Friendship and imminent threat are two themes that are emerging concurrently in my reading of Willa Cathers’ My Ántonia and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Invention of Wings.
Excerpt from Book 1, Japan; Part 1, Hajimeru (Beginning) As any learner of a foreign language knows, it is sometimes...
10 Best New Colognes for Men “It goes without saying that a man’s smell is a deeply personal thing. It’s...
Discovering Voices, Discovering Selves: Queer sexuality in Japan and English language use Marlen Harrison Dissertation Proposal (working) Purpose A 1928...
Poster presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SMLA) conference in Jacksonville, FL, 2016 See the full-sized poster here: poster-for-conference-2-1...
Harrison, M. (2010). The scented word: Context, intrigue and the problem of olfactory literacy. Household and Personal Care, Supplement. January,(1), 6-10. ABSTRACT:...
"Then came my final capstone class again. Learning from past experiences, I requested Dr. Marlen Harrison as a capstone mentor, whom I felt was the best professor I ever had at SNHU. He was the one teacher that pushed me the most during my stay here at SNHU. I knew if I worked hard and could earn a good grade for him, that it was a grade well deserved."
"The panel defined artistic perfumery as a type of creative design where the perfumer is not necessarily limited by someone else's concept, brief, or vision. Art itself lies at the core of artistic perfumery and as such, the panel addressed how such art can be judged and critiqued."
Written by Michelle Colyar for Prof. David Loomis’ Journalism 120 course at IUP; published with permission of author and subject...
So, who are you? Well? Do you hear me talking to you? Won’t you say something? Why are you in my house?
Marlen has an alter-ego, “ThePerfumeCritic”! Read his take on ten, great male fragrances for 2013 in MensJournal.com. Read the article...
"Through interviews with five female and two male expatriates, we studied the ways in which Western runners brought meaning to the transition experience and negotiated meanings and bodily practices associated with running. Through narrative analysis, we identified three core narratives of migration (possibility, necessity and growing up) and two emergent narratives (community and running to feel like oneself) about shifting meaning in running."