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PPW Graduate Reflects on Her Degree as a New Director Takes the Helm of the Program
I moved into room 320 of Nordenberg Hall in August 2019. My mom, brother, and I stayed at a nearby hotel with all of my things packed up in the trunk of our car. In just a few hours, my whole life was squished into my half of a room. I had no idea what to expect attending Pitt, as I graduated high school in a class small enough to know every person by their faces and by first and last name. My floor at Nordenberg consisted of 40 or so musical-minded people who began rocking out with acoustic and double-necked electric guitars within the first few minutes of everyone meeting each other in the Music Living Learning Community (LLC). More>
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From NYC to the Burgh: Alumna Lindsay Dragan Rocks On
North Hills, Pittsburgh; a tiny Borders bookstore, any given Saturday night, circa 2004. Erin Lindsay Dragan,16, sits onstage, playing the guitar and singing to a small crowd of store patrons and coffee drinkers. At the end of the night, she walks out with fifty dollars, and she’s never felt more empowered.
November 2022, and she’s playing Pittsburgh’s Light Up Night with headliner Joan Jett, the frontwoman the Blackhearts. So, how did we get from there to here? <More>
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New Faculty Profile: Alexandra Hidalgo's Academic-Artistic Entanglements
The English department's Crow Chair position, named for the late professor Charles Crow, was founded in 2007 following a grant from Pitt alumnus Thomas H. McIntosh. McIntosh, who was, notably, not an English major, said at the time that the grant was in honor of a "memorable and valuable teacher, whose guidance to me as a freshman composition student was much appreciated then and later in my career." Since then, the position has been occupied by a successive line of distinguished English faculty members, including, most recently, Alexandra Hidalgo, who became Crow Chair this past fall. <More>
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Issue 25
Fall / Winter 2022
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