Next Friday night, October 21st, our department head, Dr. W.D. Blackmon, will be the featured reader at the Moon City Faculty Invitational Reading at 7 PM in the PSU Theater. This reading will celebrate the publication of Blood and Milk: A Novel in Stories and provide faculty, students, and the community an opportunity to hear excerpts from the book and attend a book signing … [Read more...] about Dr. W.D. Blackmon’s Featured Fiction Reading
A few weeks ago, one of the English department’s graduate teaching assistants, Ramey McCracken, was honored at a Missouri State women’s soccer game. McCracken was chosen by one of her English 110 students, Brooke Oostendorp, as a teacher who is making a major impact on her college career. McCracken, along with others chosen by members of the women’s soccer team, was … [Read more...] about Ramey McCracken honored by women’s soccer team
Travis Mossotti and Sara Burge Reading at Missouri State University is now available for you to watch online. Travis Mossotti has been an English Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, McKendree University, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and he will continue teaching in St. Louis in the fall. He will be reading from his new book About the … [Read more...] about Watch the Travis Mossotti and Sara Burge Reading Online
Thomas Crank graduated with his Master's in Composition and Rhetoric at Missouri State University, and he is now teaching sophomore and post graduate English at East China Institute of Technology in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Below is a letter he sent to the English department describing his first experiences in China. Hello, I am finally settled in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, … [Read more...] about Teaching English in China
The Missouri State University English Department is excited to announce a reading event next Tuesday evening, 7 p.m. September 27th in Plaster Student Union Theater. Guest poet Travis Mossotti is visiting campus and will be featured along with our own Sara Burge. There will be a book signing for both Travis and Sara after the reading in the Paw Prints Bookstore (located inside … [Read more...] about Travis Mossotti and Sara Burge Reading and Book Signing