Book of the Month
"A novel of ideas examining two 'tribal' societies: the colonized island of New Ulster in Papua New Guinea and Laird’s native Northern Ireland."
Nick Laird was the Gerson Irish Reader on April 9.
—Mary Burke, Professor of English; Honors Program Director;
Irish Concentration Coordinator
Why Study English?
"Heads up, business majors: Employers are newly hot on the trail of hires with liberal arts and humanities degrees.
Class of 2015 graduates from those disciplines are employed at higher rates than their cohorts in the class of 2014, and starting salaries rose significantly, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers' annual first-destination survey of recent graduates in the workforce."
Read the rest of this article and see more arguments for studying English.
Upcoming Events
-
Jun
25
ECE English Summer Institute9:00am
ECE English Summer Institute
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Hartford Campus Hartford Times Building
UConn’s First-Year Writing Program is putting more attention on multimodal composition as an essential part of the FYW experience, and this year’s ECE English Summer Institute is designed to help ECE instructors respond to this challenge. The three-day seminar and workshop will feature current scholarship and practices in multimodal composition and provide a supportive, collaborative environment for experiments with classroom applications of this work. Each day will have a new focus (e.g., “Using Sound in Composition Courses”), and we will also examine the UConn-specific goals for multimodal composition in FYW along the way. Register at: http://shorturl.at/wzHJ3 -
Jun
26
ECE English Summer Institute9:00am
ECE English Summer Institute
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Hartford Campus Hartford Times Building
UConn’s First-Year Writing Program is putting more attention on multimodal composition as an essential part of the FYW experience, and this year’s ECE English Summer Institute is designed to help ECE instructors respond to this challenge. The three-day seminar and workshop will feature current scholarship and practices in multimodal composition and provide a supportive, collaborative environment for experiments with classroom applications of this work. Each day will have a new focus (e.g., “Using Sound in Composition Courses”), and we will also examine the UConn-specific goals for multimodal composition in FYW along the way. Register at: http://shorturl.at/wzHJ3 -
Jun
26
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue12:15pm
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Join Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison, for 30 minutes of close looking and discussion focused on a single artwork in the Benton's collection.
The discussion will focus on the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program broadsides in the exhibition "Counterproof Press: Collaborations".
Develop your critical thinking skills by learning to look at objects with a critical eye. This skill can be transferred to navigating everyday life, your job or studies. -
Jun
27
ECE English Summer Institute9:00am
ECE English Summer Institute
Thursday, June 27th, 2019
09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Hartford Campus Hartford Times Building
UConn’s First-Year Writing Program is putting more attention on multimodal composition as an essential part of the FYW experience, and this year’s ECE English Summer Institute is designed to help ECE instructors respond to this challenge. The three-day seminar and workshop will feature current scholarship and practices in multimodal composition and provide a supportive, collaborative environment for experiments with classroom applications of this work. Each day will have a new focus (e.g., “Using Sound in Composition Courses”), and we will also examine the UConn-specific goals for multimodal composition in FYW along the way. Register at: http://shorturl.at/wzHJ3 -
Sep
25
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Daniel Cohen4:00pm
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Daniel Cohen
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor
Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memories in America’s Civil War Generation” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event. -
Sep
27
Conference for Secondary School Writing Centers8:30am
Conference for Secondary School Writing Centers
Friday, September 27th, 2019
08:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Storrs Campus Student Union Theater
Our conference is designed for middle and high school teachers and students who are interested in starting or maintaining peer-based writing centers in their schools. We will feature presentations by schools that have successfully developed peer writing centers and interactive workshops for students and teachers. We encourage participation at all stages of the writing center process, from newly interested to veteran schools. Go to: http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/high-school-outreach/ for more information. -
Oct
16
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Kornel Chang4:00pm
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Kornel Chang
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor
Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “The Lost Dreams of Liberation: A Story of Decolonization in U.S.-Occupied Korea, 1945-1948” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.
Letters About Literature
The English Department, Connecticut Writing Project, and Neag School of Education are the CT sponsors for this Library of Congress writing competition for grades 4-12.
Professors are People Too
Ali Oshinskie ('17) interviews professors for a podcast series, "Professors are People Too." Read the transcripts to her introduction and interviews, and listen to the podcast on WHUS.