After reading UMKC Today’s “7 Tips for the Year Ahead,” we were inspired to share ways for our English majors and minors to follow their advice: Be Proactive: Join Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society; submit your writing to Number One Magazine Take Advantage of the Resources around You: Visit with an English Department advisor during…
Rigoberto Gonzalez Visits UMKC During Literature for Life Week
“Butterflies, my lover calls it, the art he places on my back. He locks his lips on each shoulder blade and sucks the skin, leaving deep red, almost purple hickeys that he says resemble wings. One butterfly on the left side and one on the right, and then he works his way down to the…
Ingram to Attend Missouri State University
Sydney Ingram will be attending Missouri State University for a Masters in Literature in the Fall of 2014. She will be graduating with honors (Magna Cum Laude) from the English Department at UMKC. Sydney has received a SEARCH Grant for her research on the Beat Generation which allowed her to travel to San Francisco. She will…
Lockhart to attend University of Tennessee – Knoxville MFA Program
Paige Lockhart (BA 2014) will attend the MFA program at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Her poem, “Jenny Lee” was published in Weave Magazine (10).
Three Undergraduates Publish in LUCERNA
The Department of English congratulates three undergraduate English majors for their publications in the 2013 issue of LUCERNA (8.1), UMKC’s Honors journal: Kristen Allred: “The Literary Achievements of Alice Lloyd Pitts: Assumptions of Power through Rhetorical Identity Constructions” Alex Poppen: “Evoking Emotion: The Visual Rhetoric of World War II Propaganda” Lorraine Sands: “Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and…
Department Honors
We are delighted to announce the following undergraduate students in English who will receive Department Honors. These students have achieved a minimum of 3.8 GPA in the major at UMKC and will receive honor cards to commemorate their achievement at graduation. Congratulations to you all! Lindsay Adams Roseanna Brooks Patricia Clark Rachael Coulter Stephen Ewens…