Alumni Profile: Whitney Pratz
Whitney Pratz Operations Manager, The Planetary Society BA 2007, MFA 2010 How did your major prepare you for the job, the life you have now? How did you get from your major to the work, the life you have now? […]
2016 Summer Education Abroad Program: Zambia
An important message from Professor Ellen Brinks: Dear English students, Are you interested in doing meaningful community education and community health work this summer – in Africa? And earning three academic credits for it? As faculty-director of the 2016 summer Education […]
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Donors support our students through scholarships, fellowships, and endowments. Students tell us that receiving donor support allowed them to focus on their studies by reducing the hours needed for part-time work. Donor support also advances the high-quality education that students need […]
Spring 2016 Internships Available
Unless otherwise noted, the internships listed below are open to qualifying undergraduate and graduate students. SPRING: Publishing/Editorial Internships: Editorial Interns, Bloomsbury Review (Denver, CO) Writing/Editorial Internships (several positions), The Borgen Project (remote) Educational Internships: Adult ESL Teacher, Global Refugee […]
Spring 2016 Internships Available
Unless otherwise noted, the internships listed below are open to qualifying undergraduate and graduate students. SPRING: Publishing/Editorial Internships: Editorial Interns, Bloomsbury Review (Denver, CO) Writing/Editorial Internships (several positions), The Borgen Project (remote) Educational Internships: Adult ESL Teacher, Global Refugee […]
Faculty Profile: Amanda Memoli
The English Department Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) Committee does all kinds of good work. One good thing is their newsletter “In Addition…News from the English Department’s NTTF Committee.” One of the features of the newsletter, which is sent monthly to […]
News of Note Week of December 14th
Tom Conway received news that he was chosen for a College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. Jaime Jordan along with her husband, Robert Jordan (who teaches in the history dept) was awarded a 2016 Carl A. Bimson Humanities […]
News of Note Week of November 7th
Zach Hutchins has been awarded a 2016 Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH support will facilitate research on Hutchins’s current book project, a prehistory of the North American slave narrative. For his research, Hutchins is reading thousands […]
9 Unique Gifts for Literature Lovers
With finals approaching and papers, projects, and presentations looming for us English majors, you may also have one thing in the back of your mind that you’ve been avoiding: holiday shopping. How are you supposed to find that perfect […]
MFA Thesis Reading, a Reflection from Ashley Alfirevic
~from English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic For the last time of the Fall semester, everyone gathered in the UCA’s Art Gallery for the final Creative Wring and Reading Series event. Though the readings always feel congenial with all of […]