Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The standards recorded by Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio at concerts between 1983 and 2014

Acoustic versions of big pop songs: “State of Grace” and “Personal Jesus"

Walt Whitman in Thomas Hardy’s “Desperate Remedies” (1871)

The persona in Taylor Swift lyrics: Not “the Homecoming Queen”; more like another famous queen at a high school in the United States

A “moral Gaza” in Thomas Hardy’s “Desperate Remedies” (1871)

Switching from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens for our Academic Writing in English II course