Cottey College English Department

10/03/2026

Dr. Stubblefield's Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, and Social Justice class attended the Midwest Soul VegFest in Kansas City today! We were able to talk with people from several animal rescue organizations, hear a wide range of speakers, learn more about animal-focused or vegan organizations/business, eat some yummy food, and enjoy a beautiful fall day! And we made it home without adopting any animals! 😉

10/02/2026

A new faculty member, new courses, and a new credit hour system calls for a new Writing Minor flyer!!

09/30/2026

Today we had a fun English department lunch and welcomed our new Writing professor, Dr. Riopelle, to the program! Thanks to everyone who joined us and who wanted to join us but had other obligations! (We missed you!)

09/29/2026

Ceridwen Hall is a poet, essayist, educator, and writing coach. She earned her MFA at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and completed her PhD at the University of Utah, where she received the Clarence Snow Fellowship and the Levis Prize in Poetry. She is the author of Acoustic Shadows and The School for Danger and Other Studies (forthcoming in 2026), as well as the chapbooks Automotive, fields drawn from subtle arrows (Co-winner of the 2022 Midwest Chapbook Award), and minutes between city and forest. Her writing explores the technologies that haunt our past and the habits that shape our present. Her poems and essays have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review, and other journals, and have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes.
Dr. Hall's books will soon be available in our Library. Be sure to check them out!

09/25/2026

Dr. Sarah Polo has a chapter featured in a new edited collection! Edited by Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule, _Writing Artifacts_ examines 31 unique artifacts through the lens of material culture studies. Dr. Polo’s chapter is titled “The Course Notebook of Margaret Kane, 1899” and explores a notebook produced by a student at the University of Kansas for a course on “Advanced English Composition.” Our Cottey English faculty love reading and studying student writing – past and present!

_Writing Artifacts_ is available in the Cottey Library or online at https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Artifacts/Alexis-Rule/p/book/9781041084860

09/24/2026

Are you interested in English or Writing at Cottey?
Do you want to find out more about opportunities the English department offers?
Are you an English major or minor, or a Writing minor?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, we want to have lunch with you!
Please join the English/Writing faculty for lunch in Raney Dining Hall Wednesday, September 30, from 11:30-1.
Hope to see you there!

09/19/2026

Cottey's very own Dr. Jon Green (Writing faculty) and Dr. Amanda Gilchrist (Psychology faculty) are in this production! Mark your calendars, and don't miss it!

Coming in October: brace yourselves for an awfully big adventure when the inept and accident-prone Cornley Drama Society set out to present J.M. Barrie’s much-loved classic tale of Peter Pan, their most audacious production to date.

In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the team behind the Tony Award®-winning global hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, bring their trademark comic mayhem to the stage once more.

The much-loved members of The Cornley Drama Society again battle against technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes on their way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results. With three evening performances and two matinees, you will have ample opportunities to see this outstanding production.

Tickets for all performances available now at www.foxplayhouse.org

Generously sponsored by Hertzberg Furniture Company.

See you at the Fox!

09/16/2026

Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.

08/26/2026