The Department of English Language and Literature and its faculty are actively engaged with the Toledo-area community. Here are some recent examples.
English Department
Annual Summers Lecture with reception, free and open to the public, often preceded by workshops on the topic of the lecture, [...]
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Three English majors were awarded the Block Scholarship in the Humanities for Academic Year 2009-10: Amanda Kaufman, Eric Sobel, and Laura Scroggs.
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We almost missed telling everyone about this Toledo Blade article from back in January about Prof. Joel Lipman, Lucas County’s one and only Poet Laureate. He’s been busy in other ways, too:
Sixteen “Cut Ups from Burroughs” published in The Exquisite Corpse Annual [issue #1, 2009], edited by Andrei Codrescu
[ISSN 1943-6122; ISBN-10 0615228577]. The [...]
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“The Past is Now: Our Contemporaneous Past”
Friday, April 24, 7:30 p.m. in Savage Arena
Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, becoming the first black woman to achieve this honor. She is a native of Lorain, Ohio, born the second of four children [...]
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This, from Jim Ferris, Director, UT Disability Studies Program
Michael Bérubé, the celebrated author of Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child and other books, will hold a discussion at 1 p.m. Friday, March 27, to discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act and the concept of social justice for people [...]
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