Dr. Carr Publishes Article

Dr. Jamie Carr, associate professor of English, published "Colonel Peter A. Porter and the Emersons" in Western New York Heritage. Here is the abstract:

"When Peter A. Porter died in 1864, many suggested an elegy he penned for a close friend could, indeed, be applied to himself. The mention of a Harvard classmate in the elegy prompted a quest to learn more about both young men during their college years at Harvard."