English faculty and students present at Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Conference

Dr. Elizabeth Kirchoff, Associate Professor of English, along with Katie Hansen, Abby Swegarden, and David Vinje, all three students majoring in Communication Arts/Literature Teacher Education, presented at the Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference Friday, April 12, in Bloomington, Minn. Their panel presentation, “From Theory to Practice: Luring and Leading Reluctant Readers,” focused on pre-reading and during-reading lesson […]

Kevin Zepper presented “Prose Poems as Teaching Resources” at the Minnesota Writing and English Conference

Kevin Zepper, MFA in the English Department, presented at the Minnesota Writing and English Conference at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota April 5. The theme for this year’s conference was “Writing Cultures.” Zepper’s presentation topic was “Prose Poems as Teaching Resources.” His program encouraged instructors to incorporate their own creative writing examples to generate assignments and prompts for English […]

MFA Department hosts readings in Spirit Room

The MFA Department will host a series of readings this spring at the Spirit Room in downtown Fargo. The purpose is to showcase the student writers of the MFA in Creative Writing program. Didn’t know MSUM had a MFA program? Now you do! Perhaps you’re a writer and want to learn about the program. Check. Maybe you just want to […]