St. Thomas’ 33rd Annual Sacred Arts Festival Features Artists and Authors, Movies and Musicians
This year’s festival features five events that will be held in April.
Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House Into our Home Sweet Home.
Author and assistant professor of English Matt Batt offers an excerpt from his debut book, Sugarhouse, and answers a few questions about his writing.
Author Larry Millett to Discuss His Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series Here Dec. 12
The lecture is sponsored by the university’s English Department, now home to the journal Victorian Periodicals Review and new courses on the Victorian era.
Academic Journals: Faculty Editors Find the Personal Growth Worth the Challenge
Each of the scholarly journals edited or published in the College of Arts and Sciences provides new information and exciting opportunities to the faculty who work on them.
Funeral Services for Patrick H. Lally, Longtime English Professor, Will be Held Nov. 8
For 37 years the Green Bay, Wis., native primarily taught American literature, including the novel since Word War II. He served under three university presidents, and also coached tennis.
St. Thomas Magazine and Writing in the Margins Win CASE Awards
St. Thomas magazine has won three gold and one silver award for excellence in the 2012 CASE V Awards contest.
English Department Announces 2012-13 Common Context
The English Department is pleased to announce “Work” as this year’s Common Context for its 100-level writing courses.
A Conversation With Dr. Matthew Batt and Dr. Leslie Miller
Batt's first published work, Sugarhouse, is his harrowing and often hilarious story of renovating a Salt Lake City crack house. Miller's Y, her sixth collection of poetry, "describes motherhood with a broad-ranging intelligence, a fierce humor, and an elegant, emotive poetic line," according to her publisher, Graywolf Press. Batt and Miller are faculty members in the English Department and will read from their works on Friday, Sept. 21.
Service-learning Pedagogy Presentations to Be Held Aug. 23
Speakers include Susan Callaway, English; Debra Peterson and Tim Scully, Communication and Journalism; Mike Klein, Justice and Peace Studies; Ernest Owens, Management; and Kimberly Vrudny, Theology.