Literature – The Ellen Reeder

May 19, 2023

Shakespeare for Social Justice, Spring 2023

EN 4805.01: Shakespeare Single Author Study, or Shakespeare for Social Justice, is a course at Plymouth State University in which students explore Shakespearean literature through various social justice lenses over the course of the semester. The course is co-taught by Jessie Chapman and Nic Helms. Each student chooses a project topic to explore in depth and share their knowledge with...

Literature/PSU Student Works/Students

February 17, 2022

PSU Centripetal Returns

After a Covid-infested year and a half of hibernation, the PSU literary magazine, Centripetal, is back in business! Please send your poetry, prose, or dramatic writing to: psupoetsandwriters@gmail.com by the end of the day on Tuesday, March 1st.

Literature/Plymouth State University/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...

Events/Literature/Plymouth State University

October 20, 2021

Superstitions

Teaching Lecturer Taylore Aussiker’s piece: Superstitions was recently published in the April 2021 Scriblerus Arts Journal. Next semester, Aussiker will be teaching ENDI 2235: Creating Arguments, which treats argumentation as a creative process. This reflective piece about how the pandemic brought a new awareness to her superstitions and rituals. It’s about searching out what you can control in a world...

Faculty/Literature/Submissions/Teachers

November 9, 2020

Between Us, Susan Aubin

Between Us is a love story told through poetry. Witness characters Kennedy and Harrison fall for one another and build a life together. Tender and bitter moments fill these pages laced with love. The author, Susan Aubin, focused on the rich descriptive settings of the White Mountains and New York City and left out all physical features of the characters...

Literature/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Submissions

October 30, 2020

NaNoWriGo!

Writers! November is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month! Several PSU English alumni have participated, sometimes numerous years, in NaNoWriMo, and one of them, Nikole Breault, keeps a blog about her work as a writer. Nikole earned her BA in English Education at PSU and taught for eight years. She also earned her Master of Education degree in the Teaching...

Alumni/Literature

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 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

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

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

Category: Literature