Celebrating Student Scholars in the Department

From Dr. McMahon: 

Please congratulate and encourage the following students who have either had their work accepted for presentation at a conference, or have it under consideration! I’m sure they’d enjoy talking with you about their projects.

Emily Angell (graduate student), Native American Symposium

Casi Brintle, Native American Symposium

Ashley Gregory, UCO Language and Linguistics Conference

Carly Heitland, UCO Language and Linguistics Conference

Ginger Johnson, UCO Language and Linguistics Conference

Lauren Jolly, UCO Language and Linguistics Conference

Abby Nance, UCO Language and Linguistics Conference

Avery Stevens, UCO Language and Linguistics Conference

Hannah Howard, applied to present at NCUR (will not hear until January).

ALSO: Several English majors attended and participated as volunteers at the Oklahoma Humanities Council's 2nd Annual Curiosity Festival at the OCU College of Law this Saturday, October 5th. These students were Hanna Barnhart, Mitchell Potts, Avery Stevens, and Megan Green. 

Events Next Week: Originals Reading and Antony and Cleopatra!

Be sure to catch these very important events this week, all sponsored by the English department:

ORIGINALS READING: Student Reading of Original Work this Thursday, Oct. 10, at 3:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Linscheid Library. 

Students--bring a poem, short story, novel or script to the reading and share a portion of it with us! 

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA: ECU SCREENS continues its fall season with William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center. The recorded live stage production is open to the public. General admission tickets are $10 each; tickets for ECU students are $5.

The runtime is 3 hours and 40 minutes and includes an intermission, when audience members will be served free ice cream. The production has a BBFC rating of 12A, the equivalent of PG-13 in the U.S.

Oklahoma Humanities Council's Curiosity Fest Needs Volunteers! This Saturday!

Oklahoma Humanities Council's Second Annual Curiosity Fest is looking for volunteers to help greet guests, monitor sessions, and do general behind-the-scenes help this Saturday, October 5th at the OCU School of Law! 

What's the Curiosity Fest? Basically, it's a series of sessions where local scholars and experts give talks on a variety of subjects around a given theme; this year's theme is "Civility," and the themes range from Arabic Literature to Science Fiction to Socialism in Oklahoma. Volunteers can attend the sessions for free, and contribute to a great arts event in Oklahoma, one that is very well attended and is a great place to meet people and learn new ideas. Many professors from universities around the state will be presenting, and even Dr. Joshua Grasso (yours truly) will be presenting on The Importance of Speculative Literature (a very civil way to discuss the pressing issues of our day!). 

The volunteer sign-up form is here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f4eaca92ea1fc1-curiosity

For more information about the sessions, click here: https://okhumanities.org/curiosityfest

Let me (Dr. Joshua Grasso) know if you have any questions about the event. I went last year and it was well worth the trip up to Oklahoma City. 

Submissions to Originals Now Open!

Remember to submit your best poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or anything in-between to ECU's celebrated creative writing journal, Originals, by October 25th. E-mail all submissions to Dr. Mark Walling at mwalling@ecok.edu. If you want to read previous editions of the journal, you can read most of them on-line here: https://linscheidlibrary.wixsite.com/ecuoriginals?fbclid=IwAR3xjG9XSxxl70t1QZemYdJ6GveK8WgkcjX8WZt7DiSdqCvkS6WpNwp4FHQ

Happy Submitting!

ECU Writer's Club Meeting, Next Thursday @2:00 in HM 333

From Dr. Mark Walling:

We had a tremendous turnout for our first meeting of the Writers Club. I was shocked and delighted. Since that meeting, several students who were unable to attend have emailed me about it. 

Our next meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 3 at 2:00 p.m. in Horace Mann 333. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Grasso who will discuss publication opportunities in Science Fiction and Fantasy. We will also discuss other items of concern to the club. 

Thanks to all who came! Please share the news of our next meeting with your friends and neighbors. The club requires no dues or obligations.  

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