If there’s one skill separating the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it’s the ability to successfully rewrite. Now, from MSU College of Arts & Letters alumnus Jack Epps Jr. (B.A. English ‘72) comes Screenwriting is Rewriting (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), a comprehensive guide that explores the many layers of rewriting. Epps is currently associate professor and chair of Writing for Screen & Television…
A College of Arts & Letters student was recognized for exhibiting diversity and inclusion in extraordinary ways as a recipient of one of the 2016 All-University Excellence in Diversity Awards. Joyce-Zoe Farley, a second-year doctoral student in African American and African Studies and University Fellow, received this year’s Making a Difference Through Artistic Expression Award by using her creative talents to artistically express…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIn35Xtyyg&feature=emb_title These days, Kyle Whyte is thinking about past and future generations. As a philosopher and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Whyte came to Michigan State University in the hope of addressing climate change and environmental issues, specifically within communities and tribal nations. Whyte, a professor and inaugural Timnick Chair in the Humanities within the MSU College of Arts & Letters,…
By Dean Christopher P. Long on February 16, 2016 on cplong.org Institutions of higher education across the country have long talked about diversity and inclusion. Many have established offices of equity or inclusion and hired staff to ensure that the institution is living up to its promise to foster an inclusive culture. At Michigan State University, inclusiveness is one of the three core…
Now in its third year, the International Student Mentorship Program, created and run by English Language Center (ELC) Instructor Alissa Cohen, was recently awarded a 2015-16 Continuing Inclusive Excellence Grant (CIEG) by MSU. CIEG support includes non-recurring funding of projects, programs, and proposals to create and support an inclusive university. This is the first year the Mentorship Program has received…
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be visiting MSU on Friday, February 12, 2015, and will be giving a talk at 3:00 in B342 Wells titled "Visionary Daughtering: An Intimate Intellectual and Activist Archive." "This interactive lecture will activate the concept of Visionary Daughtering as a description of the ongoing co-construction of freedom between/as black women and girls. Drawing on her…
MSU Federal Credit Union has a core value of Giving Back to the Community, which providing financial education and improving financial literacy in the communities we serve plays a major role. We offer financial seminars, offer financial education programs for various groups in the community, provide resources online and in the branches, and recently have created a financial education app…
Shenika Hankerson, PhD student in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, has won a 2015 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award.The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Hankerson is one of 10 recipients of this award. CCCC sponsors the Scholars for the Dream Awards…
Three project teams that include MSU College of Arts & Letters faculty and students were among the 10 teams receiving funding in the 2016 Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Global Midwest Grants. In total, the teams received over $160,000 in grants. The grants are supported by the Humanities Without Walls consortium, based at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities…
The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University has announced the creation of its Faculty Summer Fellowship Program with a commitment of $300,000 over summer 2016 to pilot the research incentive program. Individual tenure-system faculty can apply for up to $10,000. As stated by Dean Christopher P. Long in the College’s 2015 Fall Planning Letter, the new…