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November 4, 2021

Share a Memory

Message from Professor, Paul Rogalus Dear Plymouth State English Alumni and Friends:(really, anyone who’s taken an English class here over the past 30 years) I am writing to invite you all to reconnect with us, and to help us celebrate the teaching careers of three of our most dedicated and popular professors, all of whom retired earlier this year: Joe...

Alumni/Faculty/Plymouth State University/Submissions

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

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...

Events/Faculty/Plymouth State University/Teachers

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

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...

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...

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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...

Alumni/News/PSU Student Works

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...

PSU Student Works/Students/Submissions

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...

Events/Faculty