Events
English major Kevin Holton, aka, Alex Chase, will present at The University Store’s MU Author event in-store on Wednesday, April 24, from 6 - 7 p.m. Kevin will discuss his first novel, A Touch of Malice, as well as other short story ventures.
LITERATURE MATTERS: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty will present recent research. Check your MU e-mail and the English department Web site and bulletin boards for a program of events and updated information as the event nears.
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 7, 12 - 6 p.m.
Location: Samuel Magill Commons, Club 107
Michael Waters and Mihaela Moscaliuc will read their poems
Date & Time: Saturday, May 11, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Red Bank Public Library, 84 West Front Street, Red Bank, NJ
Michael Waters will read his poems at the Bryant Park Poetry Series
Date & Time: Tuesday, June 11, at 7 p.m.
Location: Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue, between W. 40th & W. 41st Streets, New York, NY
The 30th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association will be held Wednesday, June 26 through Saturday, June 29, 2012, at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey (hosted by SLA member and Monmouth English faculty Frank Fury). The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and/or complete sessions related to the literature of sport.
Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference should follow general guidelines set forth in the association's publication, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, which "celebrate[s] the intersection of literature with the world of play, games, and sport." Submissions "should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media)." We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome. We also encourage sessions focused on presenters' original fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The association welcomes papers from younger scholars and graduate students.
Those interested in presenting should send abstracts of individual papers or original work or proposals for complete sessions by April 19, 2013, to the program chair at the following address:
Dr. Jeremy Larance
Assistant Professor of English
West Liberty University
Department of Humanities
West Liberty, WV 26074
Phone: 303-336-8195
Submissions (preferably electronic) must include presenter's name, phone number, postal and e-mail addresses, paper title, and a 250-word abstract. (Abstracts are mandatory since they create post conference proceedings.) Indicate the type of presentation as critical study, fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry. Please indicate any requests for technology (audio, video, etc.). Individual proposals may, but are not required to, include suggestions for possible panel placement.
