Today at 5:00 PM is the deadline to register for Spring 2012 classes (except for some online and late-start classes). Undergraduates can still register through next Wednesday 1 February with instructor permission.

Attention undergraduate majors and minors in English!

The department wishes to remind you that now is the time to register for your 400-level major and minor elective courses for this coming semester.

After Wednesday the College of Liberal Arts will begin the process of deciding which of these courses to cancel on account of low enrollment.

If you have been postponing picking your courses for Spring 2012, please consider taking a few minutes to log on to MyNEVADA and do it now, before that ENG 4—class you wanted to take goes up in smoke.

If you have questions about which courses fit your remaining major or minor requirements, consult the lists embedded in the “Academic Requirements” report on your MyNEVADA student center, or email your academic advisor in English.

A Visit from poet Srikanth Reddy

Thursday, November 17^th: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

William Raggio Building 2006

 UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute and the UNR Department of English are pleased to present a reading by Srikanth Reddy

Srikanth Reddy, whose 2004 collection of poetry Facts for Visitors received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Mellon Foundation, will read from his work and answer questions afterwards. His latest collection Voyager was published by the University of California Press this year. His poems have appeared in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and Isn’t it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. His critical study Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

For more information contact Christopher Coake at cjcoake@unr.edu

The UNLV Black Mountain Institute and the UNR Department of English Present:

a visit from fiction writer Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson College.  Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When all the Water Leaves Us, was awarded the 2007 Dzanc Prize and published by Dzanc Books in 2009.  The collection was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, longlisted for the Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award.  Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV, among other publications.  She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and the 2009 Julia Peterkin Award.  Laura has taught writing at Emerson College, Grub Street, Gettysburg College, the Gilman School, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, and in PEN New England’s Freedom-to-Write Program.  She currently lives in Baltimore with the writer Paul Yoon, and is at work on a second collection of stories and a novel.  

Friday, Oct. 21st, 2011

Craft Talk:  4:30 – 5:30
Reading:  6:00 – 7:00

both events are in William Raggio Building 2006
University of Nevada, Reno

A Reading by Jeff Hoffman

Thursday, October 13th, 4:30 PM, GSU Graduate Student Lounge, 3^rd floor JCSU

Jeff Hoffman’s first book of poems, Journal of American Foreign Policy, was the winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize. Poems from the book have appeared in The New Republic, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, AGNI, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, as well as other journals, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best New Poets. From 2004 to 2006, Jeff was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

Jeff’s plays have won numerous awards and have been produced throughout the United States. Jeff’s screenplay Gandhi’s Big Sleep was a winner in the screenplay category at the Telluride Indiefest and was a quarterfinalist for the 2009 Nicholls Fellowship, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Aquarium Dancing was optioned by Don Most (Happy Days).

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Sponsored by the Hilliard Foundation and the English Department’s Public Occasions Committee

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM PRESENTS

How to Think About Graduate School

An informal pizza seminar

Friday, October 7th
Noon–2:00 p.m.
FH 109 (Seminar Room)

Dr. Stacy Burton is offering to help you think about graduate school and then put those thoughts into action. Having served multiple terms as chair of English as well as director of graduate studies, Professor Burton has mentored many new graduate students as well as new MAs and PhDs beginning their teaching and research careers. Undergraduate Studies in English will provide pizza, so bring yourself something to drink and learn about the next level in higher education. If you are thinking of graduate school at Nevada, or anywhere else, you will want to attend this informative session. You are welcome to leave after the first hour or arrive in time for the second hour of the seminar.

►First half (Noon-1:00)
     Deciding whether to go to graduate school

• What is your purpose?
• What kind of program would be a good choice?

 ►Second half (1:00-2:00)
     Planning wisely for the admission process

• How do you know where – and when – to apply?
• What is required in an application?
• What do graduate admissions committees look for in an applicant?

The UNR Creative Writing Club is
planning a writing retreat the weekend of Oct 7-9

The plan is to leave after work/school on Friday the 7th and drive up, staying Saturday and part of the day Sunday and driving back. The location is Sagehen Field Station, a research facility owned by UC Berkeley about 30 minutes north of Tahoe. There are toilet and shower facilities as well as a full kitchen, classrooms, and Wifi in the main building. There are several small heated cabins with bunk beds for us to stay in. The cost is $45 per person for the weekend. That is their cost. Bringing the food is up to us. We are working on donations, but once we see who all is interested, we may divide up food or assignments or lave it up to you to bring your own food for the weekend. There will be group writing and workshopping activities as well as solo writing time, and time on your own. There are places to hike and a lot of nature for peace and quiet. No dogs are allowed (sorry).

Please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in attending so I can get a head count for the cabins.

Angela Spires
President
UNR Creative Writing Club
addulaney@msn.com

Study Abroad 101 | Thurs, Sept 8th, 12-1pm (JCSU 324)

Wondering how to get started planning and preparing to study abroad? Come and find out.

Sabrina Harris
University Relations & Marketing Coordinator
sabrinaharris@unr.edu
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University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC)
University of Nevada, Reno/0323

A student group on campus is working to establish an undergraduate research journal within the College of Liberal Arts called The Montag. We are seeking student editors representing each major in the college to help with soliciting articles, reviewing and editing submissions, fundraising, and advertising. Contact Nick Weiland at The Montag if you are interested (themontag.unr@gmail.com) A description of the journal and goals of the project is below.

The mission of The Montag is to produce an academic journal using the submissions of students from the College of Liberal Arts that highlight contemporary social, political, or economic affairs in such a way that parallels the different authors’ respective areas of study.  The theme of the journal will be to emphasize the importance of seeking knowledge from different perspectives and to emphasize the importance of an education in the liberal arts in the sense that it provides the abilities necessary to effectively analyze global situations and cogently put these analyses on paper. The journal title is derived from Ray Bradbury’s protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag. This title is not only meant to symbolize the necessity to actively seek knowledge, but, in a higher degree, to actively seek knowledge that may be overshadowed by the appeal of more readily available perspectives.  Montag said, “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” This idea will play a role in deciding the content of The Montag. We seek to publish accessibly written, high quality work by undergraduate students that showcases the value of a liberal arts education and thoughtfully engages with the issues confronting humanity in the twenty-first century.

We appreciate your help. If you have questions or would like more information, contact:

 The Montag

Themontag.unr@gmail.com

Nick Weiland-Executive Editor

Dr. Greta de Jong-Faculty Advisor