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
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
The Missouri State University Creative Writing program is hosting the Fall 2011 Soul of a Poet reading next Tuesday night, Sept. 20th, at 7 PM in The Library Center on South Campbell. The featured readers are Joseph Cover (fiction) and Lora Knight (poetry). Joe Cover has a Masters in English and has been teaching Creative Writing at Missouri State University since 2003. … [Read more...] about Soul of a Poet