The Department of English at the University of Michigan-Flint is seeking a Lecturer I to teach in the Writing Program for the Fall 2014 semester beginning Wednesday, September 3. The lecturer will be expected to teach and hold office hours for two face-to-face courses with the following class schedule: ENG 252 Advanced Composition (MW 2:30-3:45pm)
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New This Fall: Women Mystery Writers!
ENG/WGS 337: Women Mystery Writers Instructor: Jacqueline Zeff W: 4-6:45 p.m. Women have had a complicated relationship with detectives and detective fiction, depicted frequently as victims or femme fatales. But not in their own tales of murder and mayhem. While “horsing around,” women writers of crime fiction dominate the best-seller lists and expand this most
Baker Street Calling . . . Again!
Karen Davis Receives Sterling Staff Award!
English Department Administrative Assistant and CAS Staff Coordinator Karen Davis has been recognized for her excellent work with a Sterling Staff Award. As Karen’s anonymous nominator wrote, “Karen works tirelessly to make CAS a better place to be. She has such institutional knowledge and is the ‘go-to’ person for answers for questions. I admire Karen’s
Baker Street Calling!
ROBERT HAYDEN: A CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE AND POETRY TRIBUTE
NOVEMBER 1, 2013 The Department of English at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor has announced plans for a one-day conference on November 1, 2013 in honor of Robert Hayden, the distinguished poet and educator who received an M.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1944 and returned to teach at the university in 1970
“…utterly a source”: Seamus Heaney, 1939 – 2013
So there we were, a couple of farm kids (him for real, me simply surrounded by farmlands and a one-time professional hay baler) having a giggle over being the only two males in the Harvard Faculty Club at lunchtime not in blue blazers, watching the parade of what appeared to be an endless line of
Howling in the Voice God Gave Me
No one was making me go to church when I returned except, perhaps, John Milton, the English poet, revolutionary, and blind composer of Paradise Lost. I had been an undergrad at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was nearing the end of a Ph.D. at Boston College—another Jesuit school to round off my Catholic
Get Registered!
Hey, students -If you haven’t registered for Fall classes yet, please don’t wait any longer. Cancellation of low-enrolled sections will begin the week of August 18th, so there’s no time to lose.
Who Are These People, Anyway?® curls up with a good book . . . and thinks that you should too.
2012-13 got too busy for us all to find the time to check in with you. But here we are, a few days before “summer” comes to UM-Flint! For this go-round, we asked ourselves what we were most determined to read this summer, and then each suggested a must-read title for you. Below you’ll find