Detroit Mercy English Department

Congratulations, Prof. Michael Lauchlan! We are lucky to have you in our department!

Recent Detroit Mercy English Department alum Mel Converse shares her work this Thursday at the Gaelic League!

During , the salutes Broadside Lotus Press which continues the pioneering and poetic legacy of Dudley Randall (1914-2000) and Naomi Long Madgett (1923-2020). Mr. Randall established Broadside Press in 1965 and is featured in our 2015 African American Booklist. You can read more about African American poets here: https://bit.ly/2015AABooklist

In the latest piece on Between the Pages, students in Prof. Pasqualina's Writing About Literature course reflect on their trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts, where they were asked to spend 10 minutes with a piece of art...

Ways of Seeing In April 2026, students in Professor Stephen Pasqualina’s Writing About Literature and Literary Theory courses visited the Detroit Institute of Arts. Their task: spend 10 minutes with a singl…

Triptych+1 is our biggest student reading of the year. Thank you to Book Suey and special guest alumna Sarah Pazur, and congratulations to our extraordinary student writers!

Join us tomorrow, March 19, at 6:30 for the incomparable Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris! All Triptych events are free and open to everyone. Register at the link in our bio.

Join us for a night of poetry with celebrated poets and translators Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky!

Triptych is free, online, and open to the community. Register at https://linktr.ee/DetroitMercyEnglish

Farris and Kaminsky will share work from Letters of the Alphabet Go To War, their translation of Ukranian poet Lesyk Panasiuk’s account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, during the apex of war and brutality at the hands of the Russian military.

Find out more about Triptych: https://chass.udmercy.edu/academics/eng/triptych.php

We are so proud of English major alumna Erin Letourneau and English minor alumni Jacob Yasso, champions in the 16th Annual Patrick A. Keenan Memorial Appellate Advocacy Competition!

Congrats to the Keenan Moot Court Competition champions, Jacob Yasso, 2L, and Erin Letourneau, 2L and other finalists Mustafa Nahhas, 2L, and Emma Hamilton, 2L!. And, thanks to the final round judges: Hon. Michael J. Riordan ‘90, Hon. Victoria A. Valentine ‘98, and Hon. Thomas C. Cameron.