News
Scholarship winners announced
5/2008
Congratulations to the 2008-2009 Department of English scholarship recipients:
- Terry and Chris Baehr Scholarship
Lisa Dunn - Craver-Overton Scholarship
Whitney Graham - Robert Kettler Memorial Scholarship
Alex Turvey - Bill Moeller Scholarship
Harrison Townsley - Gordon & Mary Wilson Scholarship
Ashley Calhoun
Ellison Hitt
Spotlight on Technical & Scientific Communication programs
8/2007
Miami University has focused on the Technical and Scientific Communication program on its Web site. See the profile on director Jean Lutz and the feature on the program’s Senior Capstone experience.
Latest issue of OxMag now online
5/2007
In this issue:
- An essay by Norman Ball
- Fiction by Andrew Ervin, Thaisa Frank, and M.O. Walsh
- Interviews with Chris Bachelder, Ernest Gaines, and Curtis White
- Poetry by Dan Bourne, Mez Breez; Erich Haught; Rita Kiefer; Ric Royer; and The Sonneteers (new media).
OxMag has some cool new features, including a News/Update section (OxBlog), a links page, and space for readers to post comments on published work—a feature intended to encourage online discussion of writers’ work and the writing process. Check it out at http://community.muohio.edu/oxmag
Administrative Changes in the Department
5/2007
In August, Professor Kerry Powell will assume duties as Acting Chair of the department, Professor Michele Simmons will begin a term as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, and Professor John Tassoni will begin a term as Director of College Composition. Thanks to outgoing Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Professor William Hardesty, and outgoing Director of College Composition, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, for their work on behalf of the department.
Segue Issue 5.2 released
12/2006
The online literary journal of Miami University Middletown is now available, just in time for your holiday reading pleasure.
Breast cancer anthology published
10/2006
Students and faculty in the Creative Writing Program at Miami University-Middletown have published an anthology benefitting breast cancer research.
$10.5 million gift to enhance teaching of writing at Miami
9/2006
Roger and Joyce Howe of Cincinnati have given a $10.5 million gift to the Miami University campaign For Love and Honor designed to make Miami the nation’s best university at teaching undergraduates how to write.
English studies in a digital age
8/2006
Writing has changed dramatically in the last ten years. See how Miami is keeping up.
Professor Kate Ronald receives honors
8/2006
Kate Ronald, Miami’s Roger and Joyce L. Howe Professor of English, has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring. The award was presented at commencement on Friday, August 18.
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Miami graduate Evan Kuhlman discusses his new hybrid novel, Wolf Boy
6/2006
Evan Kuhlman discusses his hybrid debut novel, Wolf Boy in an interview by Steven Paul Lansky, first published in CityBeat.
Wolf Boy is Evan Kuhlman's first novel. A blend of fiction and comics, the work explores the death by car crash of Francis Harrelson, a college student who is on his way to a symposium about mushrooms...
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Four Miami students awarded Fulbright grants
6/2006
Four Miami University students have been awarded Fulbright grants for graduate study and research abroad in the 2006-07 academic year.The students are among more than 1,000 selected from across the country. They include Christopher Michel, a master’s student in English.
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Oxford Magazine // Issue XX
5/2006
Oxford Magazine issue XX is now out! Featuring new writing by Lisa Jarnot, Anne Germanacos, Simon Perchik and more, plus an interview with Esquire editor and MU Alum Adrienne Miller!
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2006 Department of English Awards
5/2006
The Department of English is pleased to announce the 2006 Department of English Awards...
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Segue Issue 5.1
5/2006
We're celebrating our fifth anniversary a little early this year (see below) with new clothes for our web site and a special anniversary issue. Issue 5.1 features new translations by Christopher Kelen of the Tang Dynasty Chinese poet Meng Jiao, an essay by Kelen about his poetry translation project, and highlights from all our past issues. Appearing in mid-May, 2006.
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Kay Sloan receives New Women's Voices Award
5/2006
Kay Sloan, Miami University professor of English, has received the "New Women's Voices" award for her chapbook, The Birds are on Fire. Finishing Line Press, presenter of the award, will publish the poetry book this month.
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Miami graduate wins PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
4/2006
Christopher Coake, who received his M.A. in Fiction from Miami, returned in spring 2005 as the creative writing judge and is now an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, was named the 2006 winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000)
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Morris Young awarded 2006 CCCC Outstanding Book Award
3/2006
The Conference on College Composition and Communication has awarded Professor
Morris Young the 2006 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for his book Minor
Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship...
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GSA Travel Fund Increase
2006
The reimbursement amount for the GSA travel fund has been raised to $300 per student, per academic year. This is effective immediately and is reflected in the new, updated reimbursement forms, now available for download.
James Reiss wins Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award
2005
Linda Hengst, executive director of the Ohioana Library Association, has
announced the recipients of the 2005 Ohioana Awards. "These outstanding
individuals represent the very best of Ohio’s literary, musical and
artistic talent," she said. "We are proud to have the opportunity
to honor them in this way..."
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Stefanie Dunning wins Joe Weixmann Award
2005
Professor Stefanie Dunning's essay “‘Ironic Soil’: Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalisms,” published in African American Review 39.1-2, has been selected as the first winner of the Joe Weixlmann Award for the Year's Best Essay in 20th-Century African American Literature in African American Review.
Summer Scholars
We are pleased to announce the Undergraduate Summer Scholars for 2005,
as well as the English majors who are among the new Members-in-Course elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Coffee 101
1/2005
by Pam Marks
reprinted courtesy of the Cincinnati Enquirer
OXFORD - They're unlikely entrepreneurs, not just because they're students but also because they're literature majors.
Yet when Miami University seniors Liz Snyder and Nicole Ayres opened Kofenya in September, they had what they
thought was a strong business plan: creation of a place that matches students' tendency to hang out with their
need for caffeine.
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Tim Melley receives CAS Outstanding Professor Award
2004
Professor Tim Melley has won the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Professor Award.
Eric Goodman wins Book of the Year Award for Child of My Right Hand
2004
Professor Eric
Goodman's novel, Child of My Right Hand, won ForeWord Magazine's
2004 Silver Book of the Year Award for Gay/Lesbian Fiction...
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Jeff Sommers receives E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award
2004
Jeff Sommers, professor
of English at Miami Middletown, was named a recipient of the E. Phillips
Knox Teaching Award at the university's Dec. 17 commencement...
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