News and Events 2009-2010
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TREATS AND GAMES IN THE LITERARY LOUNGE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 5 PM
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Curious about internships? All your questions will be answered at the English Internship Information Panel.
Tuesday, November 17, at 11:30 AM
in Old Main 111
PIZZA WILL BE SERVED!
Our panelists are experienced Mac English major interns Anna Joranger, Jeff Henebury, and Tatiana Craine, as well as recent alum Julia Quanrud. Michael Porter, director of the Internship Program, will be on hand to guide you through the internship search and application process, and professor James Dawes will drop in to talk about academic credit. |
A Celebration of Vladimir Nabokov
Join Professor Julia Chadaga and your friends in the English and Russian Departments to watch  a live webcast of "A Celebration of Vladimir Nabokov With Martin Amis, Brian Boyd, Chip Kidd and others" from the 92nd St. Y in New York City. This special, sold-out event is being broadcast to colleges across the country. Visit www.92y.org for all the details. Pizza will be served.
Monday, November 16, 8 pm, in Carnegie 206 |
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The First Annual
Literary Lounge Halloween Party
Wednesday, October 28, 5-7 pm
in the department lounge
SPECIAL PRIZE FOR COSTUME WITH BEST LITERARY REFERENCE
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Career Panel with Macalester English Department Alumni
On Friday, October 23, the Advancement Office and the English Department will be hosting a small, select group of Macalester English Department alumni who graduated some number of years ago and are now at the height of their professional careers. These alumni will be visiting the college as part of the Front Row at Macalester program to reconnect with the department and get to know the new generation of its faculty and students.
All current and perspective English majors are invited to join our visitors at noon for a career panel discussion over lunch in the Old Main 4th Floor Lounge. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to benefit from the advice of English alumni with years of professional experience, and we urge everyone to attend.
Please RSVP to abrailov-at-macalester.edu. |
Terry Krier and her Major British Writers class invite English Department students and faculty to join them and the members of the Rose Ensemble in a medieval music workshop featuring period instruments and material from the ensemble's latest CD.
Tuesday, October 6, 1:20 - 2:50 pm
123 Rehearsal Hall
Music Building |
Department Treat Days are now on Wednesdays! Come and share some good snacks and conversation in the English Department lounge from 5 to 7 pm. |
The English Department Fall Majors' Luncheon will be held on Thursday, September 24, at 11:30 pm, in the Smail Gallery of Olin Rice. We will meet new and visiting faculty members Neil Chudgar, Jon Lurie, David Mura, Andrew Opitz, Ethan Rutherford, and Eric Vrooman, and hear readings by Professors Marlon James and Wang Ping. English majors are encouraged to bring guests who are seriously considering the English major but have not yet declared. |
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 Allison Hedge Coke
Poetry Reading
Monday, Sept. 14th at 7:00 pm
Weyerhaeuser Hall
Allison Hedge Coke, American Book Award winning author of five books and editor of seven collections, is a Weymouth Center, Black Earth Institute, Hawthornden Castle, & Center for Great Plains Fellow. Hedge Coke holds the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and directs the Reynolds Reading Series & Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Tribute Retreat
Sponsored by ACTC and departments of English, Philosophy and ES
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Check out Kristin Naca's mtvU interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa. Komunyakaa selected Naca's book of poems, Bird Eating Bird, for the National Poetry Series mtvU Prize in 2008. The collection will appear this fall with Harper Perennial. |
Jon Lurie's latest article, "Dakota Rising," which explores solutions to the tragedy of the Dakota Nation's exile from Minnesota, appears in this month's issue of Twin Cities Metropolitan Magazine. |
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English major Daniel Soto ('10) reads at the Loft Literary Center as part of a group of emerging Latino writers mentored by Lorena Duarte.
Saturday, August 15, 7 - 9 pm
The Open Book
1011 Washington Ave. So
Minneapolis
See the Loft events calendar for details. |
Applying for graduate school? The Thomas E. Critchett Fund will, within certain limits, reimburse Macalester English majors for expenses involved in the application process as long as they apply within two years after graduation. Application and receipts are due by the end of the spring term of the academic year in which expenses were accrued.
If you are a student, please remember that we can help you out in this way! If you are a faculty member, please remind any recent graduates (for whom you might be writing recommendations) that we can do this. You can read the details and the rules for these reimbursements on The Critchett Fund page of the English Department Web site Student Resources section.
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