Category: English & Philosophy

In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!   What is your major and minor/certificate and what made you choose that major/minor? My major is in…

In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!                  What is your major and minor/certificate, and what made you…

In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!     What is your major and minor/certificate and what made you choose that major/minor? I am graduating with…

Every year the MFA program invites several prestigious writers to campus, where they lead workshops of student work and give readings to the broader community. Here are the writers we got to work with for the academic school year of 2022-23: Peter Markus Peter Markus is the author of several books, the most recent of…

Senior Lecturer Kathy Rowley co-published the article Flip This Class: Maximizing Student Learning in Information Literacy Skills in the Composition Classroom Through Instructor and Librarian Collaboration with Justin Otto and Qing Stellwagen in the Journal of Library Administration in August 2022. The following is an abstract of the article: “Library research instruction is most effective in First-Year Writing…

Every year the MFA program invites several prestigious writers to campus, where they lead workshops of student work and give readings to the broader community. Here are the writers we got to work with for the academic school year of 2021-22: Phong Nguyen Phong Nguyen is a writer of historical fiction (Bronze Drum), experimental fiction (Roundabout), literary spinoffs…

MFA alum, Kathryn Smith’s second full-length poetry collection Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, was the winner of the Copper Nickel Jake Adam York Prize. It was published by Milkweed Editions in early 2021.            

Shawn Vestal, alum and visiting writer/professor at Eastern, received the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for his short story collection Godforsaken Idaho. The award was announced in September of 2014 by the PEN American Center and he received the prize from Louise Erdrich at a ceremony at the New School.    …

In the midst of the pandemic, the MFA program worked to ensure that they continued offering their Visiting Writers Series by moving online. The writers for the academic school year of 2020-2023 were: Amy Tan Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her best-known work is “The Joy Luck Club”, which…

Reagan Henderson “Make me Care!: Creating Digital Narratives in the Composition Classroom” an essay in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies Christopher Howell  “The Persona Poem,” workshop given at Litfuse on September 29th The Grief of a Happy Life published by University of Washington Press Jonathan Johnson The Desk on the Sea published by Wayne State University Press…