The Ellen Reeder

November 1, 2021

Alumni Wins MTG Award

Congratulations to PSU English alum Dan Bosco who was recently awarded the MTG Content Creators Award for best single magic article with his blog post: “Magic is a Sport and Requires Good Sportsmanship.”  “A four-player game requires interaction, politics, and sometimes even teamwork. But if one person is mentally clocked-out, checking their phone, arms crossed and just waiting for it...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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April 19, 2021

So Much Depends Upon Delicious Crêpes and Warm Coffee

By Erik Dow Another day to attend class remotely. Another day for an online zoom call with one of my bosses and fellow coworkers. Another two thousand plus words in total due by next week. Another day, looking at my screen. The amount of time I spend looking at a computer screen throughout the day is not healthy. From class...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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