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We are proud to present a short video that introduces our department: our goals,
aspirations, and values as an academic community. To watch, please
click on the still image from the film to the right. We hope you enjoy it! |
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Our mission statement:
Language is at the heart of our humanity. It informs who we are, what we do, and what we want our lives to be about.
To that end, the Department of English Language and Literature offers a community of scholars and writers who study literature,
the teaching of English, the teaching of English as a second language (TESOL), creative writing, professional writing,
and film studies. These programs facilitate learning that immerses all members of the department community in transactions
with language. This focus cultivates a deeper understanding of ourselves and others, fosters a critical and creative engagement
with language and literature, and allows teachers, scholars, writers, and professionals to emerge as individuals capable of
contending with the complexities of our world.
We would welcome responses or feedback via e-mail.
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The English department has a Facebook! Click on the following links to access our Facebook sites.
English Language and Literature, U of Northern Iowa
University of Northern Iowa Professional Writing Program
UNI Creative Writers - Past, Present, & Future
English at UNI Magazine
See you there!
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In response to many requests for a department newsletter, we proudly announce the first issue of English at UNI,
our new online magazine for everyone interested in what we're up to here in "English at UNI"!
Click here to
download your own PDF copy. Enjoy!
Congratulations and many thanks to the staff of English at UNI,
led by student Deidre Cave (managing editor) and Professor Adrienne Lamberti (faculty advisor).
They would welcome your feedback at
<EnglishAtUNI@uni.edu>.
For more background on the magazine, click here.
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Professor Jeremy Schraffenberger's
first book, St. Joe's Passion,
recently appeared from Etruscan Press.
Charles Martin says, "J. D. Schraffenberger's first collection is an often dazzling projection of masks over
and under other masks, voices parodying other voices, or interrupting them, or guiding them into unanticipated
channels, as though these poems were randomly selected in a still-evolving script. It isn't easy to say exactly
what it all adds up to, but the adventurous reader should find the journey never less than engaging. The other
kind need not apply."
Click here for St. Joe's Passion on Facebook.
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Professor Adrienne Lamberti recently published
her first book, Talking
the Talk: Revolution in Agricultural Communication
(Nova Science Publishers).
This publication is the result of a study of an Iowa State
Extension program, the Beginning Farmer Center, and the publications
the Center produced over a two-year span. Talking the Talk
fuses ethnographic research in professional communication
with narratives by members of agrarian communities throughout
Iowa.
Click here for Talking the Talk on Facebook.
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Professor Vince Gotera's third poetry collection, Fighting
Kite, was recently published by Pecan Grove Press
in San Antonio, Texas. This collection is Vince's second book
with Pecan Grove Press; the first was Dragonfly, also a book of poems.
Annie Finch says, "The skillfully interwoven lines in
Vince Gotera's Fighting Kite — tightly gripping
couplets, wryly sprawling sestinas, eerie terza rima —
stay ever alert to the echoes and dashes of language. Subtle
in musc and vivid in imagery, these poems spin honest tales
that spell out hard and important truths of the pain and pride
between father and son."
Click here for Fighting Kite on Facebook.
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Professor Jeffrey S. Copeland, head of the English Department, recently
published Inman's War: A Soldier's Story of Life in a Colored
Battalion in WWII (Paragon House).
In the Introduction to the book, Dick Gregory calls Inman's
War a "magnificent slice of [American] history."
Noted author Sally Walker says, "Jeffrey Copeland discovered
hidden treasure when he found a suitcase full of letters written
during WWII. Inman's War, which is based on those
letters, is a wonderful read, filled with laughter, tears,
anger, love, and friendship."
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Professor Grant Tracey's book
Playing Mac: A Novella in Two Acts And Other Scenes recently appeared
from Pocol Press in Virginia. This collection of fiction, Tracey's
second, joins his previous collection, Parallel Lines and the Hockey
Universe, also from Pocol Press.
Robert McBrearty praises Playing Mac: "Stan Traicheff steps onto the stage, a flawed but
well-meaning, memorable, and engaging character who has the courage to turn away from the dead end life
awaiting him. Grant Tracey is a compelling, honest, and compassionate writer."
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We are happy to announce the publication of Notes from the
Flyover, a Festschrift in honor of Professor Barbara
Lounsberry, who recently retired. The book, published by the
North American Review Press, anthologizes creative
nonfiction, fiction, literary criticism, and poetry by Lounsberry's
former students and colleagues, including Salma Akbar, John
Bresland, Grace Ann and Theodore Hovet, Nancy Price, Alice
Swensen, Gay Talese, and others.
Notes from the Flyover is edited by English professors
Grant Tracey and Scott Cawelti as well as Ron Sandvik, Managing
Editor of the North American Review.
The book may be purchased for $13.95 at local bookstores as well
as directly from the North American Review:
by e-mail at <nar@uni.edu>
or by phone at (319) 273-6455.
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The Iowa Writing Project — a summer program for teachers — is alive and well
at the University of Northern Iowa. For further information, please consult our
Iowa Writing Project website.
We look forward to your joining us this summer!
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Students: want to learn about finding a job and career? Check out UNI Career Services' webpage titled
Job Search Guides for Educators.
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Applying for graduate school? For some helpful advice, look at
Professor Vince Gotera's online articles on this subject:
How to Get Great Recommendations
How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose
The Grad School Letter Arrives ... Now What?
Are there other topics you would like addressed in similar articles? Click
here to let Professor Gotera know. Thanks!
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Department of English Language and Literature
117 Baker Hall
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls IA 50614-0502
Telephone: (319) 273-2821
Fax: (319) 273-5807
E-mail: english@sunny.uni.edu
Last Updated:
09-Nov-2009
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