Prof. Melinda Reichelt reports that on Friday, March 20, a workshop hosted at UT entitled “Coding Qualitative Data in Applied Linguistics” took place. Eight MA-ESL students participated in the event (Doria, Hill, Liao, Myers,Vimuttipong, Wherley, Wolfel, and Zhou). The workshop was facilitated by UT English Professor Melinda Reichelt and Colleen Brice, Associate Professor [...]

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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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admin on March 24th, 2009

4:00 PM Friday, March 27, Memorial Field House 2100

This year’s annual Summer’s Lecture speaker is Michael Bérubé.  The event is free and open to the public. For information, call the University of Toledo Department of English at 419-530-2318.
Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

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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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aedgington on March 18th, 2009

Congratulations to all the Shapiro Revision Contest Winners.
Our thanks to Deborah Coulter-Harris for organizing and advertising this year’s event and our congratulations to her on another successful contest.
2009 Shapiro Revision Contest Winners

1st Place: Amanda Pinnow
2nd Place: Phillip C. Vine
3rd Place: Kyle J. Wetzel
4th Place: Seth Oberst
5th Place: Andrew J. Mueser
6th through 15th Place [...]

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On April 17, Linda Bergmann, Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, will be presenting a workshop for our Writing Across the Curriculum and Composition faculty, focusing on how students transfer-or don’t-what they learn in their composition courses to their upper division and WAC courses. This workshop is generously funded by a grant from the [...]

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