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April 21, 2010

English majors to present at Northern Plains Conference

Three English Literature majors will be presenting papers at the Northern Plains
Conference on Early British Literature April 23-24 at the University of Mary, Bismarck, N.D. The following students will constitute the session: The Future of the Organization I: Undergraduate Panel. The presenters are: Vanessa Perkins: “Women and Revenge in Titus Andronicus”; Rachael Johnson: “Milton’s Tree of Knowledge as Highest Providence”; and Adam Heidebrink: “Gulliver and the Quest for Freedom.” This is the third year Stephen Hamrick, English, has taken an MSUM undergraduate panel to present work at this regional conference.

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April 19, 2010

The Year of Magical Thinking April 22

The English Department, McGrath Visiting Writers Series and the Film Studies Department announce a special performance of Joan Didion’s play—adapted from her memoir—The Year of Magical Thinking, presented by Theatre B and featuring Mary Cochran, Thursday, April 22 from 4:30-6 p.m. in Weld Hall Auditorium. It’s free and open to all students, faculty and staff. Click headline for details.

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April 7, 2010

Jill Frederick presented at annual Easter conference

Jill Frederick, English, gave a presentation, “Ships and the Sea in the Exeter Book Riddles,” at the annual Easter conference held by the University of Manchester (England)’s Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies. This year’s theme, “The Anglo-Saxons and their World,” was attended by scholars from the United Kingdom, Europe and the U.S.

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March 29, 2010

Author Rachel Coyne at MSUM Tuesday

Rachel Coyne, author of the novel Whiskey Heart (New Rivers Press, 2009), will read from her work at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 30 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. She’ll also give a talk on the writers’ craft at 4 p.m. that day. Both events will be held in Comstock Memorial Union 101. Click headline for more on Rachel Coyne and for links to an interview and a review of Whiskey Heart.

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