USCB English, Theater, & Interdisciplinary Studies

Submit your ideas now for the 2nd Annual Virtual IDST Conference!

28 February & 1 March 2022
Theme: Blurred Lines: Breaking Barriers Between Higher Education & the “Real” World
For the second annual IDST Virtual Conference, we want to work at the ways that higher education informs, explores, invites, and hides routes to the “real world” beyond the boundaries of academia. We invite papers, roundtable ideas and presentations that push against the walls that separate college life - and work - and what students experience in life outside the confines of academia. Many undergraduate and graduate students work outside of school and/or off campus - how do these experiences contribute, rebut, or enforce their collegiate experiences? Furthermore, many students take internship courses that involve them in their larger university or disciplinary communities - how do these experiences shape their experience in and outside higher education? How do students design “degrees that work”?

To learn more & submit, click the link below!
https://academics.uscb.edu/academic-innovation/interdisciplinary-conference/index.html

ETIS grads, gather those rhetoric skills and seize this kairotic moment! (This post brought to you by Doc Swoff, obv)

Director of Taco Relations McCormick is looking for its first ever Director of Taco Relations and we’re calling all taco fanatics to submit below.

Dr. Joan S. Taylor taught English at USCB from 1970-98. We extend our sympathies to Dr. Taylor's family, and we are grateful for the wisdom she shared with so many of USCB's students.

Dr. Joan S. Taylor taught English at USCB from 1970-98 and was beloved by her students and colleagues. Her life will be celebrated May 27 at the Port Royal Sound Foundation. Details at: https://www.andersonfuneralhomebeaufortsc.com/obituary/joan-taylor

As we conclude the spring 2021 semester and the 2020-2021 academic year, we offer our congratulations and love to our 2021 graduating class of English, Secondary English, and Interdisciplinary Studies majors and to all our minors! You’ve all accomplished so much and, in the past year especially, under extraordinary and challenging circumstances, you persisted. We’re so proud of you, and we wish you all the best always. Please stay in touch to let us know what you’re up to! ❤

Cheers and congrats as well to our 2021 university and ETIS departmental awardees!

Tombe/Eby Award for Outstanding Graduate in English: Ashley Lockard

Award for Outstanding Graduate in English Education: Madison Riley

Gordon Haist Interdisciplinary Studies Outstanding Student of the Year Award: Destiney Rains

Gold Scout Award for Interdisciplinary Studies: Margie Hill

Outstanding Graduate in English Award: Amanda Smith

Outstanding Minor in English Literature Award: Karen Chavarria

Outstanding Minor in Theater Award: Sabrina May

Professional Writing Award: Andrew Baldino

Distinguished Achievement Award for Creative Writing: Ashley Lockard

Society of Creative Writers Award for Editorial Excellence: Amanda Smith

Society of Creative Writers Award for Poetry: Edra Stephens

Society of Creative Writers Award for Fiction: Ashley Lockard

We'll have full blown social media celebrations of all these winners in the Fall.

ETIS students—you might want to check and see if you’re eligible for monthly help with your broadband, especially if you have a Pell Grant!

Emergency Broadband Benefit Congress has tasked the FCC with developing a new $3.2 billion program to help U.S. households that are struggling to pay for internet service during the pandemic. The FCC is mobilizing people and organizations to help share important consumer information about the Emergency Broadband Benefit. To pa...

Join us for our Spring production...from the comfort of your home!

Get experience in publishing in Dr. Malphrus' Fall ENGL 211! Learn more, sign up: See http://tinyurl.com/etisf21 for descriptions of our Fall 2021 courses!

Online; synchronous sessions Tu 12:15-1:30. Pre-req: ENGL 102, with a C or higher. English 222 (Creative Writing Across the Curriculum) very strongly encouraged. This is a 1 credit course and can be taken 5 times (for a total of 6 credits).
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~Benjamin Franklin
The Pen, a publication of the USCB Society of Creative Writers, features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, short plays, and artwork created by USCB students. In this one hour credit course, students will solicit calls for creative works, evaluate submissions, design page and journal layouts, copyedit pieces accepted for publication, and organize strategies to publicize and promote the journal on campus and in the community. Beyond offering you firsthand experience for future internships and positions in editing and publishing, the culmination of the course each semester will be completion and publication of the journal itself.

In Fall 2021, join Dr. Pate for comedy, humor, and ideology! Learn more, sign up: See http://tinyurl.com/etisf21 for descriptions of our Fall 2021 courses! Face-to-Face / M W 3:30–4:45.

English 460: Prof Writing hits the road! Students in ‘s class learned more about how to take English to work on our trip to Camp Saxton and Porter’s Chapel! (And got to finally get close to the Emancipation Oak and hear Charlotte Forten’s account read at the site!) What a day! What an amazing group of students!

In Fall 2021, join Dr. Erin McCoy and Dr. Brian Canada for a team-taught course in Digital Humanities. Learn more, sign up: See http://tinyurl.com/etisf21 for descriptions of our Fall 2021 courses!

Face-to-Face / Tu Th 12:15–1:30, LIB 241. Pre-req: C in ENG 102.
What is “Digital Humanities''? What all does this umbrella term cover? IDST B439, the first version of USCB’s upcoming Digital Humanities minor, aims to find out what many many ingredients make up the puzzle of digital humanities. This course requires students to participate in individual and group projects, learn basic coding, and explore the various facets of the digital humanities world via guest lecturers from all around the USCB stage. Dive in, get digital!