QUEERtalks will welcome Carly Thomsen who will discuss her research with LGBTQ-identified people living in the rural Midwest.
QUEERtalks looks at rural America, December 5
Unit: English
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.”
National reading of It Can’t Happen Here, October 24
Illinois State University will take part in the national reading of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis on October 24.
Tim Hunt to give reading from new poetry book
A book launch for Tim Hunt’s new work, Poem’s Poems & Other Poems will be 7 p.m. September 29, at the Normal Public Library.
CAS boasts eight Bone Scholars
Eight students with majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been named 2016-2017 Robert G. Bone Scholars at Illinois State University. They are William Darrow, chemistry and mathematics; Jackie Durnil, communication sciences and disorders; Alexis Econie, sociology and communication; Nora Fredstrom, health sciences and chemistry; Adrianne Howe, psychology; Lauren Koszyk, music and
Six win 2015-2016 CAS Excellence Awards
Six members of the College of Arts and Sciences were presented with 2015-2016 Excellence Awards at the Dean’s Fall Address and Awards Ceremony on September 13. Professor Maria Schmeeckle, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, won the John A. Dossey Award for Outstanding Teaching by a tenured faculty member. Professor Allison Harris, Department of Physics, won
