Mitchell Kalpakgian

Dr. Mitchell A. Kalpakgian is a native of New England, the son of Armenian immigrants. He was Professor of English at Simpson College (Iowa) for 31 years. During his academic career, Dr. Kalpakgian received many academic honors, among them the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship (Brown University, 1981); the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship (University of Kansas, 1985); and an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Children s Literature.

Articles by Mitchell Kalpakgian

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost May 2, 2013
Shakespeare’s Hamlet March 14, 2013
Dr. Johnson’s Rasselas March 7, 2013
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women January 21, 2013
Shakespeare’s Macbeth January 15, 2013
Jane Austen’s Emma December 17, 2012
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice November 12, 2012
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream October 29, 2012
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men October 1, 2012
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin September 24, 2012
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales September 10, 2012
Melville’s Billy Budd August 30, 2012
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice August 16, 2012
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels July 23, 2012
Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days July 2, 2012
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden June 18, 2012
Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio May 19, 2012
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses May 3, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book April 19, 2012
Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows March 19, 2012
Household Stories of the Brothers Grimm February 23, 2012