We disappear
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The Department of English seeks to provide all university students with the skills of effective communication and critical thinking, as well as imparting knowledge of literature, creative writing, linguistics, speech and technical communication to students within and outside of the department.
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The Department of English and Speech was formed in 1939 from the merger of the Department of English and the Department of Public Speaking. In 1971 its name changed to the Department of English.
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1939-present
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- Department of English and Speech (1939-1971)
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- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (parent college)
- Department of English (predecessor, 1898-1939)
- Department of Public Speaking (predecessor, 1898-1939)
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We Disappear tells the story of the author's experiences growing up in a diplomat and Christian Scientist family. Each chapter corresponds to a different chapter in the author's life, as she moves from East Berlin to apartheid South Africa to Washington, D.C. to Munich to Minnesota. The opening and closing chapters of the memoir serve as bookends, and depict the author's struggle to accept her grandmother's Alzheimer's, a disease unacknowledged by her Christian Scientist family.