LSSU - School of Arts & Letters

02/19/2020

Tyler Dettloff will be reading from his chapbook of poems this Friday, Feb. 21, at 3PM in the LSSU Library Learning Commons.

02/05/2020

Mary McMyne (Creative Writing) has a new story, "The Institute," in the recent issue of Arkansas Review.

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies focuses on the seven-state Mississippi River Delta. Interdisciplinary in scope, we welcome original contributions from all the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, art history, folklore studies, history, literature, musicology, political...

01/31/2020

Check out Thomas Meacham (Theatre) on NPR talking about The Circle as epistolary drama.

Contestants on the new social-media-based reality show, The Circle, never meet in person. Their online profiles may not be what they seem — reminding us of a certain kind of literary drama.

01/24/2020

Congratulations to Thomas Meacham (Theatre) on the publication of his book, The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University, from De Gruyter and Medieval Institute Publications.

This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syll...

11/25/2019

Check out Tyler Dettloff's poem in The Rumpus.

Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

10/28/2019

We will always need the ability to tell and understand stories.

English majors are down 25.5 percent since the Great Recession, just as world’s top economists say we need more ‘storytellers.’

10/24/2019

We're looking forward to the Tibetan Monk Residency next week at the Arts Center! More information and a schedule is available at: https://www.lssu.edu/arts-center/tibetan-monk-residency/

10/17/2019

Chad Barbour (English) has a book chapter out in Inventing Destiny from the University Press of Kansas. The chapter is called "Revising Hannah Duston: Domesticity and the Frontier in Nineteenth-Century Retellings of the Duston Captivity."

The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a br

10/14/2019

Fall in the U.P.

10/11/2019

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