{"id":648,"date":"2026-07-02T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/?p=648"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:43:29","slug":"saint-peters-english-department-leads-spring-break-travel-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/2026\/07\/02\/saint-peters-english-department-leads-spring-break-travel-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter&#8217;s English Department Leads Spring Break Travel Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2026\/07\/20260307_100554-186x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"248\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-651 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2026\/07\/20260307_100554-186x248.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2026\/07\/20260307_100554-294x392.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2026\/07\/20260307_100554-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2026\/07\/20260307_100554-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2026\/07\/20260307_100554.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/>For Spring Break 2026, English department professor Rachel Wifall, Ph.D., along with Writing Studies instructor Constance Wagner, M.A., led the travel class, &#8220;Literary and Historical Travels: Greece&#8221;. They studied the history of Greece and its influential mythological and literary traditions. At the same time, analyzed a selection of literature from ancient times as well as contemporary adaptations of it. They visited Athens, Olympia, Delphi, Kalambaka, Meteora, and experienced ancient theaters and holy sites, as well as a Mediterranean island tour of three beautiful islands in the Saronic Gulf: Poros, Hydra &amp; Aegina.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Spring Break 2026, English department professor Rachel Wifall, Ph.D., along with Writing Studies instructor Constance Wagner, M.A., led the travel class, &#8220;Literary and Historical Travels: Greece&#8221;. They studied the history of Greece and its influential mythological and literary traditions. At the same time, analyzed a selection of literature from ancient times as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}