HBU English

03/01/2022

Are you ready for the awesomeness/awkwardness? Be a part of the live studio audience for the pilot episode of Not My Department this Friday, March 4, at 8 pm in Denham Theater. Dr. Stelzer in English is ready to be embarrassed, and hopes you'll be there to watch.

02/21/2022

HBU students! Join us Feb. 28 for a presentation and discussion based on Richard Wright's short story, "The Man Who Was Almost A Man."

12/01/2021

On campus? Stop by UAC 122 now for cookies, coffee, and hot cocoa. Then come back at 4 pm to make your own gingerbread house and listen to faculty read their favorite Christmas poems. We would love to have you join us!

10/14/2021

TORCHY'S TACOBOUT THE AMLA

Friday Oct 15, from 11:00AM-1:00PM Hinton 113
Any students interested in the Accelerated Master's of Liberal Arts are invited to attend this information session. Come and go as your schedule allows.
Lunch from Torchy's is provided.

11/06/2020

"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine." --John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 1780.

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10/30/2020

For those considering graduate studies in the humanities, please join us for this panel discussion.

Graduate Studies in the Humanities: Is It worth It?

Join HBU faculty members Dr. Marybeth Bagget (English), Dr. Collin
Garbarino (History), and Dr. Gary Hartenburg (Philosophy) as they discuss the practical and vocational value of advanced studies in the Humanities.

November 18, 2020
12:00-1:00 p.m. via Zoom

Register online: https://qrco.de/GRAD

10/28/2020

HBU students, here's one of your exciting upper-level course options for Spring 2021: a new course on Religion & the Novel with Dr. Kinlaw. We hope you check it out!

10/21/2020

DON'T MISS THE MOODY LIBRARY FALL BOOK SALE!
Wednesday, October 21, 2020; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
OUTSIDE IN THE FRONT OF MOODY LIBRARY (weather permitting)

Are you looking to add to your personal library? Please come out and look through our selection of gently used books at the Moody Library Fall 2020 Book Sale. We also have DVDs/CDs/VHS tapes and other great deals that you can’t pass up. Nothing is over $2. Masks and distancing will be required. Gloves will be provided. The library will also provide gloves for attendees. Hope to see you there!

Paperback 25 cents – $1 | DVDs/CDs $1 | Hardback $2 | Records/VHS 50 cents

Book dealers: We kindly request that you please come after 9:00 a.m. Please leave books on the tables until you have made your purchasing decisions.

09/28/2020

“To think creatively, to struggle with an opaque text or confounding idea, to seek connections between periods of history or disciplines of thought, and to search for the precise word or the right rhythm for a single sentence—these are human actions every bit as worthy as the wielding of a hammer, the manipulation of a surgical scalpel, or the making of a courtroom argument.” —Roger Lundin

09/28/2020

The Venerable Bede has something to tell us about living in a pandemic. And so does our own Dr. David Grubbs!

David Grubbs draws on the wisdom of the Venerable Bede to remind us that we are part of the living body of believers, and we have a duty to one another and to that community.

09/22/2020

Thoughts on Beowulf and The Dream of the Rood by HBU alumnus Alex Markos

When Christians like St Augustine of Canterbury first brought the Gospel over to Britain in the late sixth century, they were entering a culture that was totally ignorant of the Jewish roots of the biblical narrative. No doubt, this posed great difficulty in translating the language and ideas of the...