Month: October 2009 Archive

Assistant Professor of English Melissa Jenkins (’01) is studying classic works of literature with her writing seminar students this fall to determine why we enjoy being scared.

The ghosts in Associate Professor of English John McNally’s book, “Ghosts of Chicago,” aren’t haunted by spirits, but instead “by deaths, by failed marriages, by lies they’ve told, by crimes committed.”

Like those creatures in horror films that rise from the dead, zombie stocks — shares of bankrupt companies that failed during the financial crisis — are still on the march.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and sociology’s Angela Hattery explains why the recession and rising unemployment are leading to an increase in “intimate partner violence.”

Professor Sarah Lischer, who recently returned from Rwanda, studies the human cost of war and the plight of refugees around the world.