UNI Languages & Literatures

06/12/2026

There's a new display up in the English library celebrating the career of Professor Emerita Barbara Lounsberry. Check it out the next time you're in Bartlett Hall.

06/10/2026

If you missed Sean Thomas Dougherty & J.D. Schraffenberger’s FTRS release reading for their new poetry collection, Dueling Shovels, here’s your chance to check it out: https://youtu.be/mpwiKWu6G6Y

Find out more about the book and limited signed copies at http://finalthursdaypress.com/

The 25th season of the Final Thursday Reading Series concluded with...

05/16/2026

Congratulations to the Class of ‘26 from the Department of Languages & Literatures!

05/08/2026

We had a great turnout for the release of anthologies from this semester’s Craft of Fiction class. All books are now available digitally through Amazon’s Kindle store. Print versions coming this summer. Congrats to all authors!

04/30/2026

Congratulations to our newest full professors in Languages and Literatures: Elizabeth Zwanziger (French, on left), Heather Jeronimo (Spanish, on right), and Wendy Hoofnagle (English)!

04/24/2026

Congrats to English M.A. Riley McCall, winner of this year’s Outstanding Graduate Creative Thesis Award!

04/19/2026

Congrats to all the poets who took part in this year’s Cedar Valley Youth Poet Laureate Commencement, and special thanks to judge and featured reader, National Book Award winner Martìn Espada. Another great job by the !

04/16/2026

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04/13/2026

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04/13/2026

L&L represented at Rod Con 2026 with a poetry reading, a book signing, book sales, and a giveaway of 150 mini chapbooks by this semester’s Craft of Fiction students, some of whom helped work the book table. Thanks to all!