Professional Writing Students Visit and Write for Salt Creek Sanctuary
“Serene,” “peaceful,” “inspiring,” “humbling.” These are words that students in Dr. Jean Lutz’s capstone Professional Writing class, English 415, used to describe their February, 2013 field trip to a nature sanctuary.
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Faculty Research Receives National and University Grants
Associate Professor Katharine Gillespie has recently been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Five additional English faculty have received support for their projects from Miami's Committee on Research.
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Tobias Menely awarded MLA William Riley Parker Prize
Assistant Professor Tobias Menely has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s annual William Riley Parker Prize for his article “‘The Present Obfuscation’: Cowper’s Task and the Time of Climate Change,” which appeared in the May 2012 issue of PMLA.
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Writing with the Community: ENG 310 Students and the Emery Theatre
Students in Katherine Durack’s ENG 310: Rhetorics of Space and Place reported feelings of awe and wonder after visiting Cincinnati’s historic Emery Theatre for a class project.
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New scholarship to honor English alumna
Carol Neal Levi, a 1957 English Literature alumna who died in 2010, bequeathed over $450,000 to create a scholarship fund for Miami University English undergraduates. The need-based scholarship will be managed by the Office of Student Financial Assistance. Details will be announced soon.
Alumnus and emeritus Donald W. Fritz creates professorship
Donald W. Fritz (’56, M.A. ’59), whose time as a student, professor and staff member at Miami University exceeds five decades, recently chose to honor Miami’s faculty and support disenfranchised or marginalized populations through the creation of the Donald W. Fritz Professorship. Fritz was a long-time professor of medieval British literature, director of the graduate program for the department of English and a former director of The Performing Arts Series at Miami.
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Giving back
The Department of English is grateful to those alumni and friends
who generously support our academic mission.
Gifts large and small are crucial to the Department’s ability to promote the intellectual life of students and faculty. Read more >>