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February 9, 2021

The Ellen Reeder’s New Student Editor

Hello to everyone and welcome back to PSU! I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing break. Before the semester takes off, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Asia Merrill. I’m a fourth year English major and, more recently, the student editor for The Ellen Reeder this semester. I’m also the editor of the...

News/PSU Student Works/Students

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

November 27, 2017

Amazon to Make “The Lord of the Rings” TV Series

The journey through Middle-earth continues… Amazon has announced that it will be producing a multi-season, television adaptation based off of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings book series. The adaptation will cover events preceding the series’ first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. Users of the website Reddit have argued that the television adaptation should be considered less of a Lord of the Rings series, and...

Literature/News

November 3, 2017

What is NaNoWriMo?

“National Novel Writing Month is a nonprofit that believes your story matters. We provide the structure, community, and encouragement to help people find their voices, achieve creative goals, and build new worlds—on and off the page.” –NaNoWriMo Mission Statement The 19th annual National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, kicked off on November 1, 2017. NaNoWriMo participants aim to...

News/Uncategorized

September 16, 2017

“Official” Dracula Prequel Penned by Stoker’s Nephew

Is it really an official prequel if the author didn’t write it? Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew to Bram Stoker, is blurring the obvious answer to that question. Dracula, published in 1897, is one of the most famous examples of Gothic literature to date. Bram Stoker, the author, wrote Dracula as a standalone novel. The vampiric horror story became integrated into the literary canon...

Literature/News