By Scott Nowka
English Department
“So why does every letter ’s’ look like a lower-case ‘f’?”
This is the question that always precedes one of the most exciting types of discussions we have in my undergraduate or graduate classes. What does it mean? That my students have ventured out beyond the annotated, comfortably modernized, and silently emended editions [...]

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By Chris Fauske
Interim Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
It is largely unnecessary to point out that this edition of ASpect is different from anything that has gone before, and so I won’t dwell on that observation. But I will say that I hope you are enjoying the new format.
Much of the current issue deals with questions [...]

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By J. D. Scrimgeour
English Department

As a teacher of writing at Salem State College, I hear a lot of stories: The mother who lost her husband early and was trying to stay enrolled, but at last couldn’t afford it; the woman who lived in a shelter with her infant; the man who had grown up in [...]

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