Assistant Professor of Addiction Studies, Varinder Kaur, and graduate Counseling student, Timothy Martin, co-presented The Role of Civil Disobedience in Competencies for Ethics, Multiculturalism and Social Justice at the annual conference of the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors in Denver, Colorado in October.
In October, Detroit Mercy’s Law Day Fair showed students the multifaceted dimensions of the legal field. Political Science students displayed their legal acumen through a moot court simulation. Students also gained invaluable insight into the dynamic landscape of law with more than 15 law school representatives available to give tips …
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 …
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Patrick Kelly, S.J.‘s new book, Play, Sport and Spirit, is gaining national attention. Kelly’s book, which focuses on the human, cultural and spiritual significance of sport itself, is needed now more than ever, given conference realignments and other changes in the landscape of college sports. …
