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For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. Blackwood’s syllabus includes a tour of Lower Manhattan locations featured in the author’s novels and stories: the Wall Street law offices where Bartleby, the titular scrivener of one of Melville’s best-known stories, worked, as well as the streets that Ishmael walked in the opening chapter of Moby-Dick.

Dr. Darrin Porcher, a retired NYPD lieutenant and professor of criminal justice at Pace University, breaks down the logistics behind Trump's court appearance and travel throughout New York City.

At the English department I chair, our major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years. We are being driven to the edge of extinction anyway. I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At Pace University, where I am currently chair of the English department, the major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years, to around 150 students. Every year we teach some 1,600 students—majors and non-majors—in seminars and workshops on literature, creative writing, and linguistics, in addition to the five thousand we teach in composition. That’s, give or take, $30 million of credit hour revenue per year.

"Sometimes women were unable to feed their children with their own bodies and therefore were turning to the cow's milk," said Pace University’s Dyson Professor E. Melanie DuPuis, author of "Nature's Perfect Food."

Dyson Professor Joseph Tse-Hei Lee writes an editorial in Taipei Times about president of the Republic of China, Tsai Ing-wen embracing diplomatic activism.

To counter that, "She must avoid and denounce the class and cultural privileges (her fame) this visibility evokes in her legal defense," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.