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Winter 2010 Newsletter

From the Chair

• A Department of Distinction

  What the CLA 2015 Report means for English December 7th, 2010

Features

• A Home for English

  Pillsbury Hall has been designated for the Department of English December 7th, 2010

• Commencing the Next Stage: Beverly Atkinson

  Celebrating the career of undergraduate adviser and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Atkinson, who retired in May, 2010 December 7th, 2010

• Commencing the Next Stage: Michael Dennis Browne

  Celebrating the career of Professor Emeritus Michael Dennis Browne, who retired in May, 2010 December 7th, 2010

• Commencing the Next Stage: Edward Griffin

  Celebrating the career of Professor Emeritus Edward Griffin, who retired in May, 2010 December 7th, 2010

• Swift Water

  Newly named Distinguished McKnight University Professor John Watkins December 7th, 2010

• I Will Dare

  BA alumnus Scott Z. Burns rocks Hollywood December 7th, 2010

• Learning to Live

  CLA Fall Commencement Speaker Moira Pirsch describes how she "came alive" at the University December 7th, 2010

• Focus on Faculty: Omise'eke Tinsley

  Associate Professor Tinsley looks at same-sex desire in Caribbean literature December 7th, 2010

• Focus on Alumnae/i: Marilyn Nelson

  Nelson (PhD 1979) is on a mission to make poetry accessible December 7th, 2010

• Focus on Alumnae/i: Elizabeth Weixel

  The Graduate School's "Best Dissertation in the Arts & Humanities" winner December 7th, 2010

Creative Writing Program

• Pioneering Fiction

  MFA alumna Swati Avasthi elevates the young adult novel December 7th, 2010

• Zipline Poetry

  Poet Joanna Rawson is the 2010-11 Minnesota Writer of Distinction December 7th, 2010

• MFA Student News

  December 7th, 2010

• MFA Alumnae/i News

  December 7th, 2010

Supporting English

• Success, with Your Help

  Introducing CLA development officer Kevin Parker December 7th, 2010

News

• Farah in Residence

  Introducing 2010-12 CLA Winton Chair Nuruddin Farah December 7th, 2010

• Dissertations Awarded 2009-10

  December 7th, 2010

• PhD Student News

  December 7th, 2010

• PhD Alumnae/i News

  December 7th, 2010

• Scholarship Awards

  December 7th, 2010

• BA Alumnae/i News

  December 7th, 2010

• Faculty News

  December 7th, 2010

Events Calendar

• Save the Date: Joan Didion

  Join us at the 10th Anniversary Esther Freier Endowed Lecture April 13, 2011 December 7th, 2010