Dec 7: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, Troll 2, 1990.
Dec 1: Rebekah Buchanan will present the CITR workshop “Writing in the Disciplines: Working with Students on Advanced Academic Argument” in Malpass 180, 2-3 pm. Read description and register.
Nov 30: Barbara Ashwood-Gegas and Magdelyn Helwig will present the CITR workshop “Using Low-Stakes Creative Writing Assignments to Engage Students” in Malpass 180, 2-3 pm. Read description and register.
Nov 30: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, Insomnia, 1997.
Nov 16: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, Potiche, 2010.
Nov 9: NCTE pairs with Pizza Hut-NCTE will receive 20% of sales when you present our flyer at the time of purchase 5-9pm. Flyers will be in faculty and staff mail boxes soon.
Nov 8-10: NCTE bake sale, 10am - 2pm. Northwest entrance of Simpkins Hall. Order forms for pies in faculty and staff mail boxes.
Oct 20: The Fall 2011 Fred Ewing & Lola Austin Case Visiting Writer, Susan Power, reading from her forthcoming book, Our Lady of a New World, at 7 pm in the Sherman Hall auditorium, 3rd floor.
Oct 19: The Fall 2011 Fred Ewing & Lola Austin Case Visiting Writer, Susan Power, interview and Q&A at 4:30 pm in the University Writing Center, Simpkins 341.
Oct 19: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975.
Oct 5: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, Candyman, 1992.
Oct 4: Jacque Wilson-Jordan, Christy Wherley, and Barb Harroun will present the CITR workshop “The Classroom as Learning Community: Using Drafting and Peer Review to Engage Students and Improve Writing” in Malpass 180, 12-1 pm. Read description and register.
Sept 30: Sigma Tau Delta will hold its first "Dinner & Conversations" potluck dinner starting at 6:00 pm, hosted by Professor Rebekah Buchanan. Read more.
Sept 22: Bradley Dilger will present the CITR workshop "Responding effectively and efficiently to writing assignments" in Malpass 180, 11am-12pm. Read description and register.
Sept 21: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, Catfish, 2010.
Sept 16: Meeting of the Graduate Faculty. 3pm, Simpkins 014.
Sept 15: Mary Olive Woods Lecture, given by Mary Taves. 7:30 pm, University Union Grand Ballroom. This is the first event in the program, "Imagination and Meaning: Discovering the Humanities."
Sept 12: Pre-lecture panel to discuss the topic of Mary Tave's lecture, “Playing Fair with Other People’s Religions: Science, History, and Claims of Revelation.” 3:30-5:00 pm, University Union Lincoln Room.
Sept 7: Film Club movie screening, Simpkins Hall 220, 7pm, The Fountain, 2006.
Sept 1: The University Library's first Listening Party this semester will be hosted by Rebekah Buchanan of the English & Journalism Department. Leslie F. Malpass Library, room 180. 12-1 pm.
Aug 22: Fall 2011 classes begin.
Aug 19: Graduate Student Program Orientation, 2-4:40pm, 341 Simpkins Hall.
Aug 18: 2011 Fall Faculty Assembly, 10am, University Union Grand Ballroom
Aug 18: English Graduate Organization (EGO) potluck picnic for grad students, faculty, staff, and family/friends. Everly Park, Valleybrook shelter. 6-9pm.
Aug 17: New Teaching Assistant Orientation, 8:30-1:15, University Union Capitol Rooms. View the schedule here.
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