Poems Published
November 15, 2010
Our former colleague John Fiedler has a poem in the Nov./Dec. issue of Mothering magazine. Congratulations!

Former Student's Memoir Released in 2011
November 9, 2010
Our former student, Mira (Herr) Bartok's new memoir, The Memory Palace, will be released in January 2011. You can find it on Amazon here.

Alum's Collection Wins Award
October 18, 2010
Katie Bode-Lang's collection, Spring Melt, has just won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club (NEPC): http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2010.htm. She will be reading in December at Harvard!

Poem Reading
October 15, 2010
Hope alums Anna West and Megan (Dougherty) Cheek are reading their poems at the Court Street Gallery in Saginaw, MI on Friday, October 29th at 7PM, along with local poet Dan Schell.
Here's the address for the gallery:
417 Hancock
Saginaw, MI, 48602

Hope Grad Receives Teaching Position
October 11, 2010
Hope grad Anna Park got a job as a long-term substitute teaching 3rd grade at Westtown School in West Chester, PA. Congratulations, Anna!

Essay Accepted for Publication
October 8, 2010
Kathleen Verduin just received news that her essay "Bread of Angels: Dante Studies and the Moral Vision of Charles Eliot Norton" has been accepted for publication in Dante Studies. Kathleen's work on Dante's reception in America has been meeting success at every turn.

Reunion Speaker
October 7, 2010
Stephen Hemenway presented the keynote address at the 50-Year Reunion of his high school class, in Worcester, MA. Stephen was president of his class and editor of the school paper, so he had stories to tell!

Faculty Presents Plenary Address
October 7, 2010
John Cox presented a plenary address at the Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics Conference at Yale University last weekend. John's address was titled "Shakespeare's Prayers," a study of the many prayers offered by characters in the plays.

Articles in Chronicle of Higher Education
October 7, 2010
Bill Pannapacker continues to publish monthly columns in the Chronicle of Higher Education. His most recent is "Why Do They Hate Us?" which you can read here: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-They-Hate-Us-/124608/ Bill's columns are often included on the Most Commented or Most E-mailed lists at CHE.

Faculty Member Finalist for Thurber Prize
October 7, 2010
Rhoda Janzen read from her memoir at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan on Monday night, as a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. Rhoda's Mennonite in a Little Black Dress has now been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 6 months.

Faculty Member's Book Reviewed
October 7, 2010
Heather Sellers will be in the New York Times Book Review this Sunday. Her new memoir, You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know, will be reviewed there--a major coup for any author. Heather's book also received a 4-star review in People. The publication date for the book is October 14.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Roach-t.html?_r=2&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3

Graduate's First Publication!
September 20, 2010
Congratulations to Christian Piers, who has had his first publication in the Kenyon Review. If you'd like to see it, please follow the link.
http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php

Faculty Summer Accomplishments
August 31, 2010

Congratulations to....

Kathleen Verduin, whose essay "Imprinting Mortality: Updike Reading Books" is now out in the September issue of the MLQ (Modern Language Quarterly).

Curtis Gruenler, whose major essay on Piers Plowman, "Reading like a Fool," appeared in the July issue of Speculum.

David Cho, whose chapbook Song of Our Songs, was published by Finishing Line Press. Buy your copy in the Bookstore.

Dianne Portfleet, co-director with Martie Bultman of Hope's chapter of Mortar Board, whose Hope College chapter was named best in the nation at the summer national Mortar Board conference.

Rhoda Janzen, whose Mennonite In a Little Black Dress has been on the NY Times Best Seller list all summer, and who has been named one of three finalists for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. See http://www.thurberhouse.org/program/adlt_prize.html Previous winners include Ian Frazier, David Sedaris, Jon Stewart, and the editorial staff of The Onion.

New Job News
August 25, 2010
Hope English grad Kyle Delhagen will be starting a new job as a Chaplain in a residency program at the Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Katie Budris, also an English major, will be teaching at Bucks County Community College and Mercer couty Community College.

New Principal Named
August 23, 2010
Dave Stefanich, after teaching at Great Lakes Elementary School for five years, has accepted the position of principal at the same school. Good luck to Dave!

Teaching Position
August 10, 2010
Recent grad Chelsea Otten earned a position teaching 4th grade in Curtis, Michigan. Congratulations, Chelsea!

Professor Featured on NPR
August 9, 2010
NPR's All Things Considered featured Professor Rhoda Burton this weekend. Prof. Burton spoke on Portrait of a Lady. To read her essay, follow this link.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127630877

MFA Earned
August 3, 2010
Hope English major Caitelen (Anderson) Schneeberger defended her thesis and received her MFA at Ashland University. Congratulations, Caitelen!

Grad Named Associate Editor
August 2, 2010
Our Jonah Ogles has been hired to be the new Associate Editor of Cincinnati Magazine. The magazine has won many awards including the City and Regional Magazine Award for General Excellence and the National Award for Best Magazine Profile Writing.

Collection Published by Finishing Line Press
July 26, 2010
Our Laura Donnelly's luminous collection, Nocturne Schumann's Letters,
has been published and is available online from Finishing Line Press.
Laura is also editor of Third Coast and is on the board of Artifice.

Kresge Award Winner
July 1, 2010
Our grad, Steve Hughes, has received a Kresge Award. The fellowships, each including a $25,000 prize funded by the Kresge Foundation, are awarded annually to visual, literary and performing artists and are the largest such awards available to individual artists in metropolitan Detroit. Here's the site about the awards.
http://kresge.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/

Poetry Publications
May 7, 2010
Meaghan Elliot, a 2005 grad, has several poems ready for publication. "Miles from Water" can now be read in the spring issue of the New Plains Review; "Ahora," "Despues," and "Manana" will be published in the next issue of Poetry Quarterly; "Ruin" will soon be in the upcoming issue of the Midwest Literary Review; also, "Slatch" will be in this summer's issue of OCEAN Magazine.

Hoffman Award Winner
May 5, 2010
English grad Lauren Jensen received the Hoffman Award at Virginia Tech. The award goes to the finest teacher among their graduate students.

English Professor Hits The New York Times Best Seller List!
May 3, 2010
Rhoda (Janzen) Burton's book Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is currently #2 on The New York Times Best Seller List for Paperback Non-fiction. Congratulations, Rhoda!

2010 Grad Accepted to MA Program
April 27, 2010
Jon Andreas Van Denend, this year's Theune Award Winner, has been accepted to an MA program in Religious Studies at University of Colorado--Boulder, where he will focus on Islamic studies.

English Grad Accepted into PhD Program
April 27, 2010
Alumni Jon Dean has been accepted into a joint DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine)/Ph.D. program at Minnesota. Congratulations, Jon!

English Major Wins Fulbright Award
April 23, 2010
Emily Sicard has won a Fulbright Award to Madrid, Spain, for the coming year. Emily will be an English Teaching Assistant in a school. Fulbrights change lives and we're delighted for Emily's accomplishment and for the adventures awaiting her...

Professor Featured on NPR
April 21, 2010
Dr. John Cox of the English faculty is one of three Shakespeare scholars interviewed in a National Public Radio program prepared in celebration of William Shakespeare's birthday. Broadcast times around the country will vary, but the program can be heard via the audio stream of WBGO radio in the New York area on Wednesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. ET

Pannapacker Blogs for The New York Times
April 4, 2010
Professor Bill Pannapacker debuted a blog on The New York Times website this week. You can check it out here: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/can-neuro-lit-crit-save-the-humanities/#william

National Poetry Month Features Jack Ridl!
April 1, 2010
The Academy of American Poets has selected the poem "Coach Losing His Daughter" by Jack Ridl to be emailed throughout the country on April 24 as part of their Poem-a-Day celebration for National Poetry Month.

NPR's Brian Lehrer Show Features Faculty!
February 19, 2010
Tune in to the Friday, Februrary 19 Brian Lehrer show to hear Bill Pannapacker speak about the reactions he's received from his articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Article
February 12, 2010
Check out Bill Pannapacker's latest article in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the pros and cons of graduate school!

Faculty Consulting on National History Museum in Demark
January 25, 2010
Bill Pannapacker is currently speaking at a symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was invited to share his perspective in the redesign of Denmark's national Natural History Museum. See the Holland Sentinel article here or Hope College's press release here.

Acceptance to Spalding University
January 19, 2010
English grad Kristin (Olson) Brace has been accepted to the MFA program at Spalding University, where Priscilla Atkins received her MFA and Anna West is currently studying. Congratulations to Kristin!

Photo Essay Published
January 14, 2010
Our grad Mark Hillringhouse is featured with a photo essay in the Jan/Feb issue of American Poetry Review, one of the most influential literary reviews.

New Article in the Chronicle
January 4, 2010
Professor William Pannapacker has a new article in The Chronicle for academic job seekers. Click here to read.

2010 Celebrations of Success
January 4, 2010
Ernest Cole's article "Post-Apartheid South Africa as Emerging Dystopia: An Examination of Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow" appears in the newest issue of SAFARA: Revue Internationale de Langues, Litteratures et Cultures (Senegal).

Curtis Gruenler's article on C.S. Lewis and Rene Girard has been accepted for publication in Christianity and Literature.

Heather Sellers's"Victory Gardens" was a finalist for the Narrative 2009 story contest. Heather also gave an early January reading in New York City, appearing with the vocal group Soho Voce.

Jack Ridl has made a clean sweep of the Best-of-2009 lists. The college press release includes many of the details:
http://www.hope.edu/pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/25672
Jack's Losing Season has also been cited on NPR's "Only a Game" and "Here and Now" in their lists of note-worthy books for 2009.

Press Releases About English

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