University of Missouri English Department

🎊 Congrats to our award-winning students and upcoming graduates 🎓

👀 check out these stellar ✨ English classes next semester and enroll today ✅

📚 Join local Columbia author and New York Times bestseller Laura McHugh on Wednesday, Nov. 6th 🔜 for an engaging discussion and book signing 🖋

All students welcome ✅
WHEN: 11/6 from 10-11 am
WHERE: Strickland Hall 204

📒 Catch these English classes this spring 💯

More 🆒 English classes are headed your way for Spring 2025 🔜

✅ Roll call ✏️

Get ready to enroll in your next English class for Spring 25 🤩

What class are you signing up for? 📚

📝 Join the English Department's Composition Program for the National Day on Writing

📅 Friday 10/18 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
📍Lowry Mall in front of the Student Success Center
☕ Coffee and snacks
🎟 Hourly prizes

📅 Tomorrow! Author and Professor Minsoo Kang will give a reading for the Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series tomorrow (9/12) at 5:30 pm in Swallow Hall 101 📚

This event is 🆓 and open to the public ✅

Minsoo Kang is a professor of European history, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of France, England, and Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He received his 🎓 Ph.D. in June 2004 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

His first novel, The Melancholy of Untold History, is steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative through the themes of love and grief.

📅 Join the English Department, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and author Matt Seybold for a talk on Friday, September 13th at 4 pm in Tate Hall 102

🎩 Curious about all things Mark Twain?

Matt Seybold is a Mark Twain scholar and 🎓 associate professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College.

His talk is entitled "On Agency, James, & The Twain Doctrine," which will address the propagandization of Twain during the 🫡🇺🇸 Cold War and how that legacy still resonates in, but is also complicated by, Percival Everett's James.

This presentation is co-sponsored by The State Historical Society of Missouri

Learn more about the event here: https://shsmo.org/events/2024/agency-james-twain-doctrine

🎓 One of our amazing graduate students, McKenzie Peck, recently won the poster competition at the 2024 New Chaucer Society Congress 📚 in Pasadena, California

Looking for a 🆒 English class for Fall 2024?!

Check out this course about global rhetoric traditions 📚