The Writing Center is Open!

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Our writing tutors are ready to assist students with writing projects. Very often, talking to an experienced student writer could help one generate ideas and learn to avoid writing errors. Come to see us!

Our hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and 6 - 9 p.m. on Monday - Thursday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Friday, and 1-6 p.m. on Sunday. The Writing Center website also has more information about our services: https://nmu.edu/writingcenter

Hope to see you soon!

 


September 14, 2022

October 5, 2022

October 26, 2022

November 28, 2022

Department

Primary Contact

zlehmber@nmu.edu

Contact Phone Number

906-227-2778

Contact Email

zlehmber@nmu.edu

Special Event Today: TPUSA Presents Daily Wire’s Cabot Lodge

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The NMU chapter of Turning Point USA (student club) is hosting an event today, Friday, October 7, at 7PM in Jamrich 1100, which could be of interest to all journalism, writing, and English students and faculty at large, as well as students/faculty in all departments across campus interested in honest news reporting in an age of “post-journalism.“

Speaker, Cabot Phillips, is Senior Editor for the Daily Wire; can be heard regularly on the Morning Wire; and served previously as Editor-in-Chief of Campus Reform


October 7, 2022

Department

Primary Contact

Gabe Brahm

Contact Email

gbrahm@nmu.edu

NMU Writing Center: Open for the Summer

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Hi! I’m Allison Peters, the new Assistant Director of the NMU Writing Center. Need a reader for your next writing project? Visit nmu.edu/writingcenter to schedule a virtual or in-person tutoring session! We’re open all summer, Monday-Wednesday 11am-4pm, below the library in Harden Hall 111G.

The Writing Center works to promote clear, effective written communication. Our highly trained peer tutors help members of the NMU community improve their writing skills through free, one-on-one consultations and online tutorials. We use recognized best practices in writing education to foster good writing habits; our goal is always to help students, not just “fix” a paper.

Email writing@nmu.edu or call the Writing Center at 906-227-2683 with any questions. Happy summer!


June 13, 2022

June 27, 2022

Department

Primary Contact

Allison Peters

Contact Phone Number

906-227-2683

Contact Email

writing@nmu.edu

NMU Writing Center open for the summer

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Would you like a reader for your class assignment or next writing project? Visit our website to schedule a virtual or in-person tutoring session! We’re open 11am-4pm, Tuesday-Thursday, all summer long below the library in Harden Hall 111G (next to the vending machines by Fieras).

The NMU Writing Center works to promote clear and effective written communication. Our peer tutors help members of the NMU community improve their writing skills through free one-on-one consultations. No matter what stage of the writing process you’re at, we’re here to help.

Email writing@nmu.edu or call the NMU Writing Center at 906-227-2683 with any questions. Happy summer!


May 31, 2023

June 7, 2023

June 14, 2023

June 21, 2023

June 28, 2023

July 5, 2023

July 12, 2023

July 19, 2023

Department

Primary Contact

Nathan Holtrey

Contact Phone Number

906-227-2683

Contact Email

nholtrey@nmu.edu

Annual Writing Contests

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The NMU English department hosts several annual writing contests for undergraduate students. The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 10.  Guidelines can be found at nmu.edu/english/awards.

Please contact the English department at 227-2711 or english@nmu.edu if you have any questions.


March 29, 2023

April 5, 2023

Department

Primary Contact

Lori Rintala

Contact Phone Number

906-227-2711

Contact Email

english@nmu.edu

David Heska Wanbli Weiden - Reading + Book Signing

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David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is the author of the award-winning crime thriller novel Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020). The novel was a national bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a Best Book of the year by NPR, Amazon Best Book of 2020/Best Mystery and Thriller of the year, and Best Book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Guardian, and other magazines. Weiden was named by the New York Times as one of “the most critically acclaimed young novelists working now.” Winter Counts was called a “once-in-a-generation thriller” by the Los Angeles Times, a “worthy addition to the burgeoning canon of indigenous literature” by Library Journal, and one of the “best crime novels of all time” by Parade magazine. Winter Counts was also selected as CrimeReads Best Noir Fiction, Best Debut, and Notable Selection for Best Crime Novel.

Weiden has short stories appearing or forthcoming in the anthologies The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022, Denver Noir, Midnight Hour, This Time for Sure, Never Whistle at Night, and The Perfect Crime. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Shenandoah, and Writer’s Digest. He’s the series editor of Native Edge, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press specializing in Indigenous literature. Weiden received the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship and is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee, and Tin House.

Weiden received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He’s professor of Native American studies and Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver and serves on the faculty of the Cedar Crest Pan-European MFA Program and also the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University.


Thursday, Mar 23, 2023

Start Time:  7:00 pm

Event Place

Northern Center

Room

Peninsula I

Event Status

Scheduled

Department

Primary Contact

Patricia Killelea

Contact Email

pkillelea@nmu.edu

Scott Hess, Visiting Scholar

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A Relational Approach to the Environmental Humanities

How can literature and other forms of culture impact ecological systems? This talk will present a relational approach to the environmental humanities that seeks to reshape our environmental relationships by tracing the wider systemic effects of various forms of cultural engagement. It will illustrate this approach by describing how nineteenth-century environmental authors like William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir became associated with specific landscapes in ways that shaped the modern significance of nature and the emergence and development of the environmental movement.

Scott Hess is Professor of English and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College. He currently serves as Conference Chair on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Sustainability Hub for Innovation and Environment (SHINE)


Friday, Mar 17, 2023

Start Time:  4:00 pm

Event Place

Northern Center

Room

Peninsula V

Address

Dept. of English

Event Status

Scheduled

Department

Primary Contact

William Broadway

Contact Email

wbroadwa@nmu.edu

Let's Talk about Books at NMU - Dr. R. Khari Brown from Wayne State University

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Join NMU faculty Lynn Domina as she speaks to Dr. R. Khari Brown, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University, about their new book, Race and the Power of Sermons in American Politics.

This book examines the intersection of race, political sermons, and social justice. Religious leaders and congregants who discuss and encourage others to do social justice embrace a form of civil religion that falls close to the covenantal wing of American civil religious thought. Relying on 44 national and regional surveys conducted between 1941 and 2019, Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics explores how racial experiences impact the degree to which religion informs social justice attitudes and political behavior. This is the most comprehensive set of analyses of publicly available survey data on this topic.

You are invited to watch NMU's Lynn Domina speak to Dr. R. Khari Brown on Friday, January 20th at 1:00pm Eastern time.

Registration is required but easy and free.

This webinar is part of a continuing series called "Let's Talk about Books at NMU".


Friday, Jan 20, 2023

Start Time:  1:00 pm
End Time:  2:00 pm

Event Status

Scheduled

Department

Primary Contact

Lynn Domina

Contact Phone Number

906-227-2672

Caroline Hovanec, Visiting Scholar

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Vermin Theory: Parasitic Life from Kafka's The Metamorphosis to Rawi Hage's Cockroach
Caroline Hovanec (University of Tampa)

Cockroaches, rats, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other vermin test the limits of our enchantment with animal life.  Yet modern and contemporary writers have found in these vile creatures matter for admiration, humor, and perverse sympathies.  What is it about vermin that makes them so creatively generative?  This talk will explore how literature represents and recasts vile creatures, focusing on Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis and Rawi Hage's 2008 novel Cockroach.  Kafka and Hage's vermin imagery asks reader to think differently about hospitality, debt, and the redistributive potential of the parasite.


Friday, Oct 14, 2022

Start Time:  3:00 pm

Event Place

Jamrich Hall

Room

1313

Event Status

Scheduled

Department

Primary Contact

Lori Rintala

Contact Phone Number

227-2711

Contact Email

english@nmu.edu

Event Type

Ticket Cost

n/a

Stewart Cole, Visiting Scholar

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Brave New World and the Rise of the Factory Farm
Stewart Cole (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)

Although Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World is widely recognized as a critique of consumerism, a portrait of state control, and a cautionary bioethical fable, its significance as an ecological novel has gone under appreciated.  In his talk, Dr. Cole will demonstrate how Huxley's novel engages with several early 20th-century developments - including assembly line production and advances in agricultural technology - that helped give rise to factory farming, one of the key drivers of global heating.  Along the way, he will consider the importance of the environmental humanities for understanding and addressing the ecological crises of our time.


Friday, Sep 30, 2022

Start Time:  3:00 pm

Event Place

Northern Center

Room

Peninsula I

Event Status

Scheduled

Department

Primary Contact

Lori Rintala

Contact Phone Number

227-2711

Contact Email

english@nmu.edu

Event Type

Ticket Cost

n/a
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