Lamar English Masters

Need a summer read? Our Lending Library is open to all LU and LIT staff, faculty, and students! Located right outside Maes 04.

Congratulations to Katherine Waterbury for successfully passing her MA oral exams today. Katherine plans to use her education to teach and research. The field is lucky to have her!

Join us this afternoon at 4pm for Vincent Spina's poetry reading. We'll be in Maes 106.

Check out the first edition of the The Beaumont Enterprise's new column, The Beaumont Book Beat. The column is (and will be) written by the department's own Katie Hoerth.

The Beaumont Book Beat: Week of November 16 | The Examiner When you first open The Shoeshine Boy, you’ll be pulled into the Texas/Mexico borderlands in the 1920s, a world of cartels, violence and poverty. The Shoeshine Boy will keep you questioning what’s real, what’s imagined, and ultimately, what it means to be human.

"What matters now is not the skills you have but how you think. Can you ask the right questions? Do you know what problem you’re trying to solve in the first place?"

An MA in English goes a long way to teaching you how to comprehend and analyze problems, better preparing you to think critically and imaginatively about solutions. The employment options are much broader than the typical careers English MAs are typically associated with . If you think an MA in English might be good for your career, come talk to us!

Liberal Arts Majors Are the Future of the Tech Industry Why the hard sciences need the humanities

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Katt Blackwell-Starnes, alumni Salena Parker, and current graduate student Katherine Waterbury will present at the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication - CCCC in Kansas City, Missouri next spring. Their roundtable "Beyond 'Just Keep Writing': Assisting Graduate Students with Writing Anxiety" pledges to foster dialogue among faculty and graduate students, including audience participants, about graduate student writing anxiety.

This week's featured alumni is Salena Parker. During her time at Lamar, Salena took classes in literature, writing, and rhetoric. She also received many opportunities to work in the Writing Center, as a teaching assistant to several of our talented faculty, teach in our first year writing program, and be part of a university grant. After graduating in August, Salena moved to Waco and now works as an instructor at Texas State Technical College. Her future plans include a Ph.D. and possibly teaching in Western Europe.

Advising begins November 2. Here's the sneak peek at writing and literature courses we are offering for Spring 2018.

Calling all Lamar University English and Modern Language Department MA alums:
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