Last week, on March 11th, marked the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. Two SIUE College of Arts and Sciences professors are marking that anniversary with a reading this Wednesday, March 21. At 12:00 in the Stratton Quad, Jeff Skoblow, professor of English language and literature, and Eric Ruckh, associate […]
[Video] SIUE College of Arts and Sciences students personified a number of different items this past Thursday in the Morris University Center bookstore. The students read from a new anthology published in February that Stacey Brown, assistant professor of English language and literature, co-edited with Oliver de la Paz. The anthology, entitled ‘A Face to Meet the […]
Persona poetry has a long history in literature, but, according to one SIUE College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) professor, there has never been an anthology focusing only on the genre. She has changed this. There will be a public reading in the Morris University Center bookstore of a selection from the anthology on Thursday, […]
Students and faculty in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have access to an invaluable resource. The Faculty Writer’s Read Series, sponsored by the Stacey Brown, assistant professor of English language and literature and series creator and curator, gives faculty members an opportunity to show off their writing and gives students a chance access to […]
What is the connection between the Harlem Renaissance and the Hip-Hop movement of the 80’s and 90’s? According to Howard Rambsy, associate professor of English Language and literature in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), it is the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and ’70’s.
Cover art of The Black Arts Enterprise and the […]
Cover art from the 2011 edition of the River Bluff Review. photo courtesy of SIUE's Department of English Language and Literature.
Art and creative writing students still have a chance to be a part of the 20th edition of the River Bluff Review (RBR), according to Valerie Vogrin, associate professor of English language and literature. The deadline […]
Last Thursday the spring, “Student Writers Read,” Series kicked off with the first ever all undergrad session. The series is a continuation of the fall semester’s “Faculty Writers Read” series where faculty were encouraged to publicly share their written stories and poems with the SIUE community.
Writing about the classics is certainly no small task. Reaching deep into classical studies and linking Aesop’s fables with Martin Luther’s 16th century reformation would almost seem monumental. SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences Carl Springer, professor of English language and literature, has succeeded in this task with a book that was published last October […]
An interesting “side note” documentary to the recent theater release of J. Edgar opened recently at a film festival in Germany and an SIUE College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) lecturer helped push the envelope to get the information released.
Edward “Chay” Lemoine, a lecturer in the English language and literature department, wrote his master’s thesis […]
The literary journal of SIUE, Sou’wester, has been publishing for more than 50 years now. Many of those years were under the direction, in one way or another, of Fred Robbins.
Fred Robbins waves his hat as he walks through a pasture with one of his hunting dogs. photo courtesy of Avdoian.
“As many of you know […]
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | EC | ||||
| « Mar |
|
May » |
