Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina was awarded an honorable mention honor for the 1921 Prize in American Literature for his essay, “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality.” “I’m grateful and wowed that my essay on Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ received an honorable mention …
Associate Professor and Department of English Chair Mary-Catherine Harrison published “Faculty Formation in the Jesuit and Mercy Traditions” in the latest issue of Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal. Co-written with colleagues Arthur Ko, associate professor in the College of Health Professions, and Jill Turner, library professor in the Detroit Mercy …
Detroit Mercy’s Rx for Reading Detroit has distributed more than 220,000 books to low-income children and families in Metro Detroit, since 2014. That’s more than two books for every young child in the city of Detroit. Now through the new year, donations will be matched twice by two loyal Rx …
Isaac Pickell, adjunct instructor of English, published a new collection of poetry with Black Ocean press, It’s Not Over Once You Figure It Out.
English department faculty and students, along with CLAE Dean Jocelyn Boryczka and Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Director Mike Verdusco, celebrated the installation of the new Detroit Mercy Creative Arts kiosk. The kiosk, which was the vision of the university’s poet-in-residence, Dr. Stacy Gnall, will showcase creative …
Michael Lauchlan, senior adjunct instructor of English, recently published poetry in Tar River Poetry, Rappahannock Review, New World Writing, The Bangalore Review, Split Rock Review, So Flo Po Jo, The Lincoln Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Indianapolis Review, J Journal, and Under a Warm Green Linden.
Senior Adjunct Instructor of English Susan Trudeau was appointed to the NASPA-Florida Executive Board and NASPA Region III Board. NASPA-Florida is the state connection for NASPA members. NASPA, Student Affairs in Higher Administration, is a member-centered association supporting a diverse and passionate network of 15,000 professionals and 1,200 institutions across …
Poet-in-residence Stacy Gnall was a speaker at the 2023 Lit Youngstown Festival this October as part of the panel “Poetry of Witness” with poets Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Jessica Cuello and Jennifer Martelli. Gnall read new poems from her third book project, The Danger Constellation, which combines poetry with moments of lyric …
Erin Bell, adjunct instructor of English and assistant director of Educational Development at Detroit Mercy’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, presented two projects this fall: “Us Weirdos Have to Stick Together”: Queering the Family in Disney’s Owl House at the Northeastern Popular Culture Association conference. Podcasting as a …
Senior Adjunct Instructor of English Molly Barlow‘s personal essay, “Changing pronouns behind the lectern” was published online in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education. Read the full essay.
