Molly James (B.A. '20, M.A. '22) My love for the fantastic drove me to pursue a bachelor’s degree in English, but I've always struggled to find myself in the urban fantastic. These stories take place in large cities or in locales that I never had the opportunity to visit growing up; in response, many of … Continue reading Grad Student Spotlight: Molly James
For several years, the English Department has reviewed options for a course dedicated to helping our undergraduate students find their career path. This fall, we're excited to launch our pilot offering: ENGL 599 "Career Paths in English and the Humanities." This one-credit hour course will provide, in an 8-week concentrated format, elements of career planning … Continue reading Career Paths in English and the Humanities
Banned Books Week 2020 (Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association) When thinking of acts of rebellion, reading usually isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. It can be hard to think of people like my brother who can hardly wait to give people books or those who restock community Little Libraries as literary … Continue reading Celebrate Banned Books Week 2021
Suzanne Donnelly (In-Country Director, English Partnership, Kabul University/Kansas State University) and Mary Copple (Associate Professor, K-State Department of Modern Languages) at Kabul University in 2009 One of the first official documents I signed when I became Department Head in June 2007 was the "Partnership Contract Agreement for English Faculty at Balkh University in Mazar-e Sharif, … Continue reading K-State Partnerships with Kabul University and Balkh University, 2007-2010
Cherie Dimaline visits Kansas State University via Zoom (23 Sept 2021) Tonight, as part of the programming for K-State First Book, we were fortunate to hear Cherie Dimaline speak about her work, The Marrow Thieves, the 2021 selection for the university's common reading program. In telling her own story and the story behind the book, … Continue reading Cherie Dimaline at Kansas State
Cheryl Collins presents at "150 Years of Tall Tales, Heroes, and Outright Lies," a panel sponsored by the Department of English (25 Sept 2011) We were so sorry to hear last week of the passing of Cheryl Collins. Cheryl served as Director of the Riley County Historical Museum for more than 30 years, and, since … Continue reading Remembering Cheryl Collins
This semester I am teaching the ENGL 825 graduate seminar class as "Narrative Medicine," which is an interdisciplinary field that unites the narrative skill of close reading/listening and creativity to address the need for a deeper communication in healthcare. To kick things off, we started with hefty texts like Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor and … Continue reading The Body as Metaphor
Cover for Lisa Tatonetti's Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities (U of Minnesota P, 2021). Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department's recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards. The issue for September showcases a greater range of research, scholarship, and creative activity that our faculty … Continue reading Summer 2021 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Steven Miller (MA '15) "Late Have I Taught You" Whenever I told people I wanted to study English, they would invariably reply, “So you want to be a teacher.” I would laugh—ha!—and tell them I’d never be a teacher. I wanted to be a great novelist. Apparently, they knew more than I did. After a … Continue reading Alumni Spotlight: Steven Miller
J. Edgar Mihelic (MA '21) When I first entered the English Department as a Master’s student back in the fall of 2005, I had an idea that I was going to be an English professor. There were two things I didn’t know at the time. The first was everything involved in every step of the … Continue reading Grad Student Spotlight: Edgar Mihelic
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