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  • Faculty reading: Cathy Day and Matt Mullins
    February 9, 2011 by

    On Thursday, February 10th, there will be a faculty reading in AJ 225 featuring Professors Cathy Day and Matt Mullins. The reading will start at 7:30, and is a great opportunity to see what your professors/peers are writing. Cathy Day is the author of Comeback Season, a memoir following the Indianapolis Colts’ Super Bowl season, […]

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  • Student reading tonight!
    February 8, 2011 by

    Tonight, there will be a student-organized reading at Be Here Now in the Village. The reading will take place at 9:30 and will require a $1 cover for all attendees under 21. The readers, in no particular order, are: Phoebe Blake, David Jessee, Ashley Ford, Cody Davis, and Ryan Rader. Ryan Rader will also be […]

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  • Outstanding Senior Award
    February 7, 2011 by

    I am pleased to announce a new era in the long-standing “Outstanding Senior Award”  (AKA, the “Outstanding Graduating English Major Award”). Each spring, the Assistant Chair distributes a list with the names of all graduating English majors with a GPA of 3.8 or higher in the major to the English Department faculty for a vote.  […]

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  • The Appearance of Women Writers in Magazines
    February 4, 2011 by

    In a recent article at Slate, Meghan O’Rourke (a former literary editor of the current affairs and culture magazine) helps bring to light the ratios of female writers to male that appear in literary magazines. The article, entitled “Women at Work,” features information compiled by VIDA, an organization created to address the need for female […]

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  • Book Drum.com and the future of the book
    January 21, 2011 by

    For some time now, there has been a lot of discussion, a lot of worry, about the future of the book. People are trying to predict where the book is going, while watching e-readers spread through the populace like oil through water. People are wondering what place the bulky, primitive artifact of the bound book […]

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  • Guest Post: The Nurse Who Can Write
    January 14, 2011 by

    Before my employment as an English professor I had another career: RN, Registered Nurse. In nursing, writing was not only necessary; it was at the core of our very system of accountability. One key statement was hammered into students during nursing school, the same doctrine practiced every day as a working nurse: “If it wasn’t […]

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