English

Reading Party to Celebrate the Release of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

Lashanda Ainsworth — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:31:32 +0000

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.

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Cornbread Partners

J-Lynn Brock — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:34:15 +0000

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, ... Cornbread Partners

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Dr. Barrio Attends Teaching Institute, Publishes Book Review, and Becomes ATLE Co-Director

Teri Kerr — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:48:35 +0000

This summer, Dr. Laura Barrio-Vilar attended the 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 Project Muse and JSTOR. This fall, Dr. Barrio will start implementing the new active-learning techniques she learned in the Summer Institute in the two classes she is teaching: Black Protest Literature and Approaches to Literature.

Starting this fall, Dr. Barrio will be one of the Co-Directors of the Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence, conducting faculty workshops and organizing events to foster excellence in teaching and learning through sharing ideas, collaborating, and building a strong community of engaged teachers and learners.

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