Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Irish Poet, Playwright, and Novelist

Dates and Deadlines English Department and Student Services

March 1:

Last day for AS&E students to

make up incomplete grades

from Fall 2017

March 14:

Submission deadline for The

Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize

and The Academy of

American Poets Prize

March 17:

Spring recess begins:

Classes suspended

March 26:

Spring recess ends:

Classes resume

March 26:

Advising period begins

March 27:

Duy Doan and Rebecca

Morgan Frank Poetry

Reading at 6pm

(Mugar Hall 200)

East Hall

Department of English

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In This Issue

Dates and Deadlines 1

Career Center Events 2

Student Groups 2

Writing Prizes 3

Poetry Reading 4

Summer Courses 5

Scholarship Opportunity 6

Tufts in Talloires 7

TEFL Iberia 8

Undergrad Notes News from the English Department of Tufts University March 2018

Save the Date! April 18, 2018 6-7:30pm

The English Department will celebrate our graduating

senior majors! Additional info to follow.

Tufts Career Center

Environmental

Networking Night

March 7, 7 – 9pm

Dowling Hall 745

Please register in Handshake.

Student Groups Students interested in

journalism, creative writing,

and/or publication on campus

should consider getting involved

with some of the campus's

student organizations.

Blue Lake Press: A weekly

workshop for experienced and

novice writers alike, a regularly-

published zine compiled from

workshops, and a community of

writers.

https://www.facebook.com/bluel

akepress/

The Daily: The student-run daily

newspaper. Runs op-ed pieces

submitted by students as well as

traditional news, arts, and sports

articles covering both the Tufts

campus and the greater

Medford/Somerville/Boston area.

https://tuftsdaily.com/

Law Day on the Hill

March 8, 6 – 8:30pm

Alumnae Lounge

Registration required.

Careers in Film and Media

March 9, 8:30am – 12pm

Distler/Granoff

Future Histories: The premier

literary journal. Publishes fiction,

poetry, creative nonfiction, art,

photography, and other

meritorious creative works on a

semiannual basis. Accepts

submissions in any language.

https://futurehistoriesmag.wordp

ress.com/

Melisma: The premier journal of

music. Covers local, independent

music relevant to Tufts and

provides an outlet for thought on

the music industry at large.

https://melismamagazine.com/

The Observer: A weekly-to-

biweekly publication of news

analysis, opinion pieces, and

reviews and analysis of current

arts, entertainment, and cultural

trends. http://tuftsobserver.org/

Careers in Common Good

March 10, 8:30am – 3pm

Cabot Intercultural Center

Application Deadline: Laidlaw

Undergraduate Research and

Leadership Program

March 16

Parnassus: A community which

meets once a week for a session

of unrestrained creative writing,

sharing, and literary bonding.

https://www.facebook.com/tufts

parnassus/

The Public Journal: A collective

autobiography, author unknown.

It’s written by the people, for the

people.

https://www.facebook.com/Tufts

PublicJournal/

The Zamboni: The premier

humor and satire publication,

reporting only the finest fake

news, made-up features, and

photoshopped images.

http://www.tuftszamboni.com/

The elephant drawings are from

rosietea.blogspot.co.uk.

Events that may be of interest to English students…

Tufts University Department of English

The Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize $100 for the best short story by a full-time undergraduate.

The Academy of American Poets Prize $100 for the best poem or group of poems (200 lines max) by a full-time

undergraduate.

Submit two copies of your manuscript to the

English Department office, East Hall room 210 by 4:00 PM on Wednesday, March 14th, 2018.

Winners will be announced in April and will participate in a student reading.

Guidelines: 1. Submit two copies of your original manuscript, typed and double spaced. 2. Choose a pseudonym and print it on EACH page of your submission. Your real name should NOT appear on any page of your story or poetry. 3. Fill out a submission form, available at the English office and on the English Department website. 4. Each student is limited to one submission in each category.

The Department of English Presents

Poetry at Tufts

Duy Doan and Rebecca Morgan Frank

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of Little Murders Everywhere, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; The Spokes of Venus (Carnegie Mellon 2016), and Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (Carnegie Mellon 2017). Her poems have appeared in such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Guernica. She is the Jacob Ziskind Poet in Residence at Brandeis University and co-founder and editor of Memorious.org.

Duy Doan is the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he serves as director of the Favorite Poem Project.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:00 PM Mugar Hall, Room 200

Summer Courses ~ 2018

Department of English

First Session (May 23 – June 29)

ENG 0005A: Creative Writing: Fiction T. Weesner, MW 6-9:30pm

ENG 0086A: Jane Austen: Novels & Films J. Genster, TR 1-4:30pm

ENG 0092A: Digital Rhetoric R. Crano, TR 6-9:30pm

ENG 0191AC: The Childhood Canon & Disney S. King, TR 1-4:30pm

ENG 0191AD: Shakespeare & Film J. Genster, TR 6-9:30pm

Second Session (July 3 – August 10)

ENG 0005B: Creative Writing: Fiction J. Hurka, TR 6-9:30pm

ENG 0092B: Popular Culture in America S. King, TR 1-4:30pm

Click here for more information!

Outstanding Scholarship Opportunity:

Journalism Education Foundation of New England

The Journalism Education Foundation of New England has an outstanding scholarship opportunity for

students!

Once again this year, the Journalism Education Foundation of New England will award a number of

$1,000 scholarships to high school seniors and college students in our six-state region who plan to pursue

a career in journalism. This is a wonderful program that encourages and supports those who will staff and

lead our news organizations into the next generation.

Students from Tufts are eligible for these scholarships - we urge aspiring journalists to apply!

Interested students can download the scholarship application from our New England Newspaper & Press

Association website www.nenpa.com or by clicking the links below.

The deadline for applications is March 9, 2018.

Scholarship Application

NENPA