Creative Writing Professor Dr. Eric Schlich wins 2025 Stonewall Honor Book Award from the American Library Association
Dr. Eric Schlich's novel Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife has been awarded the American Library Association's 2025 Stonewall Honor book award! Click here to read more about this award, and click here for more information on Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife.
Applied Linguistics Professors Awarded $2.6 Million Grant for Professional Development of English Learners
Drs. Rebecca Adams and Emily Thrush, English Department, have been awarded a grant under the U.S. Department of Education's National Professional Development program. The project will receive $2.6 million over the next five years, beginning with $503,580 in the 2024-2025 academic year. These funds will be used to increase the number of licensed ESL teachers in local school systems. Huge congratulations to Drs. Adams and Thrush for this amazing achievement and for their outstanding work for our Applied Linguistics and TESOL students! You can read more about the project, Ensuring Success for English Learners, here.
Spring 2025
Celebrating Women's History Month: A Conversation with Comic Creator Liana Kangas - March 18th
The Helen Hardin Honors College, Women's and Gender Studies Department, and University Libraries presents a conversation with comic creator Liana Kangas in celebration of Women's
History Month on March 18th at 5pm in the McWherter Library second floor commons.
This discussion about comics publishing and freelancing as an artist will be moderated
by English Professor Tammy Jones. For more information, visit https://shorturl.at/AZCav
The Pinch Presents... Eric Barnes - March 18th & 19th
Eric Barnes is the author of four novels, The City Where We Once Lived (Arcade Publishing), Above the Ether (Arcade Publishing), Shimmer (Unbridled Books), and Something Pretty, Something Beautiful (Outpost19). He has also published more than 40 stories in journals including Prairie Schooner, North American Review, The Literary Review and the Best American Series. He's also the CEO and publisher of The Daily Memphian and the host of Behind the Headlines on WKNO TV. He'll talk with our students about his fiction and nonfiction and about literary careers in a changing landscape.
Eric Barnes will present a fiction reading on March 18th at 5:30pm in the UC River room, and will hold a craft interview on March 19th at 11am in Patterson Hall 456.
Honors Colloquium - March 24th & April 14th
The English Honors Colloquium is a series that began last year and invites faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate majors and minors, and anyone interested in English Studies to gather in fellowship to hear about and discuss the cutting-edge work being done by our faculty. On March 24th, Dr. Sage Graham will discuss “Infant Mortality, Health Literacy, and Breastfeeding Among African American Mothers in Memphis,” and on April 14th, Dr. Jeffrey Scraba will discuss “Oneself as a Cowboy: Nat Love’s Autobiography”. Talks will begin at 4:00pm in Patterson Hall 456.
University of Memphis English Graduate Organization Conference - April 25th & 26th
Keynote & Roundtable: Dr. John Edgar Browning (Savannah College of Art and Design) and Dr. Stephanie A.
Graves (Vanderbilt University) will be joining the University of Memphis English Graduate
Organization (UMEGO) for a conference keynote and roundtable event on Friday, April
25th at 6pm in the University Center Theatre. This event is co-sponsored by the Deb
Talbot Roundtable Fund and the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.
Conference: UMEGO's Learning from Fear Conference will be held in Patterson Hall on April 26th. Proposal submission is now closed, more information on each panel and presenter can be found here.
Dr. Andrew Donnelly Book Launch at novel. - April 28th
