tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012-03-08:/english/englishmain//5095 2012-05-23T18:05:12Z A blog for the Department of English. Movable Type Enterprise 4.31-en tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.356886 2012-05-23T16:58:50Z 2012-05-23T18:05:12Z

Check out the Spring 2012 Alumni Newsletter from the Creative Writing Program for news and features about alumni, current students, and faculty. The issue features interviews with Director Julie Schumacher, about her new book for young adults, The Unbearable Book...

Department of English Check out the Spring 2012 Alumni Newsletter from the Creative Writing Program for news and features about alumni, current students, and faculty. The issue features interviews with Director Julie Schumacher, about her new book for young adults, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls, and with Professor Charles Baxter, recent winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Finally, congratulations to this spring's graduates of the MFA program, who defended their creative theses earlier this month (photo left): Elizabeth Abbot, Lucas de Lima, Sarah Fox, Alex Grant, Amir Hussain, Chris Keimig, David Malley, Wahida Omar, Claire Stanford, Molly Sutton Kiefer, and Andrea Uptmor.]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.356441 2012-05-17T14:57:46Z 2012-05-17T15:00:45Z

Congratulations to our doctoral and Creative Writing Program graduates, who have secured tenure track positions this year at the following institutions: University of Arkansas, Fort Smith; Fresno Pacific University; Georgia Perimeter College; LaGuardia Community College in New York; St. Francis...

Department of English Congratulations to our doctoral and Creative Writing Program graduates, who have secured tenure track positions this year at the following institutions: University of Arkansas, Fort Smith; Fresno Pacific University; Georgia Perimeter College; LaGuardia Community College in New York; St. Francis University; Seattle University; University of St. Thomas; Washington University, St. Louis; and University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.356392 2012-05-16T18:28:34Z 2012-05-16T18:43:23Z

Poet Marilyn Nelson (PhD 1979) in April received the Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's highest award. The Medal is presented annually for "distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry." Previous winners of this award include Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen...

Department of English Poet Marilyn Nelson (PhD 1979) in April received the Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's highest award. The Medal is presented annually for "distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry." Previous winners of this award include Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore, and Charles Simic, who was the 2011 recipient. Nelson reads in Minneapolis 7:30 pm May 21 at Plymouth Congregational Church.]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.355771 2012-05-14T14:17:52Z 2012-05-16T18:49:35Z

Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing Charles Baxter has won the 2011 Rea Award for the Short Story, given annually to a living American or Canadian writer whose published work has made a "significant contribution in the discipline of the short...

Department of English Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing Charles Baxter has won the 2011 Rea Award for the Short Story, given annually to a living American or Canadian writer whose published work has made a "significant contribution in the discipline of the short story as an art form." The Rea Award honors writers "for originality and influence on the genre," rather than any one collection or story. Baxter receives $30,000 and joins a list of acclaimed honorees including Alice Munro, Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, and John Updike. The jurors this year were Lorrie Moore, Stuart Dybeck, and Bill Henderson. Baxter's latest book, the 2011 Gryphon: New & Selected Stories, was noted in the jurors' citation, which reads in part: "Charles Baxter is a writer of elegant sentences, an expert in the mechanics of dramatic narration, and a master of psychological exile, which is the unexotic but special terrain of the short story." Meanwhile, the Star Tribune named him "Best Novelist" in its May 16 Best of Minnesota section. (The Star Tribune also named MA alumna Erin Hart Best Mystery Writer and BA/MA/PhD alumna Joyce Sutphen runner-up to Robert Bly for Best Poet.) Congratulations! ]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.355332 2012-05-08T14:09:58Z 2012-05-08T14:53:15Z

Start your summer reading now! Associate Professor Katherine Scheil this spring published She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (Cornell University Press, 2012), a fascinating look at how book clubs provided encouragement for female literary education during...

Department of English Start your summer reading now! Associate Professor Katherine Scheil this spring published She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (Cornell University Press, 2012), a fascinating look at how book clubs provided encouragement for female literary education during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--and a path into public life. This is Professor Scheil's third book. In May, Professor Julie Schumacher publishes her fifth book for younger readers, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls (Delacorte, 2012). She won a 2007 Minnesota Book Award for her novel The Book of One Hundred Truths.]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.355325 2012-05-08T14:09:37Z 2012-05-15T16:35:26Z

Two PhD candidates were awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2012-13: Sunyoung Ahn (adviser: Tim Brennan) and Will Kanyusik (adviser: Siobhan Craig). In addition, six PhD and MFA candidates received financial support this summer through the Graduate Research Partnership Program: Sunyoung...

Department of English Two PhD candidates were awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2012-13: Sunyoung Ahn (adviser: Tim Brennan) and Will Kanyusik (adviser: Siobhan Craig). In addition, six PhD and MFA candidates received financial support this summer through the Graduate Research Partnership Program: Sunyoung Ahn (advised by Tim Brennan), Sally Franson (Charles Baxter), Andrew Marzoni (Siobhan Craig), Caitlin McHugh (Katherine Scheil), Trenton Olson (Andy Elfenbein), and Kerry Voigt (Ray Gonzalez). In addition, the MFA program awarded CLA research/travel fellowships to Aaron Apps, Christine Friedlander, and Flor Lauria, while the PhD program awarded short-term research grants to Wes Burdine, Andrew Marzoni, and Davu Seru. Congratulations to all! tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.355339 2012-05-08T14:08:57Z 2012-05-14T14:17:31Z

Garrison Keillor (BA '66), wearing his bookstore owner hat, is presenting "Honor Thy Mother," a free reading 3 pm, Sunday, May 13, with Regents Professor Patricia Hampl, Professor Julie Schumacher, MFA alumna Shannon Olson, and Keillor himself. The event, sponsored...

Department of English Garrison Keillor (BA '66), wearing his bookstore owner hat, is presenting "Honor Thy Mother," a free reading 3 pm, Sunday, May 13, with Regents Professor Patricia Hampl, Professor Julie Schumacher, MFA alumna Shannon Olson, and Keillor himself. The event, sponsored by Keillor's emporium, Common Good Books, takes place at Macalester College's Weyerhaeuser Chapel (St. Paul). Professor Hampl and Keillor were editors together at the University of Minnesota undergraduate literary magazine Ivory Tower. Keillor and Olson, the author of Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken, once taught a class together on comedy writing at the U. ]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.354653 2012-05-02T15:47:29Z 2012-05-02T16:12:33Z

Professor Emeritus Norman Fruman, a member of the English faculty from 1978 to 1994, died April 19, at the age of 88 in Laguna Beach, California. Fruman was, as he told his friends, "famous and infamous" as the author of...

Department of English Professor Emeritus Norman Fruman, a member of the English faculty from 1978 to 1994, died April 19, at the age of 88 in Laguna Beach, California. Fruman was, as he told his friends, "famous and infamous" as the author of Coleridge, The Damaged Archangel (Braziller, 1971), which revealed that the English poet was a serial plagiarist. Fruman's book, described at the time as "relentlessly and devastatingly polemical and one of the most exciting I have read in years," by the New York Times critic, has been the focus of obituaries in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Star Tribune, and the Laguna Beach Patch. Fruman was also a combat platoon leader at the Battle of the Bulge and was afterward a German prisoner of war. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Doris, three children, and four grandchildren.]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.354493 2012-05-01T15:30:11Z 2012-05-01T15:32:24Z

This semester Graduate Studies in the Department of English is pleased to present a new series of workshops on various professional skills, the last of which takes place Friday May 4 at noon in Lind Hall 207A. This "Applying for...

Department of English This semester Graduate Studies in the Department of English is pleased to present a new series of workshops on various professional skills, the last of which takes place Friday May 4 at noon in Lind Hall 207A. This "Applying for Fellowships" session covers such topics as where to find fellowships, how to write a fellowship application, etc. Mandatory for English graduate students planning to apply for fellowships in the 2012-13 academic year. tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.354492 2012-05-01T15:16:18Z 2012-05-01T15:28:10Z

Three English undergraduates are graduating this spring with Community Engagement Scholars Program recognition: Kari Eloranta, Abdiasis Hirsi, and Anna Kraemer. This honor recognizes that the students have performed 400 hours of community engagement addressing social issues and community needs throughout...

Department of English Community Engagement Scholars Program recognition: Kari Eloranta, Abdiasis Hirsi, and Anna Kraemer. This honor recognizes that the students have performed 400 hours of community engagement addressing social issues and community needs throughout their undergraduate careers at the University of Minnesota. They also have completed reflections on those volunteer experiences, as well as a seminar and final project. The students receive recognition on their official transcripts and at commencement. The Department of English honored these students at our annual Campus Community Colloquium on April 30. Eloranta in addition received a University of Minnesota Alumni Association Student Leadership Award later that evening at the President's Student Leadership and Service Awards Banquet. Congratulations!]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.354485 2012-05-01T15:08:35Z 2012-05-01T15:12:32Z

Two PhD candidates will defend their dissertations this week. Elissa Hansen will present the public portion of her defense Wednesday, May 2, at 9:30 am in Heller Hall 1229. Molly Gage will present the public portion of her defense Friday,...

Department of English Two PhD candidates will defend their dissertations this week. Elissa Hansen will present the public portion of her defense Wednesday, May 2, at 9:30 am in Heller Hall 1229. Molly Gage will present the public portion of her defense Friday, May 4, at 10:30 am in Lind Hall 202. tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.351770 2012-04-19T13:18:45Z 2012-04-19T14:53:47Z

Ivory Tower, the literary and arts magazine created for and by undergraduates at the University of Minnesota, has won the Tony Diggs Innovation Award from the Student Activities Office. These Excellence Awards are intended to recognize student group achievements; the...

Department of English Ivory Tower, the literary and arts magazine created for and by undergraduates at the University of Minnesota, has won the Tony Diggs Innovation Award from the Student Activities Office. These Excellence Awards are intended to recognize student group achievements; the Innovation Award specifically recognizes student groups that have displayed innovation and/or fostered creativity through their program/events. Ivory Tower, which is edited and produced through the year-long English course Literary Magazine Production Lab, this year introduced the "Write and Return" program: circulating notebooks to encourage student writing and drawing on campus, as well as to boost submissions to the journal. Ivory Tower also helps organize the Writer's Block writing workshops, among other activities. The new issue of Ivory Tower is celebrated 7 pm, Wednesday, April 25, at the Whole in Coffman Union with readings, music, and art. Congratulations to the Ivory Tower staff and the writers and artists included in the 2012 Ivory Tower!]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.351460 2012-04-17T18:29:55Z 2012-04-17T18:37:44Z

Interested in getting a handle on the publishing world? The Department of English sponsors annual internships with the University of Minnesota Press. Two English majors are chosen for year-long internships in which they work on editorial, marketing, and production functions...

Department of English University of Minnesota Press. Two English majors are chosen for year-long internships in which they work on editorial, marketing, and production functions and receive four credits each semester. Application deadline for next year is April 20: email cover letter, unofficial transcript, and 2-3 page purpose statement drawing connections between academic work, this internship, and career goals. Must be of junior standing and have completed EngL 3001 Textual Analysis and at least two additional "foundation requirements" in major.]]> tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.351459 2012-04-17T18:25:44Z 2012-04-17T18:29:36Z

On Monday, April 30, the Annual English Department Campus-Community Colloquium takes place 12:45 - 2:15 pm in Lind Hall 207A. Students from Eric Daigre's year-long Community Learning Internships course will present about their literacy work in the K-12, nonprofit, and...

Department of English On Monday, April 30, the Annual English Department Campus-Community Colloquium takes place 12:45 - 2:15 pm in Lind Hall 207A. Students from Eric Daigre's year-long Community Learning Internships course will present about their literacy work in the K-12, nonprofit, and adult basic education worlds. Lively presentations, dialogues with community partners, and Q and A sessions. Food, beverages, and celebration! tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/english/englishmain//5095.351457 2012-04-17T18:19:29Z 2012-04-17T18:25:27Z

Ivory Tower presents an opportunity to work on revising poems with local poet Juliet Patterson this Wednesday the 18th in Coffman 304 at 5:30 pm. Patterson is a poet, community activist, and teaching artist living in Minneapolis. Her first book,...

Department of English Ivory Tower presents an opportunity to work on revising poems with local poet Juliet Patterson this Wednesday the 18th in Coffman 304 at 5:30 pm. Patterson is a poet, community activist, and teaching artist living in Minneapolis. Her first book, The Truant Lover, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize in 2004. Her forthcoming book, Threnody, speaks about ecological crisis and our "attempts to conceptualize nature and wilderness in the face of loss." If possible, PLEASE BRING 3-4 POEMS you'd like to take a fresh look at, but don't reread them before the workshop begins! Mesa pizza!]]>