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February 16, 2012: 2012 Wmu Directors' Festival, Department Of English Feb 2012

February 16, 2012: 2012 Wmu Directors' Festival, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


February 15, 2012: Comparative Drama Essay Wins Award, Department Of English Feb 2012

February 15, 2012: Comparative Drama Essay Wins Award, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


February 14, 2012: Grad Conference Deadline ~ U Of M Ecgs/Ncf, Department Of English Feb 2012

February 14, 2012: Grad Conference Deadline ~ U Of M Ecgs/Ncf, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


(Re)Incorporating Poetry Into The Secondary English Curriculum, Bethany L. Riggs Feb 2012

(Re)Incorporating Poetry Into The Secondary English Curriculum, Bethany L. Riggs

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This essay and unit plan examine and defend the teaching of poetry in high school English courses as a vital, practical, and major component of a curriculum. The instruction of poetry in public schools is strictly limited today, yet students gain skills through humanities classes that cannot be learned through other courses, such as critical thinking, self-expression, and analyzing abilities. These skills are translatable to additional subjects as well, including composing music, interpreting languages, evaluating arguments, solving problems, drawing conclusions, and understanding difficult concepts. How poetry is taught must also be examined, with regards to specific strategies, structural guidelines, and …


On Edge, A Gift Passed On, Willard Marwitz Feb 2012

On Edge, A Gift Passed On, Willard Marwitz

Headwaters

No abstract provided.


A Hobby, Daylight Saving Time, Sandy Bot-Miller Feb 2012

A Hobby, Daylight Saving Time, Sandy Bot-Miller

Headwaters

No abstract provided.


The Love Song Of J. Lender Truetown, Steven W. Thomas Feb 2012

The Love Song Of J. Lender Truetown, Steven W. Thomas

Headwaters

No abstract provided.


Short Story: "The Honest Village", Sophia Geng Feb 2012

Short Story: "The Honest Village", Sophia Geng

Headwaters

No abstract provided.


February 10, 2012: 8 Students To Present In New Orleans, Department Of English Feb 2012

February 10, 2012: 8 Students To Present In New Orleans, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


February 8, 2012: Paul Johnston Upcoming Presentations, Department Of English Feb 2012

February 8, 2012: Paul Johnston Upcoming Presentations, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


February 7, 2012: Webb Gives Keynote Lecture - 2/9 @ 7pm, Department Of English Feb 2012

February 7, 2012: Webb Gives Keynote Lecture - 2/9 @ 7pm, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


February 6, 2012: Mlive Speaks With Dr. Feffer., Department Of English Feb 2012

February 6, 2012: Mlive Speaks With Dr. Feffer., Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


Does Mooch The Cat Speak French?, Frank Bramlett Feb 2012

Does Mooch The Cat Speak French?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

In the 1990s, I lived in Athens, Georgia, where I was a doctoral student in linguistics. I read the newspaper almost every day, and I started reading a comic strip called Mutts, by Patrick McDonnell. I loved the strip — the sweetness and good intentions of the dog, Earl, was paired with the slightly self-centered cat, Mooch, who also happened to be not quite as smart as Earl in many ways. These two characters are neighbors who live in an urban area that is best characterized as a city in the northeastern United States.

In the series that this …


Pynchon, Genealogy, History: Against The Day, David Cowart Feb 2012

Pynchon, Genealogy, History: Against The Day, David Cowart

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Three Mathematical Lyrics, Lawrence M. Lesser Jan 2012

Three Mathematical Lyrics, Lawrence M. Lesser

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The author shares three mathematical lyrics, debuted at opening banquets of MathFest, the summer national meetings of the Mathematical Association of America.


Imaginary You, Joshua A. Ware Jan 2012

Imaginary You, Joshua A. Ware

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Imaginary You is a multi-genre collection subdivided into three sections: “Impossible Motels,” “Imaginary Portraits,” and “Writing through Nightwood.” One of the manuscript’s main concerns is the exploration of an in-between space formed by the conflation of real and imagined experience. More specifically, the writing puts pressure on Wallace Stevens’ aphorisms, as stated in his Adagia, that “In poetry at least the imagination must not detach itself from reality,” and “The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a …


Transgender Transitions: Sex/Gender Binaries In The Digital Age, Kay Siebler Jan 2012

Transgender Transitions: Sex/Gender Binaries In The Digital Age, Kay Siebler

English Faculty Publications

Contemporary representations of transgendered people often reinforce rigid gender binaries of masculinity and femininity, leading transgendered individuals to feel they must seek out hormones or surgery to “correctly align” their bodies with their gender. Cultural texts (e.g., films, television, Internet, digital texts) reinforce this “pre-op or post-op” ideology for trans identity. The pre-op or post-op MTF or FTM binary mandates an alignment with the heterosexual gender system (feminine female or masculine male). In this article, the author focuses on trans identities and how representations codify the need or desire for surgery and hormones and examines the paradoxical reification of gender …


January 29, 2012: New Issues Authors Kevin Fenton And Rachel Eliza Griffiths Read Their Work: Spring 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 29, 2012: New Issues Authors Kevin Fenton And Rachel Eliza Griffiths Read Their Work: Spring 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 27, 2012: Gender, Sexuality & Language @ Um, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 27, 2012: Gender, Sexuality & Language @ Um, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 26, 2012: Witschi's American West A Choice Outstanding Title, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 26, 2012: Witschi's American West A Choice Outstanding Title, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 25, 2012: Russo On The Once And Future (Medieval) Classroom, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 25, 2012: Russo On The Once And Future (Medieval) Classroom, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 24, 2012: Third Coast 2011 Fiction Contest Winner Chosen For Anthology, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 24, 2012: Third Coast 2011 Fiction Contest Winner Chosen For Anthology, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


On The Move: Games And Gaming Figures In Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Douglas Anthony Guerra Jan 2012

On The Move: Games And Gaming Figures In Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Douglas Anthony Guerra

Dissertations (1 year embargo)

In this dissertation, I analyze the way that gameplay, considered broadly, both facilitated and informed representations of agency in the nineteenth century. In effect, games were archives of possibility made procedurally discrete, rendering modes of action and agency legible in ways that are suggested, although differently engaged, in their somewhat less ephemeral cousins: books. Understanding that both games and books emerged from within similar fields of cultural production and often marketed themselves to the same audiences, I argue that taking a technical and materially historical approach to games helps us to explore major literary works of the period to startlingly …


January 22, 2012: Sex Of Men In Premodern Europe Event--U Mich, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 22, 2012: Sex Of Men In Premodern Europe Event--U Mich, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 20, 2012: Chaucer Among The Danes, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 20, 2012: Chaucer Among The Danes, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 19, 2012: Nagle On L.E.L., Department Of English Jan 2012

January 19, 2012: Nagle On L.E.L., Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 17, 2012: Utz To Serve As External Reviewer, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 17, 2012: Utz To Serve As External Reviewer, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 16, 2012: Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 16, 2012: Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 16, 2012: Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd, Department Of English Jan 2012

January 16, 2012: Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


Eng 1001g-010: Composition And Language, Leann Athey Jan 2012

Eng 1001g-010: Composition And Language, Leann Athey

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.