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Spring 2016 News
Faculty/Staff News:
- Ellen Poulter wins Academic Advisor of the month
- TedX Videos Highlighting our Outstanding English Faculty
- Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Roberta Di Carmine
- Dinner and Conversations with Roberta Di Carmine
- English Professor Charles Wright and Sue Mayer Obituary
- English Professor Emeritus Forrest Dean Robinson Funeral Services Set
- Beth Stiffler Obituary
- WIU Mourns Death of Department of English Employee Laura Cripe
Student News:
- WIU Student, Ryan Bronaugh, Publication Part of Medal of Honor Ceremony
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Undergraduate Research Day Abstracts 2016
- Emma Goldman | The Beauty Myth Played Through in Video Games
- Haley Helgesen | The Carnivalesque and Dialogic: An Analysis of the Feminist Webcomics “Mom Body” and “Hark, A Vagrant”
- Bailey Jansen | Consequences of Body Shame & Judgement
- Talis Shelbourne | Journalism Ethics: An Examination of Media Accountability Systems, Precedent Cases and Current Ethical Dilemmas
- Keona Morris | The Link between Cultural Media and Social Classes: An Analysis of Snowpiercer
- Jon Naskrent | Modernism and Individual Classification in Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” and “The Man That Was Used Up”
- Rachel Papiernik | The Second Amendment Gets a College Rejection Letter
- Mattea Scanlan | Beauty: A Result of Evolution
- English Students Win Undergraduate Research Award
- Students from WIU’s English department and our local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society win Convention Paper Award and elected a Midwestern Student Representative this past weekend in Minneapolis
Event News:
- Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony 2016
- WIU Libraries to Host Events for Inaugural Macomb Poetry Festival Celebration April 21-23
- WIU-QC Student Groups Celebrate National Poetry Month with April 22 and 29 Events
- Chicago Filmmaker Michael Caplan to Screen and Discuss "Algren: The Movie" at Western
- Danticat to Present as Fred Ewing Case and Lola Austin Case Writer in Residence at WIU
- This year's Magliocco Lecture was Dr. Jimmy Guignard
- Black Out Poetry Festival News Article
- Writing Festival for High School Students
Other News:
- Summer 2016 and Fall 2016 Course Descriptions are ready
- Summer Film Series - The Dead Filmmakers Society 2016
- WIU English Department's Harry Potter Summer Program
- The University Writing Center made it in the Honors College newsletter
- WIU's Phi Delta Chapter Wins International Honor
- Veterans Literary Magazine Celebrates New Issue
- Veterans Magazine Planning Second Edition written by Dr. Wilson–Jordan. SITREP is now seeking submissions. See posters for more information: Veteran Voices 2016 Written Edition and Cover Art Contest
- WIU's Literary Magazine, Elements, is now accepting submissions for the 2016 Publication
- 2016 Creative Writing Awards submissions are now being accepted
Spring 2016 Publications
The Mirror and The Lamp (blog)
Mirror and the Lamp 2016 (pdf)
Western Voices
- See archive of winners for the 2016 edition from papers submitted in 2015
Elements & Creative Writing Awards
SITREP: Veterans Perspectives on Combat and Peace
Spring 2016 Recurring Events:
- Writing Committee meets every Wednesday (except Spring Break) (Simpkins 127, 3–4pm)
- CC Department meets every Wednesday starting March 2 (except Spring Break and finals week) (Simpkins 19, 4pm)
Spring 2016 Calendar of Events in Order:
- January 27, 2016: Film Club Screening: The 100 Year–Old Man (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- February 4, 2016: CC Department Meeting (Simpkins 19, 10am)
- February 5, 2016: Boiler Room Reading Series: Dr. Mark Mossman, Jared Worley, Klaira Strickland, & Sheldon Gaskell (University Art Gallery, 4–5pm)
- February 9, 2016: Writing Faculty Meeting (Simpkins 14, 4–5pm)
- February 9, 2016: Sigma Tau Delta Bake Sale (Simpkins, 10am–4pm)
- February 10, 2016: Sigma Tau Delta Bake Sale (Simpkins, 10am–4pm)
- February 10, 2016: Film Club Screening: Sudden Fear (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- February 11, 2016: Graduate Faculty Meeting (Simpkins, 3:30pm)
- February 11, 2016: Sigma Tau Delta Bake Sale (Simpkins, 10am–4pm)
- February 17, 2016: CC Department Meeting (Simpkins 19, 12pm)
- February 24, 2016: CC Department Meeting (Simpkins 14, 12pm)
- February 24, 2016: Film Club Screening: Monkey Business (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- February 24, 2016: English Department Meeting (Simpkins 14, 12pm)
- March 3, 2016: Boiler Room Reading Series: Dr. Alisha White, Jon Naskrent, Jocelyn James, and Micah Tuhy (University Art Gallery, 4–5pm)
- March 9, 2016: Writing Faculty Meeting (Simpkins 14, 4–5pm)
- March 9, 2016: Film Club Screening: Pink Floyd The Wall (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- March 23, 2016: Film Club Screening: Westworld (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- March 24, 2016: Lola Case Writer–in–Residence Series: Edwidge Danticat (Sherman Hall Auditorium, 5pm)
- April 6, 2016: Film Club Screening: Ghost in the Shell (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- April 6, 2016: Disability Culture Day "Disability Theory in Young Adult Literature" Presented by Alisha White (Capitol Room, 2pm)
- April 7, 2016: Lola Case Writer–in–Residence Series: Ryka Aoki (Taylor Hall, 5pm)
- April 8, 2016: Dinner & Conversations with Dr. Roberta Di Carmine "The Wish to Travel: Reflections on Experiencing the World through Traveling" (Old Bailey House, 5pm)
- April 8, 2016: Case Writer–in–Residence Series Q&A: Ryka Aoki(Simpkins 25, 11am)
- April 12, 2016: Writing Faculty Meeting (Simpkins 14, 4–5pm)
- April 13, 2016: Chicago Filmmaker Michael Caplan to Screen and Discuss "Algren: The Movie" (Morgan 107, 7pm)
- April 18, 2016: Macomb Poetry Festival Kickoff Event (New Copperfield Book Service, 3–5pm)
- April 20, 2016: Film Club Screening: Senna (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- April 21, 2016: Inaugural Macomb Poetry Festival: Poem in Your Pocket Day (New Copperfield Book Service), Black Out Poetry Session (Malpass 180, 11–12pm)
- April 21, 2016: Magliocco Lecture: Dr. Jimmy Guignard (Sandburg Theater, 7–9pm)
- April 22, 2016: Boiler Room Reading Series: Dr. Merill Cole, Meghan Haupers, Dakota Carlson, and Alyson Eagan (University Art Gallery, 4–5pm)
- April 23, 2016: The Annual English Department Picnic (Everly Park, 12pm)
- April 28, 2016: Last Lecture presented by Dr. Merrill Cole - The Last Lecture Series provides an informal occasion for student-nominated faculty to share reflections from their life's journey and to speak to students as if it were their last lecture ever. Faculty members speak from the premise, "if you knew this was the last lecture you would ever give, what would you share with your students?" (Morgan 109, 7pm)
- May 4, 2016: Film Club Screening: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Simpkins 220, 6–8pm)
- May 6: Game Studies Group: Finals Week Style
- May 11, 2016: SITREP Reading Reception (University Art Gallery, 4pm)
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