. On April 10, the University of Toledo Department of English Language and Literature co-sponsored a free, public event with TLCPL as part of the Poetry Speaks @ Your Library series. The event featured renowned poet Thylias Moss. Professor Joel Lipman (UT English), Lucas County Poet Laureate and TLCPL Library Poet-in-Residence, introduced Moss and read [...]
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The Visiting Scholar Committee (Bill Free — Chair, Doug Coleman, Russ Reising, and Skai Stelzer) had lunch last Friday with the Department’s two current Visiting Scholars, both from China. Minxa Wu (left), an associate professor, is an English teacher in the Foreign Languages Department of Henan Polytechnic University. She got her BA in the PLA [...]
A Roundtable was hosted Friday, January 6, 2:00 – 4:30 PM in the UT Field House, English Department Conference Room by the Department of English on the topic “Moving Linguistics Forward as a Science.” Primary speakers included Irina Oukhvanova and Aliona Popova both of Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus) and Bernard Sypniewski of Rowan University [...]
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Lijuan Zhang and Min Wang, who were visiting scholars in the English Department 2008-9, are shown here with Professor Bill Free in this picture taken during their stay with us last academic year. Both are teachers at National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. They recently e-mailed department Chair Sara Lundquist to [...]
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