When Spring rolls around and you get the first email, your heart flutters.  $250 sounds like alot, but you will pay it gladly, knowing that September will be here before you know it and that the Canadian border will be calling your name.  For any student who has experienced the Stratford Festival, this scenario probably sounds all too familiar.  For those of you who haven't, here are the reasons why you must...Read More

When first-year student Taylor Hiner received the assignment, she was uncertain of either idea or approach.  Her final submission to the nationally broadcast program, 'This I Believe', benefited directly from her deliberations, since she joins an esteemed few students whose work has been accepted by this well-regarded publication.  Working with Associate Professor Fitz Smith in his English 101 course, 'The Art of the Essay', Taylor crafted a successful essay after a series of grueling revisions and an intense peer-editing workshop. Read More...

English department faculty and students joined to commemorate the passing of author J.D. Salinger with our First Annual Read-A-Thon, held two weeks ago in the Hollenbeck atrium.  Participants read in 20 minute intervals throughout the day from Salinger's most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye.  Read full story from the Wittenberg Torch