Pages: English Club

Pages is a club for all students interested in studies in English, including English majors and minors, students in Education pursuing endorsements in English, and any students curious to learn more about English studies. Meetings are informal and usually involve herbal tea and cookies while a presentation with information and ideas of interest to English students, such as faculty discussions of their research, study abroad for English students, and working in the writing center is conducted.

The English Club faculty advisor is Jessica Winston, Professor of English. Tanner Pratt, Senior in English, is co-organizer of the club which began in fall 2023.

Upcoming Meetings

Friday, March 29, 4:45pm, IGC Keynote address in the REND Suites

We shift from our usual meeting time to attend the keynote talk for the Intermountain Graduate Conference. The talk, given by accomplished author and University of Idaho Professor is, "Moving the Fenceposts: Contemporary Poets and Hybrid Writers Reshaping Tradition." The Intermountain Graduate Conference is organized annually by our "sister" club, the English Graduate Students Association. The keynote and all conference events are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring a friend.

Thursday, April 4, 4pm, LA 244: Playreading

Final playreading of the semester. We'll be reading Sweat by Lynn Nottage, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama. There are NINE characters, some major, some minor, but it would be great to have a good turnout to fill out the roster. Herbal tea and Girl Scout cookies will be served.

Here's a plot summary of Sweat from Wikipedia: "The plot consists of many different characters. There are a group of friends that work for the steel factory, named Tracy, Cynthia and Jessie. Tracy is a middle-aged white woman. She loves to hang out at the bar with her friends and she has a gruff kind of humor. She cannot stand the way Reading has been changing over the years. Her friend Cynthia is a black woman who also loves to hang out with her friends at the bar and is a hardworking woman in the factory. She is on and off with her husband, Brucie, who is addicted to drugs. During the play, Cynthia applies for a managing job at the plant which causes some problems. Jessie, another worker at the factory, is not so happy with how her life has turned out and has some problems with alcohol abuse. This is shown in many of the bar scenes. The bartender in the play is Stan.  He used to work at the plant but he was injured in a factory accident. Oscar, the busboy at the bar, is Colombian and is not acknowledged often by the people who go there. Some characters use xenophobic slurs towards Latinos and show him that he isn't welcome in the Olstead factory. Jason is a white man who is Tracey's son. His best friend is Chris, Cynthia’s son. They both work at the factory and worry that they will be laid off. They both are arrested for assault and are released eight years later. These are only the main characters. There are other minor characters in the plot of the play."

Thursday, April 11, LA 244: Topic TBA

Thursday, April 18, LA 244: Topic TBA

Thursday, April 25, LA 244: Topic TBA