Bob Bement (UMF 1984-1988) has served the last 21 years as a commissioned officer in the Air Force. He has visited over 35 countries in that time and has been stationed in several foreign lands, to include Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, and Alabama. A career intelligence officer, Bob has reached the rank of lieutenant
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
Hey, Majors – New this Fall: English Career Preparation
ENGLISH CAREER PREPARATION ENG 298: FALL 2013 Special Topics in Writing Course Offering 2:30-3:45 T/R What can you do with an English major? After this class, you will be able to answer this question with confidence. Description: A major in English provides a student with many career possibilities, several of which many not be obvious
Super Shakespeare with Propeller Theater’s All Male Cast
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
Congratulations to Scott Atkinson, New UM-Flint Publications Board Advisor
Congratulations to Scott Atkinson who was recently named to be UM-Flint M-Times Advisor. Scott studied composition and rhetoric in the MAELL program, he worked in the Writing Center, and he served as the editor of Qua before graduating in 2011. Scott works for the Flint Journal as an entertainment reporter and has served on the
Living Learning, A Labor of Love
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
Congratulations, Jared!
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
Teaching the “Ruinaissance” in Flint, Michigan
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
Celly. Gauge. Stronk. These words are amazeballs!
Students in Linguistics 346 – Linguistic Analysis worked on slang dictionary entries this fall semester. Below are their abbreviated entries. Enjoy! amazeballs [əˈmeɪzˌbɔːlz] (adj.): 1. Beyond amazing; something or someone that is so amazing that a regular word could not suffice. (That concert I went to last night was amazeballs.) 2. Superlative used when someone
Qua Launch Party
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!