English Festival XIV

April 27-May 1, 2009

INTERACTIVE ENGLISH FEST:
We Know How To Turn You On
. . . to English!

 

3rd Annual UWEC

International Poetry Reading

(click to view poster)

 

Get your English Festival T-shirt

$12 at the English Office, 405 Hibbard

Click HERE to view the design.

 

 

From APRIL 27 - MAY 1, the Badger Room in Davies Center is ENGLISH FESTIVAL CENTRAL
Poster Displays
Fest T-Shirts
Games: Scrabble, Catch Phrase, Word Play Games
AND
English Fest Interactive Game: “The Raven Redone” (Charles Payseur)
The Badger Room (just off the Skylight Lounge on the second floor of Davies) will be FEST CENTRAL during English Festival XIV.
COME JOIN THE FUN!

The English Festival is a week-long campus wide language arts conference.  It is comprised of student and faculty presentations on all topics surrounding cultural studies, linguistics, theory, and of course literatures in English.  In addition to panels by students and faculty, this annual event features visiting writers as well as regional ones, a children’s writing contest and reading, and live music & slam poetry on the campus mall. For more info on our organization please click the "About Us" button on the left.

Title for 2007 was Literary Comma-Sutra: Let Language Touch You 2007 Program Available 2007 Guest Speaker: Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Macalester College, in Saint Paul. After completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1989, he moved to the Department of English at the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor and its MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Baxter is the author of 4 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 3 collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction and is the editor of other works.

He read on Tuesday, May 1, in the Davies Theater, 7-8:30. On Wednesday, May 2, from 10:30-12 he gave a talk on "The Erotic In Literature" in the Davies Theater.

 

Meetings held every Thursday, 6:00 p.m. in the Hibbard.

Join a committee and participate in one of the largest literary festivals in the region! Participants can get credit for their work either in the form of credits or can fulfill their service learning requirements. Of course you can always be a part of the English Festival just for fun.

 

 

GET INVOLVED in ENGLISHFEST 2010

Enroll in English 398:  English Practicum.  You can receive 1 or 2 credits at a time for fall and/or spring semester.   See Cathy J Rex in Hibbard 411 for permission to enroll, or email rexcj@uwec.edu