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
MA students attend the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans, LA (April 2025) Last week, ten graduate students from our M.A. program traveled by car to New Orleans to present at the 2025 Popular Culture Association (PCA) conference. Below they share highlights from their presentations and their experience at the conference. Many thanks … Continue reading PCA Conference 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 announcements? Visit our archive of monthly newsletters Reading Matters as … Continue reading March 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Abdullah Mustafa (BA '25) and Catherine Torkelson (BA '24) welcome guests to K-State English at the 2024 Open House. K-State's 2025 Open House is happening on Saturday April 12 — and K-State English is ready! As the preview page for Open House explains: Love to read or write? Explore your next chapter with a K-State … Continue reading Open House 2025
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
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
Cover for Songs of Innocence by William Blake (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024, distributed by University of Chicago Press), with an introduction by Mark Crosby. 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 … Continue reading Winter 2024-2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
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