Missouri State University’s English Department and Pagination Bookshop are collaborating to host a Virtual Author Event on February 2, 2022, at 7 PM CST. It will feature Margret Sullivan, who recently published her memoir, Fragments from a Mobile Life, and will be reading excerpts from it. Sullivan will be joined by MSU’s very own Dr. Etta Madden and Dr. John … [Read more...] about Virtual Author Event: Margaret Sullivan
The Missouri State English Department is proud to announce the reading schedule for the 2019-2020 academic year: 10/17/19, 6 p.m.,: Fiction Reading featuring Amanda Marbais & Erika T. Wurth, 400 Union Club 11/22/19, 7 p.m.,: Fall 2019 Student Invitational, Readers TBA, Plaster Student Union Theater 1/23/20, 6 p.m.,: Faculty Reading featuring Lanette Cadle … [Read more...] about 2019-2020 English Department Reading Schedule
Langston Hughes is most commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, but he spent his early life in the Midwest. Dr. Matthew Calihman, associate professor in the English department, said, "I do think Missouri is important to him," noting that regional geography and events often emerged in Hughes' writing. Visiting scholar and documentarian Dr. Carmaletta Williams will … [Read more...] about Explore the Midwestern roots of a literary icon