Sarah Pearl Heard '18 visits the Common Room to discuss how she came to Yale without losing her North Carolina roots, what drew her to the creative writing concentration, and how her writing life has evolved now that she's an educator.
The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19.

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&lt;p&gt;The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19. &lt;/p&gt;
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Sarah Pearl Heard ‘18 drops by the Common Room to talk about how she transitioned from North Carolina to Yale without losing her roots, what drew her to the creative writing concentration, and how her writing life continues to evolve now that she‘s an educator herself.

Sarah Pearl Heard

Associate Professor Marta Figlerowicz talks about how meme culture is like Roman pantomime and what it means to be gender queer in Poland.
Figlerowicz's books include Flat Protagonists and Spaces of Feeling.
The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Associate Professor Marta Figlerowicz talks about how meme culture is like Roman pantomime and what it means to be gender queer in Poland.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Figlerowicz's books include Flat Protagonists and Spaces of Feeling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19. &lt;/p&gt;
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Associate Professor Marta Figlerowicz talks about how meme culture is like Roman pantomime and what it means to be gender queer in Poland.

Marta Figlerowicz

Rob Long '87 is a writer, television producer, and political commentator who has written for Cheers and Kevin Can Wait. He discusses how he broke into Hollywood, and how he writes as himself no matter the medium.
The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Rob Long '87 is a writer, television producer, and political commentator who has written for Cheers and Kevin Can Wait. He discusses how he broke into Hollywood, and how he writes as himself no matter the medium.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19. &lt;/p&gt;
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Rob Long ‘87 is a writer, television producer, and political commentator who has written for Cheers and Kevin Can Wait. He discusses how he broke into Hollywood, and how he writes as himself no matter the medium.

Rob Long

Professor John Durham Peters explains why the weather is wonderful, and reflects on religious faith and the power of reading.
His books include Promiscuous Knowledge and The Marvelous Clouds.
The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Professor John Durham Peters explains why the weather is wonderful, and reflects on religious faith and the power of reading.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;His books include Promiscuous Knowledge and The Marvelous Clouds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19. &lt;/p&gt;
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Professor John Durham Peters explains why the weather is wonderful, and reflects on religious faith and the power of reading.

John Durham Peters

Assistant Professor Alanna Hickey describes how 19th-century books with humanitarian aims can hide serious abuses of power, and asks what happens when institutions acknowledge that crucial knowledge production happens outside their walls?
The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Assistant Professor Alanna Hickey describes how 19th-century books with humanitarian aims can hide serious abuses of power, and asks what happens when institutions acknowledge that crucial knowledge production happens outside their walls?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19. &lt;/p&gt;
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Assistant Professor Alanna Hickey describes how 19th-century books with humanitarian aims can hide serious abuses of power, and asks what happens when institutions acknowledge that crucial knowledge production happens outside their walls?

Alanna Hickey

In this series, we drop into the Zoom rooms of faculty, staff, and students in the Yale Department of English to discuss their work, how they came to be at Yale, and what drives them.


Cover art by Sarah Harford.

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