English profs featured in Prairie Public interview Oct. 6

Literature in the Age of Terror is topic of interview A trick-or-treater comes to your door dressed as a terrorist, holding a rope attached to another trick-or-treater, who is labeled a “dead American.” Are you terrified? Outraged? Do you call the police? And if you do, what do you report? That you are offended by a Halloween costume? Just after […]

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 […]