English Department News

POETRY MATTERS. CHARLES CRUPI MATTERS.

Please join the English Department in celebrating the joy of poetry and the memory of Charles Crupi, one of Albion’s finest teachers and colleagues.

On 20 April 2012 at 4:45pm in the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, we will be hosting a celebration of the first annual Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest (formerly, the Michigan High School Poetry Contest).

The festivities will begin at 4:45pm with mingling and refreshments. At 5:00pm, we will adjourn to the Bobbitt auditorium for a more formal ceremony, involving toasts and poems and acknowledgements. For more information, please visit the English Department’s blog: http://campus.albion.edu/english/.

Reading by 2011 GLCA New Writers Fiction Award Winner Goldie Goldbloom

Fiction Reading
Goldie Goldbloom

Monday, March 26, 2012
Wendell Will Room
5:00 PM

Goldie Goldbloom is the author of Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders (New Issues Press) and You Lose These and other stories (Fremantle Press). Her short fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, StoryQuarterly, and Prairie Schooner, and was anthologized in The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Windy City Queer; her non-fiction was anthologized in the Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires. She earned an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Born in Western Australia, Goldbloom currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her eight children and her cat. Visit her online at http://www.goldiegoldbloom.com/.

A reception and book-signing will immediately follow the reading.

Co-sponsored by the English Department and Stockwell-Mudd Library.

All events in the Albion College Reading Series are free and open to the public.

JOBS in ENGLISH panel!

The English Department will be hosting another panel for our Majors and Minors–this one on JOBS in ENGLISH-related fields.

Ever wondered what you can do with an English Major, other than read and interpret literature? We’ll tell you!

When? Wednesday, March 21, 5:00 PM

Where? Bobbitt Auditorium

Guest Speaker SUSAN DE LA VERGNE is coming to Campus!

Susan de la Vergne will be visiting our campus on 14-15 March. An English major and business leader, she aims to help you, students of the liberal arts, see the important connections between the work you are doing now and the work the business world requires and rewards. Her visit is part of an effort to help you identify and find language to describe the skills and competencies you have precisely because of the kind of education you are getting and, equally important, to help you see why those skills and competencies matter so much. 

We hope you will join us for her lecture entitled “Nothing Prepares You for Leadership Like the Liberal Arts” on 14 March at 7pm in Towsley Lecture Hall (101 Norris).

For more information about Susan and her visit, please check out our blog: http://campus.albion.edu/english/.