English Department

at the University of Michigan-Flint

New: Earn a TESOL Certificate!

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This fall the Linguistics Program will begin offering a new 15-hour certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.  Now you can earn this valuable and highly portable credential right here at UM-Flint, and in only four classes!  

Professor Emily Feuerherm has co-edited a new book!

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Congratulations to our colleague on an important publication!  This volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss how language is used by, for and about refugees in the United States in order to deepen our understanding of what ‘refugee’ and ‘resettlement’ mean. The book will be of interest to researchers of applied linguistics and

Call for Papers: Clement S. Stacy Undergraduate Research Conference

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The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences of Purdue University Calumet is pleased to announce the 24th Annual Clement S. Stacy Memorial Undergraduate Research Conference, which will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, 2016 at Courtyard Marriott Hotel, near the campus in Hammond Indiana. The conference’s goal is to provide a forum

Enter the Mochila Review’s MoRe Prize Writing Contest

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The Mochila Review, a national undergraduate literary journal published by Missouri Western State University, is hosting its annual writers’ contest for undergraduate students, called the Undergraduate MoRe Prize. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES This year, the contest will be open to short fiction (up to 3,000 words) submissions only. Contest submissions will be accepted through the journal’s website

Undergraduate Gender Studies Conference – Call for Papers

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Midwest Undergraduate Conference in Gender Studies – call for papers The University of Notre Dame will host an undergraduate conference for Gender Studies on February 12 & 13, 2016 on Notre Dame’s campus in South Bend, Indiana. The conference will be co-sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College and

English Majors: The Albion Review wants to see your writing

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The Albion Review, a national literary journal based at Albion College, seeks work for its 11th annual journal.  Contributors must currently be enrolled as undergraduate students at any college or university. Submit your short fiction, poetry, essays, or visual art by November 1st – you could win a $200 prize. Written submissions (include SASE): The

English Majors – Why not present your work at a conference?

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The 24th Annual Clement S. Stacy Memorial Undergraduate Research Conference (sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Purdue University-Calumet) will take place Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, 2016 at the Hammond, IN Courtyard Marriott Hotel. The conference’s goal is to provide a forum for undergraduate Humanities and Social Sciences scholars from

Summer Reading 2015 – A Whale of a List!

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For the last couple of years, Who Are These People Anyway? has been happy to share summer reading plans with you: what we’re reading, what we think you should read, and how we did with last year’s resolutions.  Here’s the 2015 installment; just peruse the WATPA? archive if you want to read the older ones.

Our alum Bryon Quertermous Hits the Big Time!

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Congratulations to UM-Flint English Department alum Bryon Quertermous, who is getting a lot of praise for his new novel Murder Boy.  From the Amazon summary: Dominick Prince is out of options. He’s lived in Detroit long enough to use his experiences of crime and poverty to fuel his writing, but he’s ready to move on