February 21, 2022 Poets and Writers Open Mic Poets and Writers will be having an Open Mic in the HUB Fireplace Lounge on Thursday, March 24th, starting at 7:00. Any PSU student can go and read—or just watch. Categories Events/Plymouth State University/Poetry/PSU Student Works
November 3, 2021 Bellee Jones-Pierce The CoLab’s Intersectionality Talks will be hosting Bellee Jones-Pierce on Wednesday, November 11 at 7pm. This will be an informal conversation about disability poetics; specifically how lived experience can be used to understand literature. The event will be virtual in Zoom. Register for the event here. Her primary research areas are early modern literature, disability, and poetics. Her work as... Categories Events/Literature/Plymouth State University
October 25, 2021 Niki Tulk: Teaching to Trauma The Plymouth State University Sidore Lecture Series is excited to present Niki Tulk and her presentation: Teaching To Trauma. The talk will be on Tuesday, November 2 in Smith Recital Hall at 7pm. “This talk will address how, through centralizing trauma experience as normative—the order of things rather than a “disorder”— and by understanding the way our brains and bodies... Categories Events/Faculty/Plymouth State University/Teachers
September 15, 2021 Travis Lau Lecture and Poetry Reading The CoLab’s Intersectionality Talks will be hosting a poetry reading from Travis Lau! The reading will be on Thursday, September 23, at 7:00pm in Frost House. For more information and to view Lau’s work, visit his website, here. His newest book, Paring, will be available for purchase at the reading. Registration for the Zoom broadcast of the poetry reading is available... Categories Events/Poetry
September 8, 2021 Welcome Back Science library of Upper Lusatia in Görlitz, Germany. Hello everyone! I hope your summers were filled with joy and relaxation, and you’ve enjoyed the first beautiful two weeks back on campus. Welcome to the Ellen Reeder! My name is Miranda Kaplan, I am a senior English major, and will be serving as the student editor for the Ellen Reader. I... Categories News
May 6, 2021 A Digital Rhetoric Analysis of QAnon As student editor of The Ellen Reeder this semester — a role she’s been fantastic in! — Asia Merrill has also been tasked with studying Digital Rhetoric, a field of inquiry best theorized by Douglas Eyman. Her semester-long project has been choosing and analyzing a digital text for a final 3000 word essay to be published to this site. What follows is her... Categories Alumni/News/PSU Student Works
April 13, 2021 Dr. Kishonna Gray: Postponed Dr. Kishonna Gray’s Intersectionality Talk has been moved from March 17th to Wednesday, April 28th. The talk will include discussions of Dr. Gray’s book Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming. Click here to register! More information on these talks and the Co-Lab’s important work in the community can be found here. “Co-sponsored by PSU English and the CoLab, Intersectionality... Categories Events/Faculty
April 5, 2021 Kurt Braddock’s “The Hate Vaccine” This Week This week, the Sidore Lecture Series’ trend of discussing far-right hate groups continues with Kurt Braddock’s “The Hate Vaccine: Attitudinal Inoculation as Counter-Persuasion for Far-Right Extremist Propaganda”. Like all Sidore Lectures, it will be open to the public and virtual, and will take place on Wednesday, April 7th at 7:00PM. For more information, or to register, visit the lecture series... Categories Events/News
March 12, 2021 The Sidore Lecture Series Continues As the Saul O Sidore lecture series continues at PSU, we take a close look into right-wing extremist groups, and their impact on both Europe and the United States. Katherine Donahue, anthropologist and professor emeritus of Anthropology here in Plymouth, will present about her work on this topic in a talk titled “Cycles of Hatred and Rage: What Are Right-Wing... Categories Events/Faculty/Teachers
March 12, 2021 Intersectionality Talks: Kishonna Gray Interested in the representation of marginalized populations in gaming? Wondering how you can be a better ally in a digital space? Dr. Kishonna Gray plans to discuss her book Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming, and how intersectionality relates to the digital gaming sphere. The presentation will be over Zoom on Wednesday, March 17th, from 5:00 to 6:00PM. You... Categories Events/Faculty/News/Plymouth State University/Teachers