Implementing a New Mission To critically prepare English Educators who are committed to teaching English Language Arts. To empower students to understand who they are and how they should live and work as advocates and allies for justice in their communities. The English Education Program has recently engaged in a mission and visioning process which has … [Read more...] about A New Mission and Course: Update from the English Education Program
By: Hank Essman The Department of English celebrates and highlights the achievements of alumni as they find careers with their degrees. This week, Ingrid Bohnenkamp, current Kindergarten teacher and former Springfield-Greene County Library manager, discusses how her English degree has prepared her for her job. What is your current job? What does that job entail? Until … [Read more...] about The Alum Report: Ingrid Bohnenkamp
The editors of Moon City Review, the annual journal published by the Missouri State English Department, are accepting entries for the 2020 MSU Literary competitions in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. The competitions are open to all graduate and undergraduate students currently enrolled in at least one course at Missouri State University’s main Springfield Campus … [Read more...] about Missouri State University Student Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Competitions
Literature Program Update Believe it or not, the MSU Literature Program has jumped into the new semester energized by current events and ready to seize the opportunities of the present moment. While the circumstances around the Covid-19 pandemic are certainly not the ones we would have chosen, our faculty’s responses have been creative and thoughtful in the (sometimes virtual) … [Read more...] about Teaching During Unprecedented Times
Moon City Review is the official literary journal of Moon City Press, housed here at MSU in the Department of English. Every year, we have several staff positions open up for students, and we are now looking to fill those positions. We accept applications from any English Department major or minor, but may have to favor grad students and upper class students, as we have a … [Read more...] about Student Opportunity with Moon City Review