Illinois State University student teacher Alexa Leyba writes about her passion for working in Chicago Public Schools, where her education began.
Chicago native returns to her roots through student teaching
Unit: English
Hitchcock target of Six Week Film School
Bill McBride and the Normal Theater will offer the Six Week Film School this spring, dedicating the series to the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
Research Initiative awards announced
Allison Harris, Paul Ugor, Geoffrey Duce, Tina Thompson, Liangcheng Yang, and Carla Pohl will be honored with Research Initiative Awards at the Founders Day celebration on February 16.
Authors, poets in Euphemism to give reading, December 2
Authors, poets, and artists featured in the Fall 2016 edition of Euphemism will give a reading at 6:30 p.m. Friday, December 2, on Stevenson Hall, room 401.
QUEERtalks looks at rural America, December 5
QUEERtalks will welcome Carly Thomsen who will discuss her research with LGBTQ-identified people living in the rural Midwest.
Film School concludes with free screening of Chinatown
William Thomas McBride from the Department of English concludes his Six Week Film School on Wednesday, November 16, at the Normal Theater with Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown.”
Professor Susina talks with WGLT about Dylan’s Nobel Prize
Professor Jan Susina from the Department of English recently spoke on GLT’s Sound Ideas about musician Bob Dylan’s recent Noble Prize.
Fisher Outstanding Thesis awards announced
The results of the 2016-2017 James L. Fisher Outstanding Thesis Award Competition have been announced.
Bilingual poetry reading, November 4
A bilingual poetry reading from author Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and editor and translator Katherine Hedeen will be at 7 p.m. Friday, November 4, in the Publications Unit at 106 Williams Hall Annex, on the campus of Illinois State University. Núñez and Hedeen will read from their new en face poetry collection, tasks. The book tasks
Into the postmodern woods: McLaughlin book explores Sondheim
Robert McLaughlin links musical theatre to postmodernists in his new book, “Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical.”
