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Spring 2017 News
Faculty/Staff News:
- Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, Departmental Friends Summer Features
- English Department Faculty and Staff Members Win Awards
Student News:
- English Awards Night: Congrats to our students who won awards and scholarships
- Sigma Tau Delta Spring Induction Ceremony Took Place
- Film Students are Making a Short Film Minor Video
- Sigma Tau Delta Goes to Louisville and presents eight juried papers
- English Students Presented at the Undergraduate Research Day
- Our English Ed graduate, Paige Henninger, made it into the news
Event News:
- Grad Commencement Spring 2017
- SITREP Reading Planned for Wednesday
- April 27 – Poem in Your Pocket Day – Guess Who?
- The Film Minor Generated eleven donations totaling $225 for the Western Challenge
- On April 24th Support Our Film Minor for the Western Challenge
- Summer Film Series: Dead Filmmakers Society; Read the News Release
- Children's Author Amy Novesky Speaks as Our Writer–in–Residence
- Dinner and Conversations: Murder at the Old Bailey: An Evening of Sherlockian Detection
- English Education Hosts Writing Festival for High School Students
- Author Stephen Graham Jones to Speak at Western
- Vanwesenbeeck to Deliver Magliocco Lecture
- The English Department is Having an Open House for Students
- WIU Film Club is Screening Movie for Black History Month: Black Panther
- Sigma Tau Delta Book Drive Flyer
Other News:
- Spring 2017 Syllabi Now Available
- Literary Magazine for Veterans Continues in its Third Year
- The Film Minor Put Out Its First Newsletter
- A Year Wrapped Up: 2016–2017 Awards and Announcements
- Holiday Decorations are in Swing in the Department of English
- WIU Department of English Hosting Creative Writing Awards
- Mirror and the Lamp Looking for Student Writers
- The Western Illinois University Department of English To Host The Leland Essay Contest
Spring 2017 Publications:
Mirror and the Lamp (blog)
Mirror and the Lamp 2017 (pdf)
- 2016-2017 Awards and Announcements
- Rebecca Gonner, Managing Editor, Signing Off by: Rebecca Gonner
- A Magical Experience: Harry Potter Study Abroad by: Haley Helgesen
- Huizinga on Lateness: 10th Annual Magliocco Lecture with Dr. Birger Vanwesenbeeck by: Sheldon Gaskell
- Murder, Mystery, and English Majors: Experiencing an Evening of Sherlockian Detection by: Tess Tyler
- Interview With Barb Harroun by Brittany Douglas
- A Letter From the Chair by: Mark Mossman
- Fall of the Puddle by: Rebecca Gonner
- Proust Questionnaire - Alyson Eagan by: Kate Ivy
- Considering Literacy: An Interview with Dr. Buchanan by: Felicia Appell
- An Absurd Pastime by: Jared Worley
- Proust Questionnaire - Dr. Marjorie Allison by: Kate Ivy
- Experiencing Dada in Chicago by: Laura Winton
- Dinner and Conversation: Edgar Allan by: Emily Swain
- From Role-Player to Writer by: Max Keil
- Recreating Who I Am by: Rebecca Graham
SITREP: Veterans Perspectives on Combat and Peace
- View SITREP 2017 edition
Film Minor
Elements & Creative Writing Awards
Western Voices
- See archive of winners for the 2017 edition from papers submitted in 2016
Spring 2017 Calendar of Events in Order:
- January 27, 2017: Game Studies Group: Group Horror: Escape from the Aliens (Kozmic Game Emporium, 4–5:30pm)
- January 30, 2017: Film Club Screening: Monty Python (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- February 10, 2017: Leland Essay Contest Deadline
- February 10, 2017: Game Studies Group: Cultural Representation of Vikings (Kozmic Game Emporium, 4-5:30pm)
- February 20, 2017: Film Club Screening: Bedtime Story (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- February 23, 2017: Living Learning Community Film Screening: Annie Hall (Simpkins 220, 4–6pm)
- February 24, 2017: Game Studies Group: Literary Games – canceled
- February 27, 2017: Film Club Screening: Black Panthers (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- February 27, 2017: English Department Open House
- February 28, 2017: English Department Open House
- March 2, 2017: African American Literary Society Meeting
- March 2, 2017: Living Learning Community - Patti Smith Shows You How to Invent a Life: Or, Steal This Book if You Want to Live (Simpkins Lounge)
- March 6, 2017: Film Club Screening: Nausicaa (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- March 7, 2017: Magliocco Lecture: Birger Vanwesenbeeck "Huizinga, Theorist of Late Style?" (Morgan Hall 109, 7–9pm)
- March 10, 2017: Elements Submission Deadline
- March 10, 2017: Creative Writing Awards Deadline
- March 20, 2017: English Graduate Experience Roundtables: "Thesis Writing Process (and Other Exit Options)" (Simpkins 214, 5pm)
- March 20, 2017: Film Club Screening: The Fifth Element (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- March 24, 2017: Game Studies Group: Adaptation (Video Game and Movie Board Games) (Kozmic Game Emporium, 4–5:30pm)
- March 25, 2017: Writing Center Seminar in QC (10am–12pm)
- March 25, 2017: SITREP Submission Deadline
- March 30, 2017: Case Writer: Stephen Graham Jones (Sherman Hall Auditorium, 5:30pm)
- April 3, 2017: Film Club Screening: True Grit (1969) (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- April 3, 2017: 5th Annual High School Writing Festival
- April 5, 2017: English Graduate Experience Roundtables: “What To Do With a Master’s Degree in English” (Simpkins 214, 5pm)
- April 5, 2017: Disability Culture Day (sponsored by Department of English)
- April 7, 2017: Dinner and Conversations: Murder at the Old Bailey: An Evening of Sherlockian Detection (Old Bailey House, 5:30pm)
- April 7, 2017: Game Studies Group: Historical Games (Kozmic Game Emporium, 4–5:30pm)
- April 10, 2017: WASC/WIU and Film Club's Special Screening: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark or the movie Life in a Day (Morgan 101b, 6pm)
- April 12, 2017: CAS Talks Series: Dr. Shazia Rahman "Women and the Environment in Pakistan and Beyond" (Morgan 101a, 4pm)
- April 12, 2017: Faculty Research
- April 13, 2017: Kevin Stein Reading - Illinois Poet - (Old Bailey House, 6pm)
- April 17, 2017: OSA Awards (Film Club and Film Adviser Nominated)
- April 17, 2017: Film Club Screening: True Grit (2010) – canceled
- April 17, 2017: Black Out Poetry Workshop (Malpass 180, 12–1pm)
- April 18, 2017: Case Writer: Amy Novetsky (Old Bailey House, 6–8pm)
- April 19, 2017: Case Writer: Larry Jones (Old Bailey House, 5pm)
- April 20, 2017: Poetry Festival – Cultural Expressions/Open Mic (Multicultural Center 12–1pm)
- April 20, 2017: English Department Awards Ceremony (Lamoine Room, 6–8pm)
- April 21, 2017: Second Annual Poetry Festival – John Hallwas Lecture "Voices and Visions: Nineteenth–Century Illinois Poetry" (Regional Arts Center, 2–3pm)
- April 21, 2017: Faculty Department Awards (Lamoine Room, 4pm)
- April 21, 2017: Game Studies Group: Cooperative Narrative Exploration (Kozmic Game Emporium, 4–5:30pm)
- April 22, 2017: Department Picnic (Everly Park, 12pm)
- April 24, 2017: Support the Film Minor in the Western Challenge
- April 24, 2017: Last day to submit poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day (via email to TR-Dimmick@wiu.edu)
- April 27, 2017: Poem in Your Pocket Day
- May 1, 2017: Film Club Screening: Muriel's Wedding (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- May 1, 2017: Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony (Colchester, 5pm)
- May 5, 2017: Game Studies Group: Dread (Kozmic Game Emporium, 4–5:30pm)
- May 10, 2017: Reading of SITREP: Veteran Perspectives on Combat and Peace (University Art Gallery 4–5:30pm)
- June 7, 2017: Summer Film Screening: Miracle in the Rain (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- June 14, 2017: Summer Film Screening: To Live (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- June 21, 2017: Summer Film Screening: Let No Man Write My Epitaph (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- June 28, 2017: Summer Film Screening: Local Hero (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- July 5, 2017: Summer Film Screening: The Hazing (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- July 12, 2017: Summer Film Screening: Why Rock the Boat? (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- July 19, 2017: Summer Film Screening: Rip Van Wyk (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
- July 26, 2017: Summer Film Screening: Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. Leonard Cohen & shorts from 1960s (Sandburg Theater, 5:30pm)
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