Tag: "English Language and Literature"

CAS online courses continue to increase

CAS online courses continue to increase

The College of Arts and Sciences has more than doubled its summer online course offerings since 2010, at which time 24 online courses were offered.
By this summer, 51 classes will be offered. Larry LaFond, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the college has been “at the forefront” of recent increases in […]

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

December’s novel for Year of the Book: Holidays on Ice

December’s novel for the department of English Language and Literature’s Year of the Book is Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris.
Holidays on Ice is a collection of essays about Christmas. The collection includes “SantaLand Diaries,” in which Sedaris gives an account of his experiences working as an elf at Macy’s; “Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol,” […]

postmedieval does it again: ALPSP's Best New Journal of 2012

postmedieval does it again: ALPSP’s Best New Journal of 2012

Fall 2012 cover, Volume 3, Issue 3
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, a scholarly journal co-edited by English Associate Professor Dr. Eileen Joy, won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ (ALPSP) Award for Best New Journal of 2012.
This is the journal’s second award in just two years. In 2011, the journal won […]

Year of the Book begins with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Year of the Book begins with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

As we enter into September, SIUE’s English Language and Literature Department is kicking off its Year of the Book. The program has been initiated to encourage campus-wide reading, discussion, and enlightenment through careful selection of contemporary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by SIUE English Language and Literature faculty.
For every month during the next nine months, the […]

Student Writers Read at SIUE

Student Writers Read

 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.
 

 
 
 
 

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