Allison Funk has explored the notion of what it means to be beyond ordinary, but rather wondrous in her book of poems titled, "Wonder Rooms." Photo by Theresa San Luis.
English professor Allison Funk ruminates on the worlds of wonder rooms through her poetry.
Her fifth book, titled, “Wonder Rooms” was recently released and published by Parlor […]
Michael Datcher, a New York and Los Angeles Times Bestselling author, will read from his new novel, “Americus” Monday, Feb. 16, at 12:30 p.m. in The Friends Room of the Lovejoy Library. The book depicts East St. Louis from a historical perspective.
Michael Datcher photo courtesy of Redmond
According to SIUE Emeritus professor Eugene B. Redmond, who […]
Selected submissions published in the River Bluff Review will be read Jan. 28th at the MUC Bookstore. Cover photo by Adam Mason. Image Courtesy of Vogrin.
In a literary editing course where students select poems, stories and artwork for publication, they gain essential real world experience according to English professor Valerie Vogrin.
Last fall, 18 students started […]
English professor Howard Rambsy
Faculty members of the English department, professors Howard Rambsy, Tisha Brooks and Elizabeth Cali, are project collaborators in an Illinois Humanities Council grant program.
The project, titled “The Illinois Poetry Correspondence Program,” will involve roughly 30 high school students from various parts of the state in reading, writing and correspondence activities related to poetry. The program is […]
Pictured above are English professor and IRIS Co-Director Kristine Hildebrandt, senior Alex Taitt and Anthropology professor Cory Willmott. Photo courtesy of Willmott.
Senior anthropology and computer science major Alex Taitt has received a National Science Foundation grant to preserve the language and culture of the Anishinaabe peoples through computer databases.
Taitt said she is looking forward to […]
Two English faculty members presented their works which addressed issues related to sexual exploitation at the Faculty Writers Read last Thursday.
English professor Ising recites his short stories at the Faculty Writers Read at the MUC. Photo by Theresa San Luis.
English instructor Daniel Ising read two short stories or pieces of fiction writing while English professor […]
Middle school students in East St. Louis will experience a technologically rich learning environment through an SIUE program.
Sharon Locke, STEM Center director, Jessica DeSpain, English professor and IRIS center director and Liza Cummings, professor of curriculum and instruction collaborated to receive an ITEST grant from the National Science Foundation.
SIUE received an Innovative Technology Experiences for […]
English professor Jessica DeSpain is set to release her book, “Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book,” September 25th through Ashgate Publishing. Photo courtesy of Howard Ash.
With no copyright law between Britain and the U.S., reprints were multiplicitous and even promiscuous during the period of 1840-1891.
At least according to English professor Jessica DeSpain in her […]
English professor Helena Gurfinkel released her book “Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy” in the spring.
English professor Helena Gurfinkel published her first book with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in the spring. “Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy” is based on her research. Photo credit: Denise MacDonald
Her first […]
Papers on Language and Literature (PLL), SIUE’s scholarly journal, will commemorate 50 years of publication with a double issue due out this fall.
Papers on Language and Literature, SIUE's academic literary journal, will honor its 50th year of publication with a double issue in fall 2014. Photo courtesy of Helena Gurfinkel
Helena Gurfinkel, PLL editor and English […]
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