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.
English major Asha Sierra George wrote a recent post titled “How the quiet girl was heard” for Between the Pages, the English department’s blog, about her gratitude for being a writer. Read her reflection.
The Department of English hosted Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Detroit poet Brittany Rogers for an evening of poetry and conversation in October. CLAE students also shared their poetry. Comer, a Detroit Native, is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Triquarterly), awarded …
To kick off an exciting year of literary events on campus, Senior Adjunct Instructor Molly Barlow (fiction), Adjunct Instructor Isaac Pickell (poetry), and Senior Adjunct Instructor Ann Eskridge (musical theater) shared their original creative writing during a September evening event hosted by Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall and Senior Adjunct Instructor Michael …
Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina’s essay “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality” was published in the Summer 2023 issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He also presented a paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and transnationalism at the Modernist …
