Monseigneur Kevin Wallin, Pastor at the Cathedral of St Augustine in Bridgeport, CT, discusses The DaVinci Code’s blending of fact with fiction in relation to the Catholic Church.

This Capstone course intends to investigate the culture of the last two decades through two interrelated perspectives: Primarily, as this is an English course, we will read novels, plays, short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written since you were born that depict and get their literary force from this same time period. Concurrently, with the assistance of weekly lecturers from outside the discipline of English Studies, we will discover how these texts are, in some sense, constructed and informed by all the academic disciplines youve been studying these past four years.

West Conn English professor Donald Gagnon lectures at Canterbury School’s Capstone Lecture Series. He fits Elizabeth Alexander’s inagural poem, “Praise Song for the Day” into the broader context of African-American Studies and Literarure.

This Capstone course intends to investigate the culture of the last two decades through two interrelated perspectives: Primarily, as this is an English course, we will read novels, plays, short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written since you were born that depict and get their literary force from this same time period. Concurrently, with the assistance of weekly lecturers from outside the discipline of English Studies, we will discover how these texts are, in some sense, constructed and informed by all the academic disciplines youve been studying these past four years.

Matt Moore works for the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC). His presentation is on the Applalachian Trail (AT) itself–the history, hiking, and maintaining of it. He gives the lecture in conjucntion with our class’s reading of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, which he looks at from the perspective of a seasoned hiker and AT worker and enthusiaist.

This Capstone course intends to investigate the culture of the last two decades through two interrelated perspectives: Primarily, as this is an English course, we will read novels, plays, short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written since you were born that depict and get their literary force from this same time period. Concurrently, with the assistance of weekly lecturers from outside the discipline of English Studies, we will discover how these texts are, in some sense, constructed and informed by all the academic disciplines youve been studying these past four years.

The Capstone Lecture for Friday, January 15th is a panel of people who have done service projects around the world, not unlike the work of Greg Mortenson in Three Cups of Tea. The first lecturer is Canterbury graduate Steven DeMaio (’03), who worked in both Madrid and Zambia, Africa. The second part of the panel discussion is a group who have worked in both Haiti and Lourdes, and the first of those speakers is Hope Carter, a Canterbury mother, grandmother, and former trustee. The remaining three are Canterbury faculty members Guy Simonelli, Viv Simonelli and Marc Vanasse (’73). The final section of the lecture is faculty member Amy Omana (’86), who has worked in Nicaragua.

This Capstone course intends to investigate the culture of the last two decades through two interrelated perspectives: Primarily, as this is an English course, we will read novels, plays, short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written since you were born that depict and get their literary force from this same time period. Concurrently, with the assistance of weekly lecturers from outside the discipline of English Studies, we will discover how these texts are, in some sense, constructed and informed by all the academic disciplines youve been studying these past four years.