April 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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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

Shakespeare and Fun

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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

Found Object: 2025 M.A. Projects

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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

Undergrad Student Spotlight: 2025 Kirmser Awards

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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

From the Archive: Alumni Spotlight: Brooke Williams

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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

2024-2025 Annual Awards

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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

Doing DH

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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

PCA Conference 2025

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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

March 2025 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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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

Open House 2025

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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