

From the Archive (2008): Montaigne
Bill Schraufnagel RWS 601B, McLish April 11, 2008 Paper # 1 – Montaigne Defense and Invention in Montaigne In his dialogue of...
Aug 20


Tribute to George S. Fayen, Jr. (1931-2023)
Here's my tribute to the best teacher I ever had. And I've had good teachers. From my father, through Brad McAdon at the University of...
Aug 9


From the Archive (2009): Auscultation, Creation, Revision
Bill Schraufnagel English 597B, Selzer and Hawhee December 16, 2009 Final Paper – Draft 2 Proportional Differences: Kenneth Burke’s...
May 30


From the Archive (2000): Melville
Billy Schraufnagel English 277a, Schirmeister December 12, 2000 Final Paper Swallowed by a Whale At the beginning of Chapter 55 of Moby...
May 8


From the Archive (2000): The People's Theater (1935-1939)
Billy Schraufnagel Theater St. 111b Amy Rogoway, TA March 2, 2000 The People’s Theater (1935-1939) In 1935, Harry Hopkins, director of...
Apr 19


From the Archive: Yeats (2000)
Billy Schraufnagel English 125-8, Fayen April 23, 2000 Yeats Paper A Moment’s Thought Cased in Stone In the poems “A Dialogue of Self and...
Mar 18


Creative Writing Excerpts (1999)
Excerpts from Creative Writing Journal 1-27-99 I want to enjoy my last months of high school. I have been getting so over-anxious about...
Mar 9


Tribute to Harold Bloom
I first read Harold Bloom's essay "The Internalization of Quest Romance" in Nigel Alderman's seminar on William Wordsworth at Yale in...
Feb 19


Why Study the Classics?
The answer is, there's no reason. Why study Achilles and Patroclus, why study David, and Abraham, and Jesus? Why study Walt Whitman?...
Feb 6