Events

Was Richard II Really a Tyrant?

In October 2007, Terry Jones, scholar of medieval literature, film-writer, actor, director and founding member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus made his second visit from London to lecture, give workshops and spend time with students.This event was absolutely a highlight of the fall term. See the media gallery for clips of Terry Jones' visit.

News

Jonathan Fink won this year's Editors' Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review.  The Editors' Prize is a contest for a selection of ten pages of unpublished poetry and it carries a publication prize of the winning work, a prize reading at the University of Missouri and a cash prize of $3000. Here's a link to the award announcement:
http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/?p=338

Regina Sakalarios-Rogers, English and Foreign Languages, had her story, "Pillaged," published by "Toasted Cheese" online, a highly ranked online literary publication. The story was also recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, which is the most honored literary project in America. The story has now also been nominated for the 2007 storySouth Million Writers Award .  It is an award for the best online fiction.  There is more information at this link: http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters.html.