EIU English Department

Congratulations to all the students featured in this year's issue of The Vehicle! The digital issue is live now, featuring art, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama.

The Vehicle

Congratulations to three of our amazing graduating seniors who were recognized today as EIU Distinguished Seniors: Maddy McLaughlin, Ethan Miller, and Madison Thompson. (It’s pretty awesome that out of 25 spots for honorees English snagged 3 of them!)

Yesterday's awards tea gave us a chance to do two of our favorite things: Give away money and celebrate our students' successes!

Hey Alums, if you have any teenagers in your life who love to read or write and/or would benefit from getting a taste of college life, consider sharing this information about EIU's English Studies Summer Camp for High School Students with them. The application period ends one week from today! (It's worth noting that it's one of the most affordable academic camps around,; it beats out many week-long day camps that don't include meals and lodging in terms of affordability! Full & partial scholarships are available too).
https://www.eiu.edu/english/camp.php

Our Annual English Studies Student Conference was back in person this past week and was a great success! Check out our conference website to view the entire conference program, view featured graduate student presentations, watch our keynote lecture, and access our conference photo album: https://www.eiu.edu/english/conference.php

We're excited to announce that the application period is open for the 2024 English Studies Summer Camp for High School Students! If you know a high schooler (or incoming college student) who loves to read or write, please share this terrific opportunity with them! Residential and commuter experiences are available, as well as partial and full scholarships. https://www.eiu.edu/english/camp.php

Don't forget that the Vehicle is closing for submissions at the end of the day (11:59 p.m.) on February 29. We need more fiction, essays, poems, drama, and art!

And don't forget, ALUMS, FORMER AND CURRENT FACULTY AND STAFF, we welcome your work, too!

https://www.vehiclejournaleiu.com/submissions

EIU alums, faculty, staff, emeriti, and current students: It's that time of year again! Send your work to The Vehicle, EIU's student-run literary magazine.

More info here:
https://www.vehiclejournaleiu.com/submissions

Thank you to Smile Politely for this write-up of Lions in Winter! Reading is tomorrow at 6 p.m.!

Meet rising literary stars at Lions in Winter - Arts Lions in Winter is a literary festival at Eastern Illinois University. Each winter, three authors are invited to campus to share their work and their practices with students and community members alike. We’ve previously covered ...

Three more days until Lions in Winter! Luckily, the weather will be warmer, so nothing should keep you from coming out to hear Cynthia Pelayo (poetry), Emily Maloney (creative nonfiction), and Taymour Soomro (fiction) read and give craft talks.

The reading kicks off at 5:30 p.m. in the Doudna Fine Arts Center with a catered reception, and the reading will start at 6 p.m.

In addition to our featured writers, we will also have short readings from EIU students Athena Ballard, Riley Bauer, Sabrina Bunting, Hannah Hadley, Erica Heldenbrand, Maddy McLaughlin, and Ethan Miller. 🦁❄️

The revised, much shorter--and we hope better!--FAFSA is open. The site says the form will be "available periodically" during its soft launch, but still, no time like the present! Current and future students, we hope you'll get your FAFSA in before your holiday break is over.

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We hope to see you this Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. in the Doudna Lecture Hall for our Fall installment of the Hennings Memorial Reading Series! This October we'll feature new English faculty Amie Whittemore and EIU student Ethan Miller!

EIU’s 2023 English Studies Summer Camp is a wrap! Thanks to all the students who joined us on campus for our 9th year and to the camp counselors and instructors who helped make their experience a wonderful one!

Congratulations to our Literary Editing and Publishing students on the digital release of the Vehicle's Spring 2023 issue! The print issue will follow this summer, but in the meantime, you don't have to wait to read work by EIU students, alum, and staff!

The Vehicle Spring 2023 issue CLICK HERE Our MissionVehicle (n.): A medium through which something is expressed, achieved, or displayed.The Vehicle is Eastern Illinois University’s biannual student-run arts publication. Since 1959, The Vehicle has showcased an array of Panther voices, and views from all walks...

One week from today! SIU Professor and novelist Rafael Frumkin will read from his newest novel, CONFIDENCE. He will be joined by EIU grad student Julia Abazi. 6 p.m. in the Doudna Recital Hall.

Today is the last day to submit to the Vehicle! Check out these old copies from the 70s and 80s. Wouldn't you love someone to be reading your work forty or fifty years from now?

https://thevehicle.submittable.com/submit

We're excited to announce that the application period is open for the 2023 English Studies Summer Camp for High School Students! If you know a high schooler (or incoming college student) who loves to read or write, please share this terrific opportunity with them! Residential and commuter experiences are available, as well as partial and full scholarships.

Current students are automatically eligible for a substantial $ award when submitting to the Vehicle! We also are currently taking subs through March 8 from alum, staff, and faculty!

https://www.vehiclejournaleiu.com/submissions

The Vehicle, EIU's student-run literary magazine, is taking submissions through March 8! We would love to publish you!

https://www.vehiclejournaleiu.com/submissions

Two weeks from today! https://doudnatix.universitytickets.com

We are thrilled to bring back our Lions in Winter festival in person this year on January 28, 2023! We will be featured readings and craft talks by renowned poet Taylor Byas, fiction writer and filmmaker Kathe Koja, and memoirist and Washington Post columnist Brian Broome. This is a FREE ticketed event. Check comments for ticket link!

We are incredibly proud to announce the return of the student-run creative arts magazine, The Vehicle. After a pandemic hiatus, we are back with a brand-new website featuring the work of alums, current students, and staff. Share widely, and thank you for reading!

The Vehicle Spring 2022 FictionBauer / Brown / Evans / MillerPoetryBrown / Bunch / Donaldson / Evans / Homann / Kerr / Meyer / Sebastian / Thorpe / Walton Creative Nonfiction Blanchard / Kiser / ReidyDrama Homeyer / MesserArtAkosah / Gadomski / Graham / Paape / Reidy / Roughton / West  Letter from the EditorsW...

Hi English Alums,

If you know a high school student (or incoming college freshman) who loves to read, write, and/or study media, please consider encouraging them to apply to our English Studies Camp for High School Students. (We have scholarships available too!) The deadline is this Sunday, 5/1. Below is a link to the website you can share with them!

Eastern Illinois University :: English - English Studies Summer Camp

Congratulations to Ben Ellison for being awarded the Distinguished Student Award for his presentation “Diana vs. Danvers: How Warrior Women Combat the Male Gaze in Female Led Superhero Films” at the National Conference of the Pop Culture Association!

Congratulations to Ian Palacios for being awarded the Distinguished Student Award for his presentation, “A Common Sense Case for Animal Politics,” which was the winning essay in the Undergraduate Student Essay Contest for the Illinois Philosophical Association!

Congrats to Prof. Colleen Abel, who got at least one vote for Daily Eastern News person of the year, from DEN writer and major Katja Benz.

COLUMN: Dear Dr. Abel, thank you There’s a little anecdote that I sometimes share with people: I’m an English major against my own will. Don’t get me wrong, I love the major I picked and the concentration I picked even more, but I’ve wanted to be an award-winning screenwriter for as long as I can remember. To me, film seeme...

Congratulations to EJ Hicks for being awarded the Distinguished Student Award for their presentation, “Missing and Murdered: Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta,” at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention!

@ EIU presents The Body Carnival! All are invited!



EIU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Join us for a reading by poet Maya Marshall and EIU graduate student Gracie Beaver-Kairis at 6 p.m. on March 31 via Crowdcast! Poetry, prose, a brief Q&A and two unforgettable writers.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hennings-reading-marshall

Listen to faculty member Dr. Niall Nance-Carroll interviewed on WILL's The 21st earlier today in advance of his upcoming invited lecture at ISU: https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/niall-nance-carroll-on-the-history-of-winnie-the-pooh

Niall Nance-Carroll on the history of Winnie-the-Pooh | Illinois Public Media An English instructor from Eastern Illinois University is a Winnie-the-Pooh scholar, and he will be delivering a lecture on the character at Illinois State University Monday. He joined us on The 21st to talk about the character's history and adaptations.