Dr. Michelle Boisseau has been named a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, one of the most prestigious awards available in the Arts & Humanities. Dr. Boisseau is currently working on a new book of poems, titled “Inside the Horizon.” You can read about her work here: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/michelle-boisseau/. This is the second faculty member in Creative Writing/English to…
Good News – Four English Students Received a Graduate Assistance Award!
Congratulations to the English graduate students who received an award at the 2017 Graduate Assistance Fund Awards Reception: Stephanie Klein – AAUW of Kansas City Award – Karen and Jolyan Herman Award in Women’s Studies Mariah Marsden – Harriette Yeckel in Honor of Ingrid de Kok – Vivien B. Jennings Award Lindsey Weishar – Esther…
Good News – New Letters Is Presented In Double Feature
New Letters (issue #1, 83rd year) is presented in a rare, double feature today, Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, on the website Poetry Daily. Other writers in this issue include two Pulitzer Prize winners, Yusef Komunyakaa and Carl Dennis, and Janet Burroway, Linda Pastan, Mark Jarman, Major Jackson, Paul Zimmer, Kim Addonizio, and on they go . . . Check out…
Good News – Two Newly-Minted PhD Students!
UMKC English celebrates two newly-minted PhD students: Dr. Linda Dorothy Brown (History/English) Dissertation: “Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman” Dr. L. Michael McCloud (English/History) Dissertation: “The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance” Congratulations Linda and Mickey! film Manchester by the Sea 2016 streaming
Good News – Hadara Bar-Nadav Receives Prestigious Award
National Endowment for the Arts Announces FY 2017 Creative Writing Fellowships Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City among 37 recipients nationwide Kansas City, Missouri— Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Hadara Bar-Nadav is one of 37 writers to receive an FY 2017 individual creative writing fellowships of $25,000. “The NEA has an excellent…
Good News–Dr. Terrell
Congratulation to Professor Whitney Terrell! He has been awarded a Funding For Excellence grant from UMKC, which will provide support for a semester’s leave in Spring 2017. This much-needed time will offer Professor Terrell and opportunity to work on his next novel.
Good News–Dr. Ellinghausen
Congratulations to Dr. Laurie Ellinghausen! The University of Toronto Press has extended a book contract to Dr. Ellinghausen her new work, Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing. It will begin production in early 2017.
Rhonda Cooksey to Present at the American Folklore Society and South Atlantic Modern Language Association
MFA student Rhonda Cooksey presenting two papers at conferences this semester! In October, she will present “Folk Healing Communities in the Ozarks” at the joint meeting of the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. And in November, she will present “Abject Other in 18th Century Eastern European Folklore and Gothic…
Article – Interview Regarding the Shakespeare’s First Folio Experience with Professor Joan Dean
The interview consists explains how the UMKC English department partnered with the Kansas City Public Library to create a unique and engaging experience for the visitors coming to view the rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Professor Joan Dean explains how the new “Shakespeare and The First Folio” class prepared them for the knowledge and…
Ande Davis wins UMKC Community of Scholars contest
On April 23, Ande Davis (IPhD, English/Humanities Consortium) won the UMKC Community of Scholars paper/multimedia presentation contest, which is a university-wide competition. Congratulations!