The Department of English Language and Literature and the Composition Program are delighted to announce the winners of the 2013 Shapiro Essay Revision Contest. There were 132 participants from all college ranks and departments. $500 Bradley Sommer $400 Zachary Dietrich $300 Zachary Feit $200 Anthony Mecurio $100 Audrey Miklovic $75 winners: Jeanette Beerbower; Devin Brown; [...]
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The Mill had their first Open Mic of the semester on October 5, at Ukazoo Used Books. An intimate event, it went well. Mill staff led the readings; with Dave Hartwig, Lindsay Vreeland, and Ryan Duckett (left-to-right, below) reading their poetry and Felicia Preece (seen watching at the far left in the upper photo) reading [...]
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Wai Chee Dimock’s lecture for the English Department’s 2012 Summers Memorial Lecture has been made available as part of WGTE’s Knowledge Stream program. Her lecture found connections between a diverse set of topics, including the epic of Gilgamesh, contemporary poetry and theater, the Iraq War, and the practice of literary criticism. WGTE’s recording of her [...]
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The University of Toledo College of Graduate Studies recognized its largest class of international graduate Fulbright Scholars with a luncheon to celebrate their contributions to campus. Among them was English Department MA Student and Fulbright Scholar, Aso Rasool (second from the left in the photo above). Read the full story at UTNews.
. Cover art photographer Tim Salow . From the Editors of The Mill: The Spring 2012 Launch reading on April 19th was a huge success for the staff and contributors of The Mill. We had more readers and guests than ever before. The winner for Best Poetry contribution was Sam Fetters and for Best Fiction [...]
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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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English Department graduate Matt Szollosi was named one of the two first Outstanding Alumni for the College of Languages, Literature and Social Sciences, along with Jordan Urbanski (Communication). Matt Szollosi received his B. A. in English and later graduated with his J.D. from the UT College of Law. Rep. Szollosi is serving his third term [...]
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The Mill celebrated the completion of its second issue at the Launch Poetry Reading On November 17th, 2011 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in the Memorial Field House, with an evening of fabulous poetry from its second issue and free refreshments. The cover art contest winner was announced: Caitlyn Witt, for her piece “life in [...]
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