Poetry Slam Champ to Read Works Feb. 6

Patricia Smith, Pushcart Prize winner and four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, will read some of her works at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in UALR’s Fine Arts Building. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.

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New Fall Course to Explore Black Women’s Activism

UALR’s Department of English will offer a new course this fall that will explore how black women’s political activism is reflected in 19th and 20th century literature. Continue reading “New Fall Course to Explore Black Women’s Activism”

Cooper Scholars Present Projects

The Cooper Winter Colloquium, celebrating the final projects of English Honors program graduates, will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in Ledbetter Hall B in the Donaghey Student Center.

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Lecture Discusses ‘Humanities on Life Support’

Dr. Matthew Abraham, a fellow in the DePaul University Humanities Center who is focused on the continued relevance of the humanities within the contemporary university, will speak at UALR Tuesday, Nov. 22, at an event sponsored by the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program in English.

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Author Brockmeier to Read Sept. 20

UALR’s Departments of English and Rhetoric and Writing will sponsor a reading by Kevin Brockmeier, author of “The Illumination,” “The Brief History of the Dead,” and “The Truth about Celia,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building.

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Shakespearean Scholar to Lecture April 20

English scholar Dr. Peter J. Smith of Nottingham Trent University will present a lecture, “Something Rich and Strange: The Tempest and the Magic of Authority,” at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in the Arkla Room in Ross Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Literary Critic Discusses Revising the Classics April 4

UALR’s Department of English and the Cooper Honors Program in English will host lecture by University of Delaware Professor Thomas Leitch, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: Revising the Classics,” about the adaptions of classic written texts at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, in Ledbetter Hall Room C in the Donaghey Student Center.

The event is part of the Cooper Program’s special seminar “Twicetold Tales.” The event and a reception that follows are free and open to the public.

Leitch, a literary critic and film studies specialist, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is director of the concentration in Film Studies at Delaware. He teaches courses in American film, as well as literary and cultural theory.

Since 1989, Leitch has reviewed mystery and suspense novels for Kirkus Reviews, where he is senior editor. He has published articles on Charles Dickens, Henry James, Donald Barthelme, and Hollywood genres from musicals to whodunits to slasher films.

His books include “What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation,” “Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games,” “The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock, Crime Films and Perry Mason,” and “Film Adaptation and Its Discontents.” He is a past president of the Literature/Film Association.

For more information about Leitch’s lecture, contact the English Department at 501-569-3161.

English Dept. Offers Magazine Workshop

Carol Ann Fitzgerald, managing editor of The Oxford  American, will present her lecture, “How to Pitch, Write, and Work for Magazines” at 3 p.m.  Tuesday, March 8, in UALR’s Ross Hall 123.

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Honors Council Recognizes Ramsey

Dr. C. Earl Ramsey, director of UALR’s Donaghey Scholars Program and professor of English, was recognized at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council of the Great Plains Chapter of the National Collegiate Honors Council for his work, “promoting honors education for over two decades.”