’s work. In this century, two biographies have been written about the prolific pulp novelist, and an array of laudatory articles have appeared in forums like Slate, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Times of …
Tomorrow I meet for the first time with my EN490: Major Authors course, which I'm so excited about! It's a larger class than I'd anticipated, but hey--the more the merrier. And, the more folks I can turn to into followers of Patricia Highsmith, the better! This is a writing intensive class, so we'll be doing …
Tonya Howe 