Shehabat wins Travel Award

PhD student Abdullah Shehabat is the recipient of a competitive Graduate College Travel Award for presenting a paper, “Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: A Different Perspective of Alienation” at Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan, in October.

Playwright Rebecca Gilman Presents Her Work: Fall 2010 Gwen Frostic Reading Series

We welcome you to join us for our final reading of the Fall 2010 Gwen Frostic Reading Series. We’re honored to have playwright Rebecca Gilman read who will be presenting one of her plays this Thursday, Dec. 9th. The reading will take place at the WMU Bernhard Center, in room 157-158, starting at 8:00 PM. We look forward to seeing you there.

Four English Faculty Are Granted Sabbatical Leaves

It is my pleasure to announce that the following colleagues have been granted sabbaticals by Provost Greene:

Tony Ellis (AY 2011-212)
Lisa Minnick (Spring 2012)
Mustafa Mirzeler (Spring 2012)
Jana Schulman (AY 2011-2012)

Drs. Ellis, Minnick, Mirzeler, and Schulman will be working on scholarly projects during their leaves and bring additional recognition and experience to Western Michigan University, English Department, and their future classroom assignments.

Third Coast Magazine Featured in The Writer

Our Third Coast Magazine is currently featured in the section "Literary Spotlight" of The Writer (January 2011 issue, p. 46) as one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres.
BTW, Third Coast's current, Fall 2010, issue features a Symposium on Writing and the Midwest. Check it out!

                                                    

The Kalamazoo Public Library Presents 
Deborah Ann Percy 
Reading from her new collection 
Cool Front: Stories from Lake Michigan 
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 
7 pm - 8:30 pm
315 S Rose St
Kalamazoo MI 49007
Phone 269-342-9837 
March Street Press, ISBN 1-59661-146-44, $15 
www.marchstreetpress.com

The smell of sunshine on sweet water permeates these stories, all set in Michigan's Lake Country.—Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow, author of I Sailed with Magellan // Sand, water, sky are the elements here, edgy is the writing, perfect pitch the dialogue. —Alicia Ostriker, twice National Book Award finalist, author of No Heaven // The waters of Lake Michigan flow through Deborah Ann Percy's veins and into every word she puts on the page in this compelling collection of stories. —Robert Eversz, Nero Award nominee, author of Zero to the Bone // This is fine writing by a storyteller at the top of her game —Richard Katrovas, founding director of the Prague Summer Program, author of The Years of Smashing Bricks and Prague Winter