She has been accepted to Hillsdale (average ACT acceptance: 29), and is also looking at Grove City.
One man from Kentucky wrote in to say that the portrait's relocation was "just one more reason why my daughter, who scored perfect on the English portion of her ACT, will not be going to U Penn. (For those unfamiliar with the work of Lorde, who also taught at Tougaloo College and at Hunter College of the City University of New York, here is a summary from the Academy of American Poets.) (Penn didn't say or do any of those things, in fact, although there are students and professors with a range of views on both writers.) Students have said the action reflects their interest in reading a more diverse range of voices than has been the case in the past, and sending a message that study of literature isn't just about the traditionally revered authors.Īs word spread Tuesday about the portrait replacement, many started writing to Penn (especially in the comments on The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper that first reported the move) to say they were offended by what had happened and to say they hadn't heard of Lorde, which set off its own debate.
Word spread on social media, with Penn receiving criticism for insulting Shakespeare or not teaching Shakespeare or declaring Lorde's work to be as significant as that of Shakespeare. The move followed a discussion of the election, so some view the action as a comment on the results, but many disagree. In place of the Bard, the students put up a photograph of Audre Lorde, the black feminist poet who died in 1992. The students moved the portrait to the English department chair's office and left it there.
It's just his portrait that may be less central.īut moving a portrait of Shakespeare can set off a debate.Īnd that's what happened when some students removed a large Shakespeare portrait from a staircase that students and faculty members in the English department walk by every day. Officials at the University of Pennsylvania want you to know that Shakespeare is "alive and well" at their institution.
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