Deborah Murray accompanied Desiree Schippers (BA '19) to the award ceremony where Desiree received a 2025 Rising Professional Award. On March 27, 2025, along with ten other alumni, Desiree Schippers, 2019 B.A. in English/creative writing, with a secondary major in gerontology, was recognized by the College of Health and Human Sciences as a rising professional. … Continue reading Desiree Schippers, Rising Professional
Students from ENGL 698 "Capstone: Performing the Middle Ages" pose with a medieval manuscript and modern memory devices in a Spencer Library classroom at the University of Kansas. My version of the capstone course for advanced English majors, “Performing the Middle Ages,” always features an experiential component. For example, when the Actors from the London … Continue reading Performing the Middle Ages via Experiential Learning
Desiree Schippers (BA ’19) at work behind the camera. 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 … Continue reading From the Archive: Undergrad Student Spotlight: Desiree Schippers
In her role as Kansas Poet Laureate, Traci Brimhall is launching Poets on the Plains. Produced by High Plains Public Radio (HPPR), the series will explore a sense of people and place through poetry. I love poetry on the page, but I also love hearing it spoken aloud. That is, after all, its origin as … Continue reading Poets on the Plains
A scene from Haunted Pond, one of the entries for the 2024 48-Hour Film Challenge 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 … Continue reading From the Archive: Watch Out, Hollywood!
Display case by graduate student offices with calendar for March 2020 (Photo: March 10, 2021) 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 … Continue reading From the Archive: One Year Later
Cover for Barnaby, Vol. 5 (Fantographics, 2025), edited by Phil Nel. 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 … Continue reading February 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Image: mapyourtravels.com Today we share the fifth of six pieces of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English” — and the first 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 an academic paper … Continue reading Location: Temporary
Screenshot from Final Fantasy VII with a fake dialog box generated using FFVII UI Today we share the fourth of six pieces of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English” — and the first selection from Section A of ENGL 801, taught last fall by Cameron Leader-Picone: … Continue reading Sarcasm at the End of the World
Location: 2nd Floor, English Counseling Services BuildingObject: Whiteboard (February 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) After two weeks of extremely cold winter weather and … Continue reading Found Object: Spring Favorites
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