The College of Liberal Arts & Education (CLAE) will launch its first research showcase the week of April 15. A steering committee composed of faculty representing the humanities, arts and social sciences and led by Steven Huprich, CLAE associate dean for graduate education, will engage in planning throughout the winter …
Detroit Mercy Theatre Company is proud to present the Michigan premiere of Photograph 51, a captivating and thought-provoking play that tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, the unsung hero of DNA research. Set in the 1950s, the play explores the intense competition between scientists as they race to unravel the …
Detroit Mercy undergraduate students are invited to submit a poem to the Dudley Randall Poetry Prize competition. Each year, the Detroit Mercy English Department honors Dudley Randall, the late poet, publisher and University of Detroit Mercy librarian and poet-in-residence, by sponsoring a poetry competition in his name. Now in …
Detroit Mercy’s Creative Writing Collective (CWC) returns in the new year with its first gathering set for Tuesday, Jan. 16 from 5:15-6:30 p.m., in Briggs Building, Room 205. No writing experience is necessary, just an interest in exploring and developing your creative inclinations. Associate Professor of English Rosemary Weatherston will …
Detroit Mercy’s English Department welcomes back its Triptych series by hosting Srikanth Reddy, author of Facts for Visitors, on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Reddy will read his work virtually followed by audience questions. Interested participants are asked to register beforehand. The Triptych series is hosted by Detroit Mercy’s …
Happy New Year! Welcome to the winter 2024 semester! I hope that you and your families and friends enjoyed the holidays. It is so exciting to welcome our faculty and students back to campus! Open up your calendars to plan on attending some of our outstanding College of Liberal Arts …
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 …
Congratulations to all on such a successful fall 2023 semester! As we look to the new year, let’s take a moment, in the practice of radical hospitality, to consider our past to inform our present and plan for our future. This newsletter captures all three moments and does so using …
