Class Dates

• Intersession: December 11th-19th & January 4th - 12th 
• Full Term: January 16th - May4th
• First Eight Week (8W1): January 16th - 
• Second Eight Week (8W2): March 19th - May 4th

Last Day to add/drop without Academic/Financial Penalty

• Intersession: Dec 12th 
• Full Term: Jan 23rd
• First Eight Week (8W1): Jan 18th
• Second Eight Week (8W2): Mar 21st

Last day to receive 100% refund

• Intersession: Dec 12th 
• Full Term: Jan 23rd
• First Eight Week (8W1): Jan 18th
• Second Eight Week (8W2): Mar 21st

Last day to drop classes without instructor permission

• Intersession: Dec 12th 
• Full Term: Jan 23rd
• First Eight Week (8W1): Jan 18th
• Second Eight Week (8W2): Mar 21st

All approved drops will result in grade of “W” within these dates

• Instersession: December 13th - January 5th
• Full Term: January 24th - April 5th
• First Eight Week (8W1): January 19th - February 21st
• Second Eight Week (8W2): March 22nd - April 20th 

Last day to make and add/drop course request or withdraw from the University and receive a grade of “W”

• Intersession: Jan 5th
• Full Term: Apr 5th
• First Eight Week (8W1): Feb 21st
• Second Eight Week (8W2): Apr 20th 

Final Exams

• Full Term: May 7th - May 10th
• First Eight Week (8W1): Last day of class
• Second Eight Week (8W2): May 7th - May 10th 

After the last day to withdraw from the University, students are academically obligated and will receive a grade for all enrolled courses.

• Robin Atwood, Director of South Mississippi Writing Project, winner of the 2017-2018 Arts & Letters Staff Person of the Year Award.
  
• Dr. Angela Ball, selected to receive the 2018 University Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Bryana Fern, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Ben Mounger Rawls Award for Excellence in Creative Writing.
• Todd Osborne, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Joan Johnson Award in Poetry.
• Karla Keffer, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Joan Johnson Award in Fiction.
• Matthew Schmidt, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Garth Avant Award for Poetry. 
• John Duncan, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Garth Avant Award for Fiction.
• Jonathan Riccio, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Jeremy Lespi Award for Poetry.
• Anastasia Stelse, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Inaugural Miranda Merklein Award for Graduating Poet. 
• Andrew Gretes, PhD Creative Writing candidate, awarded the Inaugural Miranda Merklein Award for Graduating Fiction Writer. 
• Dr. Rebecca Powell, received the Butch Oustalet Distinguished Professorship Service Award, 2018.
• Dr. Christopher Foley, winner of the Faculty Senate Junior Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award, 2018.
• Hunter Joplin, PhD Literature candidate won the James Sims Award for his essay “Sing Along with Monsieur Rey: The Ingenuity of H. A. Rey’s Musical Picturebooks.” 
  
• Crystal Veronie, PhD Literature candidate won the Linwood Orange Award for her essay “‘When Who Can Uncreate Thee Thou Shalt Know’: Divine Violence in Paradise Lost.” 
  
• Karlie Herndon and Crystal Veronie, PhD graduate candidate in Literature were awarded the Howard and Helen Bahr Graduate Research Awards to present papers at conferences. 
  
• Carlton McGrone, undergraduate English major, has been selected to participate in this year’s week-long Rutgers English Diversity Institute, at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, NJ.
  
• Jessica Guzman, PhD Creative Writing candidate, 2018 Graduate Assistant of the Year.
• Hunter Joplin, PhD Literature candidate, recipient of a travel award for Professionals in Preparation (PIP) by the USM Graduate School.
• Chad Foret, PhD Creative Writing candidate, recipient of a scholarship from the Karen M. Yarbrough Graduate Education Scholarship Endowment.
• Nick Rupert, PhD Creative Writing candidate, won the 2018 Creative Writing Emerging Artist award by the Partners for the Arts.
• Crystal Veronie, this year’s winner of the Committee on Services and Resources for Women’s Kathanne Greene Essay Award for her submission, “’When my hands are empty / I will be full’: Rhetorical Erasure and Chrystos’s Not Vanishing”.

• Read about other USM English department majors, faculty and alumni who have Made Their Mark!

The Visiting Writers Series presents

A reading with Elizabeth Poliner, author of the novel As Close to Us as Breathing

January 24^th, 2018

LAB 108; Gonzales Auditorium

2018 Blaine Quarnstrom Playwright Series

for English Graduate Students

January 25^th – 28^th

Ben Jonson's Volpone

Wednesday, March 21^st

4pm – “Original Practices” if the Shakespearean Theatre (Workshop)

5:30pm – “Jonson’s Satire” Pre-performance talk by Dr. Christopher Foley

6:30pm – Performance followed by Q&A

USM Gulf Park Campus

Fleming Education Center Auditorium

Click here to see the event poster.

“An Evening of Music, Art, and Poetry”

March 22^nd at 7:30pm

Gallery of Art and Design

Pre-performance Talk Series presents

Dr. Whitney Martin, Department of English on

Bulrusher

March 25^th at 1pm

The Visiting Writers Series presents

Natalie Shapero, author of the poetry collections Hard Child and No Object

April 11^th

The Visiting Writers Series presents

Nick White, author of the novel How to Survive a Summer

April 20^th

Pre-performance Talk Series presents

Dr. Jameela Lares, Department of English on

Peter and the Starcatcher

April 29^th at 1pm