Creative Energy in English
UK's Department of English launches its new MFA and welcomes new fiction faculty.
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Building Your Own Space in Academia: Nathan Moore
This summer took a different turn for Nathan Moore, an English undergraduate student with a minor in African American and Africana Studies, as he headed to New York City as a
Hard Work, Persistence Take Student to the Top of His Field
Nathan Moore was recently named a fellow for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute in New York City.
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Writing The Next Chapter: Nathan Moore
Undergraduate Nathan Moore selected as a fellow for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute in New York City.
'Reel to Real' to Take Historic Look at Film With Kentucky, Oscar Connections
The UK Special Collections Library's "Reel to Real" series continues tonight with "Coal Miner's Daughter," at 7 p.m. in Worsham Theater.
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Frank X Walker: Writer, Teacher, Award Winner
Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker brought home the gold this past weekend, winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.
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DaMaris Hill and Nathan Moore discuss Afrofuturism on WUKY
Wikipedia defines the subject as “an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.” Professor DaMaris Hill and her student Nathan Moore elaborate on this definition and tell us about the course. More information about the class is availab
Frank X Walker Nominated for NAACP Image Award
Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker, a faculty member in the Department of English, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
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New Faculty 2013: Meet DaMaris Hill
The Department of English and the African American and Africana Studies Program are excited to welcome DaMaris Hill to their faculty!
Hill's focus at the University of Kentucky will be on creative writing. While she tends to specialize in fiction, Hill has a background that spans the writing spectrum from poetry to play writing.
Medgar Evers Un-Ghosted in New WUKY Radio Production
"The Unghosting of Medgar Evers" is a book of poetry about the slain civil rights icon and now the title of a special one-hour radio production by WUKY 91.3 FM, the University of Kentucky's NPR station.