Saturday, February, 23, 2013: a group of nearly seventy UM-Flint students and their guests headed south to Ann Arbor, MI, to take in two Shakespeare plays performed by Propeller, an all-male theater company from England. The 2pm performance of Twelfth Night and the 7:30pm Taming of the Shrew were both wonderful examples of how well

            In Love’s Labor’s Lost, an early comedy by William Shakespeare that, like so many of his plays, is peopled with highly literate characters (“bookmen”) and illiterate “clowns” who say of the Latin sprinkled language of their social betters:  “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps.”  Many of Shakespeare’s

MA candidate Jared Morningstar was recently recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) as a 2012 High School Teacher of Excellence. Jared, who teaches language arts at Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy, was one of 12 secondary teachers from around the country to be so honored at the NCTE’s convention in Las

             I am teaching a course in the poetry of Edmund Spenser and John Milton to students at the University of Michigan-Flint.  The course attempts to expose students to the idea that the English literary tradition was built by pens and heads sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions, and having

Qua  will celebrate its Fall 2012 issue on Thursday, December 13th with a launch party at Buckham Gallery. Our contributors will read their work and refreshments will be served. The event begins at 7PM. We hope to see you there!

If you are an English major and a senior, you need to take ENG 400, the capstone seminar.  The department is offering two sections this coming Winter 2013 semester: ENG 400-01, “Research in Creative Writing”  Monday, 5:30-8:15, Prof. Carpenter ENG 400-02, “Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama” Tuesday, 5:30-8:15, Prof. Kietzman There are still seats available in

            I have always loved the early-modern use of the word “mysterie” to denote “a craft, art, trade, or profession.”  It is, in fact, the second definition of the word in the OED where we learn that it began life describing ministerial occupations like the priesthood (Chaucer), matured through use to include all trades—hangman included

Qua, the University of Michigan-Flint’s literary and fine arts journal, is now accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for our Fall 2012 issue. We invite submissions from Flint community members as well as University of Michigan-Flint students. Writers’ Guidelines: Qua accepts submissions of original, previously unpublished fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from University

We have an additional graduate-level literature course for Fall 2012: Dr. Alicia Kent’s ENG 538 – Topics in American Literature since 1900. The seminar, which focuses on Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, will meet with ENG 400 on Wednesdays (4:00-6:45 pm).  Course Description ENG 538 – F12 To register for the course, please contact Dr.

Students in The University of Michigan-Flint’s introduction to creative writing classes will be holding a mobile poetry reading in downtown Flint during the Flint Art Walk on April 13. Entitled “The Poetry Map of Flint”, the event combines a guided tour of downtown Flint with poetry inspired by the city’s buildings and historical sites. The