(Image: "The Future of Work and Human Collaboration") In ENGL 801 "Graduate Studies in English," a required course for incoming M.A. students, we have always asked our graduate students to develop an original contribution to a current scholarly conversation about a literary or cultural text. Starting in 2020, we added a final writing assignment: we … Continue reading Who is Writing?
Phillip Marzluf's essay appears in Studies in Travel Writing (10 Oct. 2025) Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department's recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards. We're happy to recognize the recent successes in research, scholarship, and creative activity outlined below. Want to catch up on past successes or to find future … Continue reading November 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Location: Department digital archivesObject: Photo from the Mock Caldecott held 7 Dec. 2019Observations: 1) This photo captures some of the undergraduate and graduate students who participated in the Mock Caldecott in December 2019, an annual event sponsored by the Department and one of our student organizations, the Children's and Adolescent Literature Community, with support from … Continue reading Found Object: Mock Caldecott Favorites 2019
Professor Emeritus Don Hedrick shares highlights from his recently released book Shakespeare and Fun: The Birth of Entertainment Value (Bloomsbury, 2025) Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 500+ posts. While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently. … Continue reading From the Archive: Shakespeare and Fun
Location: 2nd Floor, English Counseling Services BuildingObject: Whiteboard (November 2025)Observations: 1) Since 2023, the whiteboard on the 2nd floor of ECS has continued to pose questions, ask for opinions, and prompt stories. 2) For the past two weeks, it has been collecting suggestions for the Thanksgiving Break that can "genuinely restore" us to ourselves. 3) … Continue reading Found Object: Thanksgiving Break
Some of the 2025 picture books under consideration for this year's Mock Caldecott Now in its 18th year, the Mock Caldecott is a joint endeavor between the English Department and the Children's and Adolescent Literature Community (ChALC), one of our department-sponsored student organizations, with support from the Manhattan Public Library (MPL). In the pre-COVID times, … Continue reading 2025 Mock Caldecott
Location: Department digital archivesObject: Flyer (December 2015)Observations: 1) Since well before my arrival to the department in 2000, there has been a SAGE Colloquium. 2) This annual contribution to the department's Fall Colloquia Series is sponsored by SAGE -- the Student Association of Graduates in English -- in concert with the department and our Graduate … Continue reading Found Object: SAGE Colloquium 2015
Alexander Hurla (BA ’22) Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 500+ posts. While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently. So, we're highlighting periodically some of the posts that have garnered a lot of views or that … Continue reading From the Archive: Undergrad Student Spotlight: Alexander Hurla
Philip Nel's contribution to the OUPblog titled "Turn off AI. Pick up a crayon" (10 Oct 2025). Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department's recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards. We're happy to recognize the recent successes in research, scholarship, and creative activity outlined below. Want to catch up … Continue reading October 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
A slip from the Dream Nest submitted by a visitor to the Guggenheim Museum's Dream Walks (2025) This year I have been traveling back and forth between Manhattan, Kansas, where I live, and Manhattan in New York City for my role as the Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. In Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard says … Continue reading Poetry and Community
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