/channels/taxonomy/term/8907/all en /channels/channels/news/how-fictional-racist-plot-made-headlines-and-revealed-american-truth-283616 <p><em>Excerpt from Merve Emre's new book</em>, Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. <em>She is an assistant professor of English at ƻ����Ժ.</em></p> Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:42:41 +0000 webfull 133795 at /channels /channels/channels/news/what-would-rorschach-tell-you-about-you-268917 <p>“For me, what was really interesting is the way that these tests offer people a language of the self – a vocabulary or an idiom for talking about who they are and what they want, and what kinds of people they want to be.”<br /><br /><strong>Merve Emre</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, on WNPR radio. Her book on the Myers-Briggs test and the history of personality testing will be published in Spring 2018. <br /><br /> Listen to the entire interview: <a href="http://wnpr.org/post/what-would-rorschach-tell-you-about-you-0">WNPR</a><br /><br /></p> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:23 +0000 webfull 129210 at /channels /channels/news/bob-dylan-awarded-nobel-prize-literature-263424 <p>The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". (<a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.html">NobelPrize.org</a>)</p> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:09:19 +0000 webfull 122085 at /channels