Peony in bloom, Manhattan, KS (May 2025) Final grades for Spring 2025 are submitted, it's much quieter on campus, and the peonies are in their final bloom. It's time for summer -- and a well-earned break after a busy academic year. We hope the change of seasons brings everyone some time to rest, relax, and … Continue reading Spring into Summer
Cover for Beyond Little Women: Essays on the Secondary Works of Louisa May Alcott (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025), which includes an essay by Greg Eiselein. 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 … Continue reading April 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Professor Emeritus Don Hedrick shares highlights from his recently released book Shakespeare and Fun: The Birth of Entertainment Value (Bloomsbury, 2025) On Friday May 9, faculty, students, alumni, colleagues, family, and friends gathered to celebrate the release of Professor Emeritus Don Hedrick's new book Shakespeare and Fun: The Birth of Entertainment Value -- a long-awaited … Continue reading Shakespeare and Fun
Location: Social media.Object: Project Titles, graduating M.A. students.Observations: 1) Each spring, for many years, we displayed the M.A. Project and Thesis titles of our graduating M.A. students at our annual spring Awards Banquet. 2) For the past few years, we have continued a newer tradition: with the help of our 2025 Graduate Program Assistant Mary … Continue reading Found Object: 2025 M.A. Projects
Fire D20 Dice (Image by Carlee Kime) Today we share the final piece of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English” — and the third selection from Section A of ENGL 801, taught last fall by Cameron Leader-Picone: a piece of public scholarship (700-1,000 words) which tailors … Continue reading Dungeons & Dragons: From Satanism to Stranger Things
Emma Rupprecht (BA ') and Harrison Jones (BA '28) Our Undergraduate Student Spotlight typically features a single student reflecting on the experience of English at K-State. Today, we feature the four undergraduate English majors who have been recognized with a 2025 Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award for their success in research and writing. The Kirmser Undergraduate … Continue reading Undergrad Student Spotlight: 2025 Kirmser Awards
Brooke Williams (MA ’11) sits with Willie the Wildcat in the K-State Student Union on a visit to K-State’s campus to participate in the 2017 Alumni Career Panel. 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!), … Continue reading From the Archive: Alumni Spotlight: Brooke Williams
Program for the 2024-2025 Annual Awards Celebration Earlier this evening we gathered at the Alumni Center and online to celebrate the success of students and faculty. As we have since 2023, we exchanged the sit-down banquet from the pre-COVID days for a less formal reception which allowed for more conversation -- and an earlier evening. … Continue reading 2024-2025 Annual Awards
Anne Longmuir, Mark Crosby, and Sara Kearns collaborate on annotations for Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Speckled Band" The Digital Humanities Center in the Department of English hosted a drop-in event for faculty and students on Wednesday, April 30 to explore annotating literary texts in a digital environment. Textual annotation, as we know, is a practice … Continue reading Doing DH
Location: 2nd Floor, English Counseling Services BuildingObject: Whiteboard (April 2025)Observations: 1) Since last academic year, the whiteboard on the 2nd floor of ECS has continued to pose questions, ask for opinions and recommendations, prompt stories, and offer hope and joy as well as semester goals. 2) April can be a hard month. Not only is … Continue reading Found Object: Humor and Joy
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