Penn State English

Head to Dublin, Galway, and The Burren this summer (6/19-7/22) with #pennstateenglish & @psuarts_arch. There’ll be workshops in dyeing, craft, art, farming, and poetry through the lens of sustainability. Students can earn 9 credits at the Gen Ed level or for upper-level courses.

Instagram followers will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite banned books each day. The books that receive the most votes move on in the bracket. By the end of the semester, we will have a winner! 📖 Every book has a place on our shelves #bannedbookfridays

Mark your calendars because after break, we will be hosting Banned Book Madness! The voting will occur on the PSU English Department's Instagram Stories beginning Monday, Nov. 28 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

Today, we are sharing a new initiative: exploring graduate students’ dissertations within the English Department! Here, we introduce you to Pheolyn Allen! Watch the video to learn more about their dissertations ideas and research through the form of an elevator pitch!

🧊A great read on fieldwork, polar-region humanities, Academic Twitter, and several other topics. 🧊

Happening tonight! #GraphicNovel

🆕 Introducing… a new initiative! In this initiative, we are going to be highlighting current graduate students’ dissertations within the English department! Be on the lookout 👀 as our first highlight rolls out tomorrow! #grad #english #elevatorpitch

Look out! Micha McConnell is taking over our Instagram account. Follow along as @itsmichaeltm shares their @PennStateEnglish experience.

Spring Course! ENGL 487W: Travel to the ends of the earth in the senior seminar Literature of Polar Voyaging with @HesterBlum! Students will read speculative hollow earth fiction, poetry, expedition narratives, and other journeys to the North and South pole. @PSULiberalArts

“Make a plan, stay organized, and achieve your goals!”–Julius Ludena (@juliuspsu21), an undergraduate student majoring in @EnglishatPSU #PSUFirstGen

“As my first semester goes on, I’m learning that it’s okay to ask people for help, even though I’m the first generation in my family to attend college.” –Sierra Auman, a first-year student majoring in @EnglishatPSU @PSU_Success @PSU_Undergrad @penn_state #PSUFirstGen

For our last Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📙 Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere The text has been banned in some regions of South Africa, Latin America, and even in Arizona 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

For our next Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📘 No Easy Walk to Freedom featuring writing by Nelson Mandela Every book has a place on our shelves 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

For our first Banned Book Friday recommendation of the week, we have... 📕 Beloved by Toni Morrison Reasons for the book challenges include LGBTQIA+ content, themes of race, and divisive language 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

The Department of English houses a 5-year integrated undergraduate–graduate program in creative writing. On Friday, 11/11, 6-7pm, creative writing faculty and current BA/MA students will host an informational meeting in 102 Burrowes. More information here: creativewriting.psu.edu/2022/10/26/ba-…

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series continues tomorrow, November 8 at 6:00pm, with novelist Stephen Graham Jones. The reading will be in Foster Auditorium, @psulibs, and is free and open to the public. 🎤 creativewriting.psu.edu/2022/10/17/mar… @PSULiberalArts

Spring Course! What did liberty mean to writers and readers in the early modern period? One of our greatest English poets, John Milton, redefined the meanings of political, domestic, and religious liberty as he lived through an age of revolution. 16th – 18th Century Time Period.

For our second Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📙 Divergent by Veronica Roth This YA book was challenged for content featuring violence, death, and resisting authority. 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

For our first Banned Book Friday recommendation this week, we have... 📕 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov This book was challenged for sexually explicit content 📚 #bannedbookfridays #pennstateenglish

@docmoodyturner Dr. Moody-Turner is also the founding co-director for the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk, founding co-director of the Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program, and a co-prinicipal investigator of the Penn State/Mellon "Just Transformations”. @DigBlk @ARCPennState

For our next Humans of the English Department spotlight: Shirley Moody-Turner, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies! @docmoodyturner