Salisbury reviews Butler's The Language of Abuse

Eve Salisbury recently reviewed Sara M. Butler's The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England (Brill, 2007), in the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire 44 (2009), pp. 507-508.

Bonnie Jo Campbell, MFA

Bonnie Jo Campbell is a fiction finalist again--this time by the National Book Critics Circle Award, announced Saturday at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York. The Awards are given annually by the critics' group and will be handed out March 11. It was for her novel American Salvage.

Salisbury on "Gower's Wife, Prostitution, and the Confessio Amantis"

Eve Salisbury’s essay, “Promiscuous Contexts: Gower’s Wife, Prostitution, and the Confessio Amantis,” has been published by Brepols in a collection entitled John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, and Contexts, edited by Malte Urban of Queen’s University Belfast.

Gary McDowell wins Orphic Prize for Poetry

Dream Horse Press is proud to announce that Gary L. McDowell's manuscript, American Amen, has won the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry and will be published in late 2010.  Check out the press at http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/dhp.html.  Gary is also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice due out from Rose Metal Press in early 2010.  He has poems forthcoming in The Laurel Review, Indiana Review, Reed, Lumina, Parthenon West Review, Gargoyle, Barn Owl Review, Cider Press Review, and others.  Gary is a third year PhD student at WMU studying poetry and American Literature.  He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife and young son, Auden.

English participates in Teaching MLK & Civil Rights event

TODAY: You are invited to a free workshop sponsored by the WMU MLK Committee and the departments of English, History, and the College of Education:

"Teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in 2010"

Thursday, Jan. 21 from 4:00 to 5:30 in 2302 Sangren

This workshop is dedicated to helping future teachers at all grade levels and in all content areas continue the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by addressing civil rights, inequality, racism, poverty and world peace in their curriculum.  See our website: www.TeachMLK.com

Program:

3:40 Book table & Free materials for all participants from Rethinking Schools
4:00 Plenary Session:  2302 Sangren Hall
 
Welcome: “Martin Luther King, Jr., The Civil Rights Movement, and K-12 Classrooms Today” 
Dr. Allen Webb [ENGLISH DEPT.]

 Keynote: “Acting White?  Fostering School Success of Students of Color & Students in Poverty”
    Dr. Linwood Cousins
 
4:45 Breakout Sessions: “Engaging Issues of Social Justice Through Young Adult Literature”
    Dr. Gwen Tarbox [ENGLISH DEPT.] 3311 Sangren

    "Art, Drama and Poverty: Empowering Students to Address the Real Issues in their Lives and Community" Chris Measaros, Bangor Public Schools, 2302 Sangren

    “Civil Rights in a Global Context” Dr. Ed Martini, 2219 Sangren

    “Teaching about the Middle East Conflicts”, Shadia Kanaan, Palestinian peace activist, Dr. Allen Webb [ENGLISH DEPT.], Virginia Shedd, 2201 Sangren

    “Continuing the Conversation: Science and Math Success for Students in Poverty” Dr. Linwood Cousins, 3309 Sangren

    “Discussing Race in the Classroom”, Jennifer Heymoss, Kalamazoo Central High School, 3207 Sangren

    “African American English and Linguistics in the Classroom”, Dr. Lisa Minnick, Sarah Hercula [both ENGLISH DEPT.] 2205 Sangren