Citadel English, Fine Arts, and Communications Department

This doesn't happen at The Citadel!

Were the "1900s" really so long ago????

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‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October

Professor Michael Livingston welcomed to his office a group of devotees of the work of fantasy author Robert Jordan, the pen name of Citadel alumnus James Rigney '74. The reason? Why, to see the actual roll-top desk at which Mr. Rigney wrote all of his famous works, of course! It resides proudly in Prof. Livingston's new office. For more pics of Dr. Livingston and his visitors from OgierCon 2023, just go here: https://www.thelightswork.com/ogiercon

We were very happy to welcome back to campus English alumni (and brothers) Franklin McGuire '14 and Thomas McGuire '16! Both were in town for the Medal of Honor Leadership and Education Center meeting held in Capers Auditorium last night. Franklin is a law student at USC Law, and Thomas runs a consulting company he and Franklin created. Both are also officers in the SC National Guard. They were outstanding students in their cadet days, and it was a pleasure to have them back on campus!

Former students of Col. Tony N. Redd joined current and former English Department faculty members on Nov. 11 to dedicate the English, Fine Arts, and Communications wing of the new Capers Hall to the memory of Professor Redd. Tony Redd taught at The Citadel from 1966 to 2006, inspiring literally thousands of cadets to an enduring love and appreciation for great literature! Thanks to Jim Koppenhaver '80 and Charles Corbin '78 for making Saturday's ceremony a reality. Tony was looking down on us from heaven and smiling at the lasting impact he made! Afterward, faculty, friends, and alumni gathered at Herd Provisions for a celebratory luncheon in Dr. Redd's memory.

It was great to see former English major Sam Baker '13 this week. Here he is with Professor Lauren Rule Maxwell in the new Capers Hall!

The current exhibition of alumni art at The Citadel's Bo Moore Gallery features three works by former English major Lisa Wu '02!

More Homecoming Weekend visitors! In addition to Eric Skinner '22, we also had our former colleague Alyson Eggleston come by to the see the new Capers. Here she is with Professors Tom Thompson and Scott Lucas. Alyson left us in 2022 for an administrative job at the Penn State Univ. College of Medicine. She is enjoying her new work!

Stop by Capers Hall today and tomorrow for an Alumni Art Exhibition while you celebrate Homecoming!

This annual exhibition showcases outstanding work by talented Citadel graduates from a wide range of classes who share a common interest in the arts that we continue to celebrate and cultivate as evident in the inaugural arts spaces in the new Capers Hall building.

Friday, November 3, 10am-5pm (reception 3-5pm)
Saturday, November 4, 8am-2pm

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It's Homecoming weekend! We in EFAC were very happy to have a visit from former English major Eric Skinner '22, who is shown here (giving the thumbs up) with department head Scott Lucas and two other alumni. Eric is up in Columbia at USC, pursuing a master's degree.

Chaplain Aaron Meadows '04, who teaches in our department, and his students are dressed up as a bishop and ancient Romans respectively to advertise The Citadel's study abroad trip to Rome at the Study Abroad Fair! Their costumes are also just in time for Halloween!

Why pass out candy this Halloween, when you could pass out instead...Boris Karloff's guacamole?

The Tony N. Redd portrait is now up in the English, Fine Arts, and Communications Dept.! Come join us in the Capers Hall auditorium at noon on Nov. 11, as we dedicate our suite of offices to the memory of Tony Redd!

Congratulations to Professor Tom Horan, who delivered a well-attended presentation on the new novel _Julia_, an authorized retelling of George Orwell's _1984_, at the Friends of the Daniel Library meeting last night!

EFAC faculty members Tom Horan, Scott Lucas, Alaina Rink, Tiffany Silverman, and Amy Walters all accompanied cadets off campus to learn about leadership in the workplace on Leadership Day 2023. Here are a few photos from the events!

Alumni and friends in the Charleston area: please join us! On 11 November at 1200 hours, The Citadel's English, Fine Arts, and Communications Department will dedicate its suite of offices in the new Capers Hall to the memory of Col. Tony N. Redd, beloved colleague and mentor to literally thousands of Citadel cadets during his forty years of service to our institution! The ceremony will take place in the new Capers Hall auditorium, and it is open to all friends and alumni of our department. We'd love to see you there. Please message us if you would like to come, so we can be sure to have refreshments for you for the reception and tour of the Redd wing of Capers after the ceremony! We in the department thank Jim Koppenhaver '80, Charles Corbin '78, and all the other generous alumni out there who made the dream of honoring Tony Redd a reality!

Happy 75th birthday to one of The Citadel's most distinguished authors, James O. Rigney '74, best known by his pen name Robert Jordan. Mr. Rigney passed away in 2007, but his memory and legacy is alive and well in The Citadel's English, Fine Arts, and Communications Department!

Everyone had a great time this week at the Hispanic Heritage luncheon, put on by EFAC's own Dr. Begoña Vilouta-Vazquez and our colleagues in the Modern Languages Department! There was good food, a Jeopardy-style trivia competition, and a demonstration of Latin ballroom dancing!

The Oxford comma is here! The final piece of our department's sign in the new Capers Hall is finally in place. See the photos for before and after!

Congratulations to Professor Michael Livingston, who presented on British Medieval History at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA, last week. Over 150 turned out to hear his lecture on England's Edward the Black Prince and the Age of Armor!

Calling all creative Citadel grads!

Submit your artwork by Oct 20 for the *second* annual Alumni Art Exhibition. Form is here: https://bit.ly/citadelalumni

This pop-up show will be on view just during Homecoming Weekend, with a reception on Fri, Nov 3 from 3-5 pm in the new Capers Gallery for all exhibit artists, Fine Arts minors, Friends of Fine Arts, Fine Arts grads, and the interested public!

Professor Michael Livingston had a great turn out this week for the presentation "Wheel of Time: Books to Film," which was held in the new Capers Hall auditorium. Dr. Livingston served as moderator and commentator both, joining Harriet McDougal, the widow of famed Citadel grad James "Robert Jordan" Rigney '74, and Ms. Maria Simons, Rigney's editor and assistant, as they responded to clips from the Amazon Prime show _The Wheel of Time_. Later, English k**b Reese Lawson, a huge Robert Jordan fan, got to meet Ms. McDougal, who is a legendary editor and sci-fi publisher in her own right, and, after the gathering, a crowd came up to Prof. Livingston's office to see the actual desk at which Mr. Rigney wrote his classic fantasy works!

More scenes from the opening of the _Behind the Lines_ exhibition of Citadel-created combat art in the new Capers Hall!

Don't miss the inaugural exhibition at the Winfred "Bo" Moore Art Gallery in the new Capers Hall! Here are a few photos from the "sneak peak" opening for some of our college's strongest supporters of Art at The Citadel! All the art on exhibit was created by artists who spent time in residence at The Citadel and really got to know our campus and our cadets!

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For 13th consecutive year, The Citadel is named #1 Public University in the South by U.S. News & World Report - The Citadel Today For the 13th straight year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked The Citadel as the best Public University in the South.

The English, Fine Arts, and Communications Dept. was very happy to welcome English alumnus Jim Koppenhaver '80 back to campus to see the new Tony N. Redd wing of Capers Hall. Jim created the Tony N. Redd scholarship for English majors many years ago, and he was part of the team that got our wing of Capers named after one of The Citadel's most learned and beloved professors, Tony Redd. Here is Jim with department head Scott Lucas on Saturday!

The new Capers Hall is officially open! While faculty have been in the building for several weeks now, the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday officially opened the building for one and all.

We're getting Capers Hall ready for the ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the building tomorrow at 1000 hours! We hope some of our English and Fine Arts alumni will be on hand to see our department's new space in the Col. Tony N. Redd wing of Capers!

Professor Lauren Rule Maxwell, co-director of The Citadel's Distinguished Scholars Program, hosted an open house for sophomores interested in joining this rigorous program for The Citadel's best and most ambitious academic students. Here is Dr. Maxwell speaking with English major Lucy McArthur (on left) at the meeting. Lucy is an excellent student: we hope she will join the D.S.P.!

Members of the English faculty at The Citadel and the College of Charleston got together on Monday for a welcome reception to kick off a new year for our Citadel-C of C joint master's program! A highlight of the reception were talks by Amy Walters, M.A. '23, and Elizabeth Quarles, M.A. '23, on the ambitious capstone projects they completed to earn their master's degrees. Amy (at the head of the table) and Elizabeth (on Amy's left in blue) gave fine, stimulating talks. Amy, we are happy to report, has taken a teaching position in our department and is teaching FSWI 101 (the writing-intensive freshman class that replaced ENGL 101 and 102) this semester!