Shari Scapple elected to literature association committee

Shari Scapple, English, has been elected to the Article Award Committee of the Children’s Literature Association. She will serve a three-year term on the committee, which reviews all published articles dealing with children’s literature in a year’s time and selects one as the best. Children’s literature is Scapple’s specialty. She has been a member of the international organization since 1978 […]

MFA reading at the Spirit Room Sept. 22

The MFA Department will have a series of readings this year showcasing MFA students and visiting readers. It is free and open to the public. The first reading is Thursday, September 22 at 8:00 p.m., featuring MFA candidates John Powers, Megan Bartholomay and Ryan Christiansen.  (Spirit Room: 701.237.0230)  

English profs to lead Emerald Isle tour

There are still a few available spaces, but time is running out! “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.” —W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” […]

Alan Davis reading Sept. 8

MSUM English Professor Alan Davis reads from his newest collection of fiction, So Bravely Vegetative, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 in Room 227 of MSUM’s Comstock Memorial Union. This is the first writer’s event of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. The 152-page book introduces readers to scenes from Davis’ native Louisiana, as well as characters like a Slovenian […]