Student and Alumnae/i Profiles

Hear about our program directly from current students:

Kyle Ellingson
Megan Koltes
Matt Beck
Megan Sinner

The English Department announces the winner of the 2010 Wager-Berger Prize:

Senior Megan Mills-Rittmann, an English major from Burnsville, MN, won the 2010 Wagner-Berger Prize for her short story "Ruins." Look for Megan's story this spring in Studio One.

Recent SJU graduates earn fellowships:

Brandon Drazich and Nik Nadeau, recent graduates of SJU, have received Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowships from the University of Minnesota. For more information, visit the Human Rights Fellowships website.

Department News

Upcoming Events
We offer a variety of scholarships...
Faculty member Betsy Johnson-Miller recently published her first full-length poetry collection Rain When You Want Rain.
Faculty member Steven Thomas published "The New James Bond and Globalization Theory, Inside and Out" in issue 78 (2009) of the film journal CineAction.
July 1st, 2009, faculty member Cynthia Malone, Ph.D. became Chair of the CSB/SJU English Dept.
Three English alumni featured in SC Times.
Making "Young Hamlet" by faculty member Matthew Harkins was published in the Spring 2009 issue of Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.

Create Your Own Adventure

Whether you study English out of sheer love of drama and poetry, or whether you are preparing for your dream job—perhaps as an editor or an author—the basic prerequisites remain the same:

an appreciation of language
an inquiring mind
the ability and desire to communicate your ideas clearly through speaking and writing

A message from the department chair

Program highlights

English majors regularly intern at Graywolf Press and other companies where they use their reading, writing and editing skills every day.
Faculty members who are engaged and productive in their fields.
Through the CSB Literary Arts Institute, English majors learn what it means to be a working author by taking classes from visiting writers throughout the year.

Overview of Program

Curriculum to include all literature written in English—e.g. works from India, Africa and the Caribbean
Expanded investigation into more literature by people of color and women.
Two concentrations: Literature and English-language arts.

Faculty News

According to CSB/SJU Communication and Marketing Services, "Going Blind: A Memior, by Sister Mara Faulkner, is a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award in the Category of Memior and Creative Nonfiction." Read more about it here.

Sister Mara Faulkner's memoir Going Blind was published by State University of New York Press in July 2009. She was interviewed by The Record (click here for the article) and by the CSBSJU Library (click here for the podcast).

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Cynthia Malone, professor of English, received the Sister Mary Grell Teacher of Distinction Award at the Academic Affairs Awards and Recognition Ceremony, May 5, 2009. Click here for more information on both Malone and Sister Mary Grell.

Contact information:

Cynthia Malone, Ph.D., Department Chair
(320)-363-5384