Language and Literature Blog

The Language and Literature Department at EMU is very excited to welcome some more new majors and minors of 2016! This is Clara Weybright’s first year, and in her interview she describes her personal journey to Lang & Lit. She shares her hopes from this experience with her English major. A TESOL minor, Katie Wenger’s....

Caleb Schrock-Hurst is a junior transfer from Heston. He majors in English and describes his interest in literature during his interview.  Angel Mallard is also a junior with a double major in English and Communications. She describes how the combination of the two majors will be beneficial in the future. On the other hand, Anastasia is....

I never loved poetry. It was agonizing to look over in class, always hiding a deeper meaning than the one I saw. I would reach, imagining that I was diving ever deeper into the text to catch some elusive epiphany, and when class ended I would gasp in relief as I came up for air,....

Thursday evening started off with a bang — literally. “The hunter, my father, a Marine, pops two shots / at a young buck from too far.” These lines begin “A Brief Argument,” which poet Gary Dop read with no introduction, kicking off the evening with a poem about a boy trying to kill a deer....

Congratulations to Sarah Beth Ranck, First Place winner for her essay titled “The Playing Field of Education.” Sarah is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and is majoring in Math Education with a minor in Spanish.     Congratulations to Kayla Sauder, Second Place winner for her essay titled “Socioeconomic Status and the Relation to Hospital Use and....

Amber Davis, a senior English major from Winchester, Virginia reflects on her experiences during EMU’s cross-cultural semester in China in fall 2015. One of the leaders for that trip, Eric Eberly, taught Elementary Mandarin in our department in spring 2015 to help prepare members of his group for their adventures in China. Amber’s reflections originally....