Department Events

Upcoming Events

The English Department is active in several areas: First Circle, The Black and Magenta, The Muscoljuan, Society for Collegiate Journalists, Sigma Tau Delta, and the Writing Center are a few of our activities. Please check each area for specific events.

Senior Seminar

This semester's senior seminar presentations will be on Monday, April 28, from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. and on Wednesday, April 30, from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. The room will be announced. On Monday, April 28, from 4:30 to 5 p.m. in Cambridge Hall 3 there will be a reception honoring our graduating English majors. Everyone is welcome.

MY WORDS. Professor Alan Chaffee reads an original poem to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new music building on Muskingum's campus. Dr. Chaffee has been a member of the Muskingum faculty since 1970.	STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT Jeremy Finkel thanks the Otto Foundation for the new building. Jeremy is a double major in English and Speech Communication. He will be doing a summer internship in Los Angeles.

"WE'RE READY!" Members of Dr. Edsall's Classical Mythology class get ready to give their presentations. They had to research a mythological character and then appear as that character as they gave their reports.	"IS THIS MOUNT OLYMPUS?" Students in English 394 Classical Mythology pose with their costumes and props. Presentations ranged from Pegasus, far right, to Hermes, far left, with Sirens, the Fates, and assorted other gods and heroes from Homer.

PROPS AND ALL. While Hermes (Levi Shaw) adjusts his winged helmet, Poseidon (Greg Miller) holds up his trident. In front, the Fates (Blair Loaiza), Apollo with his lyre (Jodi Van Dyke), Hecate (Liz Strauss in black) and Artemis (Lily McKee) with her silver bow.	"THIS IS A CLASSROOM, not my usual underwater domain," says Poseidon. Greg Miller made a beard from paper, and an underwater scene complete with fish for his outfit, which he topped off with a trident made from a swiffer mop.

CREATIVITY ABOUNDS. This fall the college theater department produced an original comedy by Dr. Donna Edsall, chair of the English department. Here, Tootsie and Jack consider life in LA while Murray and Ollie attempt to sell them a television series.	ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT. Dr. Vivian Wagner, left, speaks with two student editors of The Black and Magenta. Print Journalism is housed in the English Department.
MY WE'RE ACTIVE!" Dr. Richard Williamson looks over the Sigma Tau Delta set up for the Activities Fair. The English Department needed four tables--Sigma Tau Delta, the English honorary; First Circle, the college creative magazine; Black and Magenta, the college newspaper; The Muscoljuan, the college yearbook. New this year was a table for the Creative Writing Club.	"AND I COOK TOO!" Dr. Jane Varley demonstrates she's as creative in the kitchen as she is on paper. She boiled the pasta for dinner at Dr. Edsall's house--and did not burn a thing!
THAT'S FUNNY! Faculty members enjoy Ken Waldman's story about his near-tragic plane crash.	THAT TAKES THE CAKE! Dr. Kekoa Kaluhiokalani prepares to cut the departmental birthday cake at this fall's picnic. The English Department opens and closes each school year with a picnic. Summer birthdays are Fox, Kaluhiokalani, Edsall. Wagner and Chaffee. At the spring picnic, the spring birthdays are celebrated: Varley, Farquhar, Williamson, and DeCuir.