Two English Majors Walk Into A Bar

Staying in our little mysterious moment this month, Christian tells us all about ‘Who Done It’ in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie)! Do you know how to pronounce Poirot’s name? If so, please let your friendly neighborhood English Major’s know. For more information on the imaginary cage match between Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, please follow us @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar...

Are you having a Mysterious May?? Becuase the English Majors sure are! This week Cathleen digs into the famous Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Join us while we #GetLit in some quicksand on the English moors! #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Walt Whitman definitly had a Sexy Farmer Era in his mid-thirties and the English Majors are HERE FOR IT! Join this week as Christian covers Whitman's poem "America"... and Cathleen ready a table of contents as a poem. #LetsGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @christianlutes @cathleenbrumback

In the mood for some naughty poetry? Don't worry the English Majors have you covered ;) This week Cathleen covers Limericks- where did they come from? Who is Edward Lear? Let's Get Lit! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @cathleenbrumback @christianlustes

Continuing with our theme of rEvEnGe this month- Christian takes us on the epic journey of Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)! It's time to bust open a bottle of wine and really dig into why Dumas wants to tell us so much about those damn curtains!! #LetsGetLit @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

Get ready for some REVENGE! This week Cathleen cover's Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ! We're taking our favorite little trip back to Elizabethan England for another bloody play. Let's Get Lit! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Are you struggling to remember the word/name of something? Then you might be entitled to compensation- In the form of Christian telling us all about Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors !! Join us while we struggle to pronounce EphesuslSrjgnoiergsejgeiozpfnaknv :) @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

The English Majors are BACK AT SEA! Cathleen covers The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) while Christian fights the good fight with her own water issues! Do you know if The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is set in the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean? Does it matter? Do you care? Tell us all about it @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar on IG!! @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

What does The Winter's Tale and Harry Potter have in common? Nothing, but a name. But 'what's in a name' right! Look, Christian brought it all home this month telling us about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)- we love a good death match for a bunch of teenagers right!? lol Let's get LIT!!! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

We might be exiting 2023 pursued by a bear... but the English majors are not mad about it! In this espisode Cathleen takes a shot of Malort to ring in the New Year and covers The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare). Get ready to GET LIT in 2024!!! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @cathleenbrumback @christianlutes

Christian turns 35 AGAIN and ALWAYS this year! This episode is dedicated to all the folks out there with the all too often forgotten December birthdays. We hope you are ready to get LIT with The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) and Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice). #GetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @christianlutes @cathleenbrumback

It's almost the holidays! The English Majors are celebrating with some fabulous FRABJOUS female chararcters!! Cathleen covers Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) and Christian tells us all about Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery). @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar @cathleenbrumback @christianlutes

Happy Almost Halloween!!! Your two favorite English majors had to have a quick little commune with Satan this month and scare our TailyPo's off with Paradise Lost (Milton) and The Tailypo: A Ghost Story (Joanna C. Galdone). Shout out to Moobs and Chirag for their cameos at the top of the episode... We would have passed their voices off as ghosts... But even ghosts don't have the motivation...

Yep! It's the Stephen King episode no one asked for, but we brought you anyway- Out if the goodness of our hearts...lol This month Cathleen and Christian celebrate the start of SpOoOoky Season with The Shining and Pet Sematary by Stephen King! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

That's right everyone! The English Majors are having a #PlainGirlSummer reading about one of Literature's most toxic relationships- Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester!!! You know the drill- Charlotte Brontë wrote it, we read the Wikipedia page, and you come for the ride! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

Someone told the English Majors to go to Hell this month and we took them up on the offer ;) Cathleen is burning in the hell of her apartment while she covers Dante's Inferno and Christian takes us to the 1905 Chicago version of hell with The Jungle (Sinclair). We'll see you in Hell! Let's get Lit!!! @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar @cathleenbrumback @christianlutes

Happy Pride!!! This year Christian and Cathleen are celebrating with two plays Private Lives (Noel Coward) and Fat Ham (James Ijames)!! Check out the resources referenced in the episode below: https://www.centeronhalsted.org/ https://callen-lorde.org/ @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar @cathleenbrumback @christianlutes

Were you as excited about fairy tales as a kid as Cathleen and Christian were? In this episode, Cathleen explores a dark (surprise surprise) and obscure tale from the Brothers Grimm (The Robber Bridegroom) and Christian brings up the mood with Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbalina. Jump into the fairy folk lore with us and LET'S GET LIT!!! @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar @christianlutes @cath...

Tis the time of year for some Tomfoolery! This month the English Majors try to fool each other with Literature the other has not read. Listen to how we try to BS our way through the Wikipedia pages of Trifles (Glaspell) and Holes (Sachar). Get ready to get LIT! @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar @christianlutes @cathleenbrumback

Join the English Majors, Christian and Cathleen, as they Get Lit with the Roman Mean Girls! That's right- this month we are covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and taking head of the warning of the Ides of March!!! #LetsGetLit @twoenglishmakorswalkintoabar @cathleenbrumback @christianlutes

In this month's episode Cathleen covers The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)- still not sure why it's not called 'The Quest for the Diamond Nuggets' lol. And Christian takes a deep dive into Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) to share Janie Stark's truly badass journey. Join the English majors in celebrating Black History Month with these authors of color and many more in the link...

Welcome back English Majors and everyone in a wiki-rabbit hole! In this episode Cathleen covers some ancient Viking Riddles and Christian breaks down Lewis Carroll's The Jabberwocky ! We hope you love the twisty tricks and nonsense words as much as you do! #Let'sGetLit @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback 

"Marley was dead." That's right everyone! Christian and Cathleen chat about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens this month! Christian brings all her best Muppets references and Cathleen labels the 3 ghosts as the hot one, the funny one, and the scary one.  Grab a drink and join us on the Wikipedia page! Let's get Lit!  @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar @cathleenbrumback @christianlutes

Hey Literature Nerds!!! In this episode Cathleen covers The Wife of Bath's Tale (Chaucer) and Christian covers Tuesdays with Morrie (Albom). We are gearing up for the Holiday season with talk of cranberries (Canterbury) and a guy named Mitch who really wants his old teacher to give him all the answers.  Join us on social media @twoenglishmajorswalkintoabar AND @CathleenBrumback @ChrisitanLute...

The English Majors switch up the style in this episode! Both Christian and Cathleen cover Bram Stoker's DRACULA in celebration of sPoOoOkY season! We chat about Bram Stoker's influence and finally answer all your questions about sexy vs. scary vampires.  Let us know what you think- Do you also love the 1992 film adaptation? Where do you fall on fancy castles and camping?  @TwoEnglishMajo...