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October 14, 2020

COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems

PSU English alumni Cara Cristina Chanoine and Josh Nicolaisen, as well as PSU just-about-to-be-alumnus Griffin Nyhan, and PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl all have poems in a new anthology, COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, edited by NH poet laureate Alexandria Peary. $2 from each copy sold will be donated to the New Hampshire Food Bank.

Alumni/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Students/Teachers

October 13, 2020

Intersectionality Talks with Dr. Justin Shaw

Co-sponsored by PSU English and the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative, Intersectionality Talks is a new digital speaker series at Plymouth State University that features intersectional work on literature and culture. The program seeks to provide an interdisciplinary audience and platform for engaged, public-facing work from early career scholars and an opportunity to foster conversations at PSU about new research...

Faculty/Literature/News/Plymouth State University

October 12, 2020

Alumni Updates: Six Years in China

In 2014, Keith R. Bouchard arrived in China one week after graduating from PSU to teach English in Beijing. He worked for two years in an English training center before opening his own private classroom, Keith’s Happy English Classes, which has been in operation since 2016. In 2018 he was also invited to be the guest lecturer on early childhood...

Alumni/Employment/Videos

October 9, 2020

Words Unbound: Reading Globally

The PSU Canon is back! Except that, given PSU English’s commitment to Rethinking literature and blowing up the Western canon, we’re renaming this official blog The Ellen Reeder in honor of Ellen Reed. Check out this wealth of Iranian Writers curated by Niloufar Talebi, author, literary translator, interdisciplinary artist, producer, and teaching lecturer at PSU. Talebi most frequently teaches Writing...

Literature/Plymouth State University/Teachers

June 8, 2018

Spring 2018 Cluster Composition Publications

Wondering how PSU’s new cluster model can revamp courses to be more interdisciplinary and innovative? Check out this round of Professor Taylore Aussiker’s Cluster Composition digital magazines! These student-created, semester-long projects integrate graphic design and publishing components into the discipline-wide required course Composition, effectively giving students the chance to build technical skills while becoming proficient writers. Check out the Spring...

Faculty/PSU Student Works

April 27, 2018

Reading at a Distance: World War I Word Clouds

For the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, I decided to write a blog post on poetry written during the war. As I sorted through various war poets such as Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edgell Rickword, a compilation on the Poetry Foundation website stuck out to me. It wasn’t so much the poems themselves that caught...

Literature/PSU Student Works

April 6, 2018

Take a Bite Out of Grad School This Wednesday in the HUB

Interested in taking a few graduate classes while you complete your bachelor’s degree? Stop by the HUB Hage Room this Wednesday, March 28 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm to learn more! Check out the flyer below for more details:

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March 16, 2018

Table Talk: Are Video Games Worth Scholarly Study?

Join Plymouth State University students Jessica, Emily, Peter, and Nick in a discussion on video games in art, academia, and culture! Listen to some of PSU’s best and brightest tackle the topic of video games as a podcast on The Canon’s Soundcloud or watch the video below! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/414329133″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAMZnjzPKTw

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March 12, 2018

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities: March-April

Nervous about graduation? Feel like you need to develop your professional image? Come join in on the career development opportunities coming this March and April! These opportunities are perfect for English majors who wish to step into professional careers after graduation, or for those looking to improve their professional persona. Senior Professional Dinner Thursday, March 29, 6:00pm-8:00pm Merrill Place Conference...

Employment/Plymouth State University

March 2, 2018

PSU Student Works: Shayla Locke’s YA Novel “Rise From the Ashes”

This fall, Plymouth State University offered a Special Topics in Writing course on Young Adult Fiction. This writing-intensive class, held by Professor Joseph Monninger (a veteran YA novelist), had students work on a singular, novel-length piece of YA fiction throughout the entire course. Senior English major Shayla Locke was one of the students who dipped their toes into writing for young...

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