Category: Folio 2017
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Folio Supercuts 2018
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Before we log-off for the summer, we wanted to share one last post to thank our interns for their work this year and to do a little summing up of the year. It’s been a bang-up year for the English Department: lots of innovation in teaching and scholarship as evidenced by our recent post. It’s also…
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Student Opportunities: Internships, Scholarships, and Submissions to Literary Journals
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Although the semester is almost over, there are opportunities abound for English students to pursue over the break! **** internships & scholarships Charleston magazine, one of the city’s premier magazines since 1975, is offering an internship opportunity for those interested in writing, editing, and publishing. The position is unpaid, but eligible for college credit. It requires…
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Happening: Film Club’s Premiere of “The Shelving”
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update: The Shelving received an Honorable Mention prize at the Top Shorts Online Film Festival. Many congrats to the cast and crew! This semester, the crew of the film club has been making a short film, “The Shelving.” After finishing up two months of hard work, it’s time for the premiere! All are welcome to…
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Sequel: Paula Koetter
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Paula Koetter is an alumnus of the English Department, and more currently, she is a professional technical writer. In this edition of Sequel, I sat down with her to hear her take on what technical writing is and what it added to her study of English. What follows is some of her interview and a…
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Student Opportunities: Two Paid Summer Internships
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Two paid internships available! Applications are due January 15, 2018. *** The Goldring/Woldenberg Institutute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) seeks candidates for their summer 2018 internships in the History Department and Heritage and Interpretation Department. These are paid positions, ideally for upper-level undergraduates with interests in Southern studies, Jewish studies, public history, digital humanities and/or…
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Sequel: Kaleb Eisele
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Welcome to Sequel, a series spotlighting our talented alumni and the strides they’ve made in their field post-graduation. Empathy. Imagination. Flexibility. Drive. Not all of us are born with these qualities in such abundance as Kaleb Eisele – but all of these qualities can be sharpened by an English education. Although Eisele’s life after graduation has…
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Find Your Voice: Cameras are Rolling at the Film Club
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“The workshop that took place at Trident Technical College was an invaluable experience,” said Dan Colella, ’20. Colella and Matthew Gordner ’17 lead the Film Club at the College and last Friday, they took a group of 20 students to Trident to learn about the techniques and equipment of digital film making. The club meets…
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Student Opportunities: Oakland Arts Review
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Call for creative writing and graphic art If you have a poem, story, script, or nonfiction essay that you would like to see published, see the call below from Jeff Chapman from the Oakland Arts Review (OAR), an undergraduate journal housed at Oakland University in Michigan. Submissions are open year-round, but submissions for their 3rd…
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Find Your Voice: Mara McCloy
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Welcome to Find Your Voice, a series profiling English students and the stories they have to tell. “I like the days I can process my thoughts into a story. I feel accomplished on those days.” Mara McCloy’s thoughts run through her mind like a chaotic poem in its first draft. At the end of each day,…