This summer, students from Trinity Western’s “Literature and Culture” class perused the globe’s richest literary fare.
Writing professor Melinda Dewsbury looks forward to leading her students in the study of multi-cultural, multi-lingual literature every summer.
Under her teaching, students studied poetry and short fiction by writers including Chinua Achebe, Lu Xun, Saut Situmorang, Roque Dalton, Shin Kyong Nim, Daya Pawar, Amanda Gorman, Pablo Neruda, Li Qingzhao, Kohtaro Takamura, Sumitra Nandan Pant, Azita Ghahreman, L.M. Montgomery, Matsuo Basho, Mina Said Alayyan, Gabriela Mistral, Saadi Youssef, Nissim Ezekial, Susan Kiguli, Carrie Young, Emmanuel Ejen, and Alootook Ipelli – as well as biblical works of poetry and ancient origin stories.
In addition to reading the world’s poets, students composed poetry of their own. In a practice of ekphrastic writing, students captured images of street and local art in their home cities, and penned their inspired reflections on human relationships, connections to the natural world, identity, and spiritual formation.
Professor Dewsbury’s students themselves come from places all around the world, including Canada, U.S., China, India, South Korea, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Egypt. Together as a class, they published a celebratory collection of their work on the online journal, The Ekphrastic Review.
About Trinity Western University
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