The work of fiction writer Jane Bradley is highlighted in UT News on-line for November 16, 2009:
Do you remember the notorious 2007 Mother’s Day brawl at Toledo’s Golden Corral restaurant? Jane Bradley does; she made it the basis for the title story in her new collection of short fiction, Are We Lucky Yet?
The article by [...]
Continue reading about Jane Bradley’s Work Highlighted in UT News — Launch Party Nov. 18
Prof. Douglas W. Coleman, Jack Crist, and Kelley Wherley presented a paper, “Controlling Input for Learner Success,” at the Ohio TESOL 2009 Annual Conference in conjunction with the Lau Resource Center, which was held October 30-31 in Columbus Ohio. Their paper described the results of an experiment which compared three different types of input [...]
Ty Roth, who graduated with an MA in Literature in 2005 while teaching high school full time in Port Clinton, Ohio, has just signed a two-book deal with Delecorte, a Random House imprint, based on their acquisition of his first novel, So Shelly. According to the official announcement at Publishers Weekly, So Shelly “transposes Romantic [...]
Continue reading about MA-Literature graduate signs two-novel deal with Delacorte
Michael Piotrowski, English Department Senior Lecturer, received a third place award in the Adult 2-D division of the UT Lake Erie Center 2009 Art Contest for his watercolor painting, “Washed Ashore.” Entries were expected to reflect the theme of “Nature on Maumee Bay.”
His painting illustrates a number of items you can find washed up on [...]
Continue reading about Michael Piotrowski Receives Award in LEC 2009 Art Contest
Professor Douglas W. Coleman recently presented two papers at the August 4-8 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS), which was sponsored by Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. On one paper, “Lies and Lying in Hard-science Linguistics,” he was a co-author with Bernard Sypniewski (Rowan University), [...]
Continue reading about Douglas Coleman Presenter at LACUS 2009 Conference
Monica Hiser is a student in the University Honors Program, and will receive two degrees this May, one in English General Literature and one from the College of Education in Adolescent Education. She has been the recipient of the UTTower Excellence Scholarship, the English Department’s Shapiro Senior Scholarship, and the Michigan Merit Award.
She has been [...]
Continue reading about Outstanding Student 2009: Monica Hiser
Welcome to the the on-line newsletter of the English Department of the University of Toledo!
We have revived an old tradition of having a newsletter to help our faculty, staff, students, alumni and any other interested individuals keep up to date on what’s happening in the Department of English Language and Literature — but we’ve adopted [...]