Read about Dr. Sherita Johnson's ENG 400: Civil Rights Literature class last fall.

 Congratulations to this year's Creative Writing award winners! Garth Avant award - Jennifer Brewington; Ben Mounger Rawls award - Annette Boehm; Joan Johnson awards: Kent Quaney and Elena Tomorowitz.

Paige Gray's essay "The 'Not Unmusical Cries' of a 'Peculiar Class' in America: The 'Evolution' of Horatio Alger, Jr.'s Newsboys and Print Journalism in the Late Nineteenth Century" earned this year's James Sims Award for the Best Graduate Student Essay. Congraulations, Paige!

The English Department is sad to announce the passing of Dr. Kenneth Watson, longtime faculty member in the English Department. To leave a comment on Ken's memorial page on Facebook, please click here.

To check out recent English Department faculty publications, please click here. 

• Tuesday, April 16: Open enrollment begins for Fall and Summer classes
• Friday, April 19: Last day to file for summer graduation
• Wednesday, April 24: Last day to withdraw from spring classes
• Friday, May 3: Last day of spring classes
• Friday, May 10: Commencement
• Monday, May 13: Final grades due by 9:00 a.m.
• Tuesday, May 28: Full term and 5WK1 summer classes begin
• Wednesday, June 26: 5WK 2 summer classes begin

Need more dates? View the Academic Calendar. 

Sigma Tau Delta's Big Book Read this semester will be Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Join us for lively discussions of the book the last Tuesday of every month February - April at 5:00 p.m. Next reading with be April 30.

Wednesday, April 17, the Center for Black Studies will host a poetry reading and workshop featuring Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie. The reading is free and open to the public! Click here for more information.

 Study in London this summer!  Click here for details!