College of Arts and Sciences
Â鶹´«Ã½ Home > CAS > English > Events News > News-archives
Fall 2016 News
Faculty/Staff News:
- English Secretary, Lynne Ward, Wins CAS Civil Service Award
- Tiffany DimmickÌýhired as English Department Graduate and Writing Program Office Support Associate
- Â鶹´«Ã½ Foundation Summer Stipend Award Recipients: Rebekah Buchanan - First Year English Language Arts Teaching in Rural Schools & Timothy Helwig - Writing the Working Class: The Literacy and Rhetorical Discourse of Class Protest in Antebellum American Print Culture.
Student News:
- Midwestern Regent Timothy Helwig and Midwestern Student Representative Haley Helgesen at the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society fall board meeting, representing Â鶹´«Ã½
- 10 Students' Paper Proposals Accepted for STD National Conference
- Â鶹´«Ã½ Students Win 1st & 3rd Place in Sigma Tau Delta Blog Contest
- English Education Students Present at IATE - Fall 2016 Conference - "Connecting to Home through Artifactual Literacies Projects."
- ; seeÌýpicture
Event News:
- EGO/STD Conference: "Economy: Moral Challenges and Opportunities": A Conference on Language and Literature
- Shakespeare Film Festival Comes to Â鶹´«Ã½: Â鶹´«Ã½'s #Shakespeare400 Film Series is Part of Military Appreciation Week (pdf)
- Â鶹´«Ã½ Film Minor Adam Colgan Screens His Documentary Film; News Release
- The FYE American Gothic Literature Class has Edgar A. Poe Party
- Ryan Walker Presented His Nonfiction Film "The Bootlegger"
- English Department Open House Was a Success
- President Jack Thomas Addresses Sigma Tau Delta
ÌýOther News:
- Spring 2017 Course Descriptions are ready
- Â鶹´«Ã½ Film Minor Provides Wide Variety of Cinematic Experience
- Film Club Celebrates Last Meeting for the Semester
- Living Learning Community for LAS Have Individual Discussions
- Holiday Decorations are in Swing in the Department of English
Ìý
Fall 2016 Publications
- Ìýby Tiffany Dimmick
- Ìýby Jon Naskrent
- Ìýby Haley Helgesen
- Ìýby Emily Swain
- Ìýby Chris Bell
- Ìýby Molly Cameron
- Ìýby Rebecca Gonner
Ìý
Fall 2016 Calendar of Events in Order:
- September 6, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Summer Wars (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- September 7, 2016:ÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½ #Shakespeare400 Film Series: Much Ado About Nothing (Sandburg Theater, 6:30pm)
- September 9, 2016:ÌýEGO Abstracts Due
- September 9, 2016: (Kozmic Game Emporium, 3-5pm)
- September 16, 2016:ÌýBoiler Room Reading Series #1:ÌýDr. William Knox, Chris Bell, Holly Griffith (University Art Gallery, 4-5pm)
- September 20, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: The Long, Long Trailer (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- September 23, 2016:Ìý (Kozmic Game Emporium, 3-5pm)
- September 30, 2016:ÌýEGO/STD Keynote speaker, Dr. Jennifer RuthÌý“Citizenship in the Age of Financialization: From Hannah Arendt to George Saunders to Gary Shteyngart" (Morgan Hall 109, 7pm)
- October 1, 2016:ÌýEGO/STD Conference: "Economy: Moral Challenges and Opportunities": A Conference on Language and Literature
- October 4, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Near Dark (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- October 5, 2016:ÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½ #Shakespeare400 Film Series: Henry V (Sandburg Theater, 6:30pm)
- October 7, 2016:ÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½ Game Studies: Minimalist Horror Games (Kozmic Game Emporium, 3-5pm)
- October 11, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Martin (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- October 12, 2016:ÌýCase-Writer Stuart Dybek (Sherman Hall Auditorium, 5pm)
- October 12, 2016:ÌýEnglish Student Organization Open HouseÌýJoin Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society, English Graduate Organization, Writer's Block, Film Club, and Game Studies Group to learn about the upcoming events and activities going on throughout the year. There will be root beer floats, pizza. and games as well (Simpkins 25, 3-4:45pm)
- October 18. 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Planet of the Vampires (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- October 21, 2016:Ìý (Kozmic Game Emporium, 3-5pm)
- October 21, 2016: IATE Fall 2016 Conference (Bloomington, IL)
- October 25, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Let the Right One In (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- October 25, 2016:ÌýPresident Jack Thomas speaks to STD (Knoblauch 239, 6pm)
- October 28, 2016:ÌýBoiler Room Reading Series #2:ÌýDr. Patricia Young, Adrienne Tinsley, Stephanie Hoover (University Art Gallery, 4-5pm)
- October 28, 2016: Talks about Faculty Research Projects: Rebekah Buchanan, Everett Hamner, Dan Malachuk, and Shazia Rahman (CODEC, 5pm)
- October 30, 2016: Talks about Faculty Research Projects: Merrill Cole, Jose Fernandez, and Magdelyn Helwig (CODEC, 2pm)
- November 1, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Leon: the Professional (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- November 2, 2016:ÌýCase-Writer Joshua MacIvor-Andersen (University Art Gallery, 5-6pm)
- November 4, 2016:Ìý (Kozmic Game Emporium, 3-5pm)
- November 9, 2016:ÌýEnglish Department Fall Open House (Simpkins 9:30am-3:30pm)
- November 9, 2016:ÌýHarry Potter Study Abroad
- November 9, 2016:ÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½ #Shakespeare400 Film Series: Macbeth (Sandburg Theater, 6:30pm)
- November 10, 2016:ÌýFilmmaker Ryan Walker- "The Bootlegger" (Sandburg Theater, 6:30-8:30pm)
- November 12, 2016: Dinner and Conversations with Tim Helwig: “The Cult and Visual Culture of Edgar Allan Poe†(Dr. Helwig’s residence)
- November 15, 2016:ÌýHarry Potter Study Abroad Info Session (Simpkins 19, 5-6pm)
- November 15, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Pieces of April (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- November 29, 2016:ÌýScreening of Film Minor's Documentary: RX: Pot: The Journey For Pain Relief by Adam Colgan (Simpkins 220, 6-7pm)
- December 1, 2016:ÌýScreening of Documentary Film "Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier"
- December 2, 2016:ÌýFaculty/Staff CAS Awards Program (Lamoine Room, 4pm)
- December 2, 2016:ÌýBoiler Room Reading Series #3:ÌýDr. Chris Morrow, Haley Helgesen, Kayla Smith (University Art Gallery, 4-5pm)
- December 6, 2016:ÌýFilm Club Screening: Mac and Me (Simpkins 220, 6-8pm)
- December 7, 2016:ÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½ #Shakespeare400 Film Series: Hamlet (Sandburg Theater, 6:30pm)
- December 9, 2016:Ìý (Kozmic Game Emporium, 3-5pm)
Connect with Â鶹´«Ã½: