Previous events in 2008-2009:
April 23, 2009: Undergraduate Creative Writing Student Reading
Series. 7:30 pm in the LookOut Gallery on the second floor of Snyder-Phillips. Featured readers were Liz Young, Kelly Caldwell, and Lia Greenwell.
April 16, 2009: Student Writers Night. The winners of our Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards presented their award -winning poetry. 7:30pm in the Main Library, room W449.
April 10, 2009: Screenwriter, Chuck Pfarrer presented "How to pitch a script". His works include Dark Man, Hard Target, Barb Wire, Jackal, Virus, and Red Planet. He also was the host of our departmental screenwriting contest winners and gave a talk entitled "Screenwriting Today".
March 30, 2009: "GLORY BOX" a performance by Tim Miller.
March 27, 2009: Critical Institutions, featured Prof. Dana Nelson (Vanderbilt University). This year's topic was : "The People."
March 26, 2009: Undergraduate Creative Writing Student Reading Series. 7:30 pm in Snyder-Phillips C203. Featured readers were seniors Kate House (poetry), Adam Holwerda (fiction), and Elizabeth Bohnhorst (nonfiction and poetry).
March 19, 2009: Richard McCann, poet, novelist, essayist (American University), read from his work.
February 26, 2009: Michael Awkward (University of Michigan). Sponsored by the Undergraduate English organization. MSU Union, Gold room, 7 pm.
February 19, 2009: Undergraduate Student Reading Series. Creative writing students read from their work. Featured writers: Ian Brown, Jill Kolongowski, Michael Lala.
February 20, 2009: Jo Ramaka, dir. Karmen Gei, screening and discussion.
February 12, 2009: Akira Mizuta Lippit (University of Southern California). Gave a Lecture on film studies.
November 14, 2008: David Madden, Cal State Sacramento, Pat O'Donnell, and Justus Nieland, "Writing the Future Canon."
October 28, 2008: Robin Silbergleid, Assistant Professor of English. Read from her poetry.
October 24-25, 2008: Early modern conference: "Criminallity, Liminality, and Imprisonment in the Early Modern Era."
October 17, 2008: David Clark, McMaster University. "Imagining Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy".
October 16, 2008, November 20, 2008 and February 19, 2009: Student writers read from their work.
October 7, 2008: Michael Kimball, novelist, read from his novel, Dear Everybody.


