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The office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs has announced the recipients of the 2012 Senior Standout Award, among whom are featured three English majors: Timothy Chapman, Kayla Hays, and Erin Sbarbati. Congratulations! Congratulations are also due to Prof. Jessica DeSpain, winner of one of SIUE's 2012 Teaching Distinction Awards; read about Prof. DeSpain in This Week in CAS. Join us on May 25 in East St. Louis for DA-DUM-DUN: Homage to Miles, Dumas & Dunham Combines with Book Release Party for Drumvoices Revu" An annual multi-arts festival in honor of three world-class creative geniuses whose expressions influenced — and were profoundly influenced by — East St. Louis (Illinois) will be held on Friday, May 25, at 6:00 p.m., in Room 2083-84 of Bldg. B on the SIUE-ESL Higher Education Campus, 601 J.R. Thompson Dr., East St. Louis. Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 course descriptions are now online. Already thinking of summer? If so, make plans now to enroll your child in the Dept of English Writing Camp. Sessions tend to fill up — indeed, the July camp for all grades is now full — so don't delay. Here's all the info you'll need. This Week in CAS has been kept busy profiling recent achievements by English Department faculty: check out the articles on the Faculty Writers Read series, created and overseen by our own Prof. Stacey Brown; on the collection of "persona poetry" co-edited by Professor Brown; on Prof. Howard Rambsy's recent book, The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry; on Chay Lemoine and his work on Nobel-Prize-winning Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness and his running afoul of J. Edgar Hoover; and on the many contributions by the late Prof. Fred Robbins to our journal Sou'wester. Get Paid for Writing Poems! Hard to believe? Then check out this business model as described in "How Do You Price a Poem?" by Kavita Kumar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. New Advising and Mentoring Procedures are in place in the College of Arts and Sciences, so if you're an English major or English Minor, this means you! Find out who your advisor (in the CAS advising office ) and your mentor (English Dept. faculty) are with this handy guide.
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A number of English faculty have been featured on the College of Arts and Science's radio show "Segue" and in the Edwardsville Intelligencer's weekly "College Talk" column. Check out the audio interviews and/or the columns featuring the following:
Matthew S. S. Johnson on student writing and the value of simple questions: Jessica DeSpain on the intersection of literature and information technology: Larry LaFond on language, translation, and dialects: Candice Love Jackson on African-American cultural history and the teaching of life: Sharon James McGee on language, writing, and communication that reaches hearts and minds: Adrian Matejka on poetry, subversion, and race: Catherine Seltzer on Southern literature and novelist Pat Conroy: Kristine Hildebrandt on disappearing languages and dialectical difference: Carl Springer on the link between paganism and Christianity, to say nothing of Latin:  |
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