MCLA English & Communications Department

English & Communications department at MCLA. Literature, writing, film, journalism, and more. Follow for important updates and exciting opportunities!

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UPDATE: our Hardman Lecture has been moved to the CSI Atrium! Be there this Thursday, November 16th, at 7:00 PM to see our guest lecturer, Caleb Gayle, as he speaks about race, culture, ethnicity, and identity, as well as careers in the writing industry!

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Check out our latest post over on Instagram - our second student feature of the semester, Pablo Calderon! Pablo will fill you in on other paths through the English major as well as other on-campus offerings!

https://t.co/L0Ly9doQSF

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For our first post after a long hiatus, check out our first student feature of the semester over on Instagram! Learn about the Eng&Comms department, our opportunities, and what our students are up to!

https://t.co/iXd2q05QUu

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[Dorothy, a publishing project @DorothyProject]

Caren Beilin's REVENGE OF THE SCAPEGOAT won the Vermont Book Award for fiction last night! Yay, Caren! Yay, REVENGE! 🥳🐐

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Everyone was out in the millions for a reading with poet RAGE HEZEKIAH and the two winners of the Senior Writing Contest: LIZA MARSALA and HANNAH YEASLEY with outstanding intros from CORIN CARPENTER and GABBI OSOWIECKI. Thought-provoking, and stunning work from all.

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Tonight! Join English Professor Jenna Sciuto as she kicks off the Mind's Eye Works-in-Progress Colloquium today. Van transportation is available: please meet at 5:15pm behind Bowman Hall.

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Opened yesterday, Dec 8th! Waiting Room -- an immersive art installation about the pandemic created by the students of Dr. Papa's Fall '22 Creativity & Survival course at @mcla_edu.

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English majors Egypt Benjamin and Salimatu Bah led a fascinating and well-attended workshop for this year's Day of Dialogue, "Land, Spirituality, and Identity: A Conversation About Our Experiences as People of Color." Congrats, Egypt and Sali!

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The English & Communications Department welcomes back to campus over a dozen alumni who studied Creative Writing at MCLA. Please join us Tuesday Nov 8 at 6 pm in Murdock 218 to listen to their work and to hear stories about what they've been doing post-graduation. Refreshments.

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Dr. Beilin will be presenting her fiction at this special event in Boston for AGNI Magazine. Participate from the Berkshires by attending digitally!

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Survivors and allies are invited to 60 Porter St. this evening at 7pm for a student-led event. Come share creative writing around this topic in a supportive space.❤️

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This is tomorrow night! 6pm ET! Virtual! Free!

Register with the Cambridge Public Library:
https://t.co/YynT8sBF0E

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Last week, Professor Jenna Sciuto joined a group of international Faulkner scholars at the Faulkner's France conference held in Amiens, France. She presented on depictions of language and history in novels by William Faulkner and Guinean novelist Tierno Monénembo.

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Professor Caren Beilin's prose writing class, featured here, on a cloudy-- and most excellent-- day at The Clark Art Museum (cows included).

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Come hear your English & Communications professors talk about the courses they're teaching next semester in a conversational setting! Join members of the English & Communications faculty at 60 Porter Street for our Spring Course Preview event, from 1:00-1:50, Monday, Oct. 17.

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Global Film Series is backkkk!
Please join us on Oct. 27th at 7pm in Sullivan Lounge for a screening of *We Carry It Within Us,* an award-winning documentary about Danish colonialism. There will be snacks!

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Tonight is the night! See you at Visiting Writer Mary-Kim Arnold's reading, 7pm in Murdock 218. Come for the incendiary, illuminating, and awesome poetry, stay for the snacks :)

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Liza Marsala, MCLA senior and Full Stop Magazine intern, is now published there! Check out her excellent piece. @fullstopmag
https://t.co/b0okFrGIa1

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Announcing our judge for this year's Senior Writing Contest! Everybody, meet poet Rage Hezekiah!

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DURING THE OCCUPATION we all eat fruit / of the poisoned dirt / What is history if not the breath / of the damned rising up?
- Mary-Kim Arnold, this semester's Visiting Writer
Join us on October 11th