November | 2021 | Dr. Shannon Finck

Two Poems in Willawaw Journal: Issue 9

“Origin Story” & “With the Sandhill Cranes”

Modernism and Food Studies

ENGL 1101: How (and Why) to Write in the Anthropocene

Course Description In 2016, geoscientists adopted a new designation for our current time period, “the Anthropocene.” This nomenclature reflects the impact of human activity on the planet, as human beings now transform the Earth on a global scale to the same degree that environmental events have in the past. In this course, we will contemplate…

ENGL 1103: Crisis & Community

Course Description The Honors Digital Literacy Initiative is intended to prepare students for professional and post-graduate success by teaching them how to “think digitally” across a variety of fields. Through Digital Literacy courses, students will develop work that demonstrates digital experiences and learning. Students will explore digital solutions as they develop a portfolio of work…

Winner/Finalists Announced for the 2021 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry

Avant-Gardes in Crisis

Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance’s very possibility. Specifically, this collection casts contemporary avant-gardes as a reaction to a crisis in the reproduction of…