Tag: Evelyn Vaughn
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Alumni Profile: Brianna Wilkins
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Brianna WilkinsSpring semester is done, graduation ceremonies have commenced and gone, and the renovation of Eddy Hall has officially begun. Where did the time go? Our first set of Communication Interns in the English department have also finished their work with us. We are so sad to see Brianna and Evelyn…
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Reading Series: Ben Findlay and Kaelyn Riley
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Read More: Reading Series: Ben Findlay and Kaelyn RileyAt the final MFA reading of the semester, the two readers were Ben Findlay and Kaelyn Riley, a fiction writer and a poet (respectively). The crowd was rather large for the UCA, and because I was early, I had the pleasure of watching people scramble trying to gather enough chairs…
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Reading Series: Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass
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Read More: Reading Series: Brenda Hillman and Robert HassFor the April 24th reading with Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass, we were not in the University Art Museum at the UCA. This time, we had the prestigious North Ballroom in the LSC because the large crowd of people who came to see these two poets would have knocked all…
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Alumna Profile: Brenna Yovanoff
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Read More: Alumna Profile: Brenna YovanoffBrenna Yovanoff MFA, Creative Writing, 2006 http://brennayovanoff.com/ How did your major prepare you for the job, the life you have now? The MFA program helped me in a lot of ways, but I’d say the biggest thing was probably that it taught me how to take critique and also to…
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Reading Series: Sam Tucker Iacovetto & Tara Smith
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Read More: Reading Series: Sam Tucker Iacovetto & Tara Smithby Evelyn Vaughn At the Creative Nonfiction thesis reading on April 17th, the night opened with a definition of the word “war.” According to the Oxford Online Dictionary, it is simply “a state of armed conflict,” but by the end of the night, those who attended the reading had several…
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Reading Series: Neely O’Connor, Artemis Savory, and Whitney Dean
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Read More: Reading Series: Neely O’Connor, Artemis Savory, and Whitney Deanby Evelyn Vaughn The reading on March 27th, 2014 consisted of three graduate students from the English Department’s Creative Non-Fiction Program. When I first arrived at the reading, as usual in the Art Museum portion of the University Center for the Arts, I was unaware that the readers that night…
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Humans of Eddy: Summers Baker
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Summers BakerName: Summers Baker Major: Creative Writing What’s your favorite moment in Eddy Hall? Seeing Dan Robinson in his kilt. Describe Eddy in one word. The Senate. That’s what I want you to write. Who’s your favorite author or poet? At the moment, my favorite poet that I’ve been reading is…
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Faculty Profile: Pam Coke
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Pam CokeAssociate Professor Pam Coke: B.A., English, University of Northern Iowa; Teaching certification in English and French; Ph.D., Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Iowa. Professor Coke teaches courses in adolescents’ literature, intermediate composition, teaching composition, teaching reading, teaching language, and teaching methods. Her research interests include the transition from elementary…
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Faculty Profile: Zach Hutchins
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Zach HutchinsAssistant Professor Zach Hutchins received his Ph.D. from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his dissertation earned the C. Hugh Holman Award. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as ELH, Early American Literature, Modern Language…
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Humans of Eddy: Megan Lemming
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Megan LemmingWriting Center Assistant Director: Megan Lemming What’s been your favorite moment in Eddy Hall? My favorite moments have been working with a student one-on-one, which was awesome. Also, our concentration is called Rhetoric and Composition, and we have a colloquia in this building where we all get together. I really…