Reading Party to Celebrate the Release of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
The English Department is hosting a community reading of the first chapter of Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. The celebratory reading party will be held in the English Department’s Cooper Lounge (501 Stabler Hall) on Thursday, September 19th at 12:00 noon.
Cornbread Partners
As part of its Community Partners Initiative, the Department of English has partnered with the Arkansas Cornbread Festival, the Celebrate! Maya Project, The Yarn, the Oxford American, South on Main, and RockCity Eats to host a storytelling contest on the intersections of food, community, and culture in the American south. Download the flyer and spread … Cornbread Partners
Dr. Barrio Attends Teaching Institute, Publishes Book Review, and Becomes ATLE Co-Director
This summer, Dr. Laura Barrio-Vilar attended the Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching and published a book review of Jason Richards’s Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum U.S. Literature. You can read the book review in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 36, no. 1, 2019, pp. 153-55, accessible through … Dr. Barrio Attends Teaching Institute, Publishes Book Review, and Becomes ATLE Co-Director