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…
Christine Pivovar (MFA 2013)’s short story “Love in the Time of Communists” appeared in The Southeast Review 33.1 (2015): 64. You can read the story here: http://english.fsu.edu/ser_wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Christine-Pivovar_Love.pdf
UMKC alum Bridgette M. Henry’s first novel, Keeper of the Quilt, has been published as an ebook through Amazon. It is available here.
Alumna and former adjunct instructor, Catherine Browder’s novella, CAFE DEUX MONDES, is now available as an E-Book from Ploughshares Solos (as a Kindle Single) and also an audio book from audible.com.watch movie Regression 2015 now Her new collection, NOW WE CAN ALL GO HOME: 3 NOVELLAS IN HOMAGE TO CHEKHOV, is now available from BkMk…
Dr. Robert Farnsworth recently retitled and revised his biography of Leon M. Jordan. New title: “Police Chief, No, Chief Politician, Yes; The Life of Leon Mercer Jordan and the Shaping Memories of His Father and Grandfather.” The work can now be viewed online at: http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col-collections/jordan/farnsworth-manuscript The Kansas City Council has voted 12-0 to name the campus on which…
Katie Kline’s co-written article “From ELA Teacher to Literacy Expert: Reimagining Our Roles” was recently published in English Journal, Nov. 2014, v.104, no 2.
Professor Michael Pritchett’s story “Adventures with blahblah” appeared in the online literary journal Your Impossible Voice, Number Six/Winter 2014.
UMKC MFA student Lize Jacquinot’s short story “Mr. Goldman” was recently published in the Winter 2015 edition of the journal East Coast Literary Review.
Beyond Realism: Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama Since the Revival, edited by Dr. Joan Dean, was published December 9, 2014 by Brill Press. You can find additional information here: http://www.brill.com/products/book/beyond-realism.streaming movie Your Name.
Andrew Johnson’s essay “On Impunity” was featured on Guernica Daily on November 26th: https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/andrew-johnson-on-impunity/ Andrew’s work also appeared recently in Killing the Buddha (June 18, 2014) and Crazyhorse 85 (Spring 2014). Andrew completed the MFA program in 2013 and is now director of Pilgrim Center in midtown Kansas City.