Randolph-Macon College English Department

11/17/2023

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Stylus (Randolph-Macon College’s literary journal) is seeking work for the 2023-2024 issue!

Any currently enrolled student or graduate of Randolph-Macon College is invited to submit their creative writing work. All majors are welcome!

We want to read your poems, short stories, personal essays, memoir, translations, flash fiction, lyrics essays, novel excerpts, song lyrics, and more! (Please note that work that has been published in a previous issue of The Stylus should not be submitted.) For a full list of our submission guidelines, see this link. (A copy of the submission guidelines has also been attached to this email.) If you have other questions that are not answered in these submission guidelines, reach out to Prof. Miner at [email protected].

The deadline to submit is Friday, December 1, 2023.
Submit your work here: https://forms.gle/nqEMHaFeh5VSWntT8

Thanks! We look forward to reading your work!

03/08/2023

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Stylus (Randolph-Macon College’s literary journal) is seeking work for the spring 2023 issue!

Any currently enrolled student or graduate of Randolph-Macon College is invited to submit their creative writing work. All majors are welcome!

We want to read your poems, short stories, personal essays, memoir, translations, flash fiction, lyrics essays, novel excerpts, song lyrics, and more! (Please note that work that has been published in a previous issue of The Stylus should not be submitted.) For a full list of our submission guidelines, see this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KCuGs0og4NzUyNeVny-jL1f-jRA0MulS/view?usp=sharing

If you have other questions that are not answered in these submission guidelines, reach out to Prof. Miner at [email protected].

The deadline to submit is Saturday, March 11, 2023.
Submit your work here: https://forms.gle/dRZHFezqsJyV3dcG9

Thanks!! We look forward to reading your work!

11/01/2021

So proud of our English Profs! Professors Marisa Cull and Jen Cadwallader installed as the Jean Renner Short Professor and the A.G. Ingram Professor, respectively.

Marisa R. Cull, Professor of English, was named Dr. Jean Renner Short Professor in the Liberal Arts, and Jen Cadwallader, Professor of English, was named the A.G. Ingram Professor in English.

09/22/2021

Back to our usual decadence: Come out next week to learn about the English Department at our annual death by chocolate event!

09/15/2021

In honor of Claude McKay’s birthday, here are two rarely republished sonnets from his 1922 collection "Harlem Shadows," the Harlem Renaissance’s earliest book of poetry.

08/21/2021

This week, we are highlighting our 2017 graduate, Meg Jacoby. Meg is entering her fifth year of teaching high school English in Chesterfield County Public Schools. She is wrapping up her last semester of Graduate Studies, pursuing a Master's in Reading Education (Reading Specialist work). Meg shared that she is especially eager to use her newly-gained skills as a way to support the low-level readers at her high school. In the summer of 2021, she earned the Betty Yarborough Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Reading Education. Meg was delighted and honored to receive recognition for her efforts; she considers herself a lifelong learner and loves being a student again. When she is not working on grad school papers and projects, she teaches horseback riding lessons, reads extensively, plays video games, and bakes. Congratulations, Meg! We hope you have a great school year!

08/01/2021

King

07/20/2021

A cartoon by Lars Kenneth.

06/30/2021

Congratulations to Robert Volpicelli on the publication of his first book, Transatlantic Modernism and the U.S. Lecture Tour!

Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person—through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour. Attending to these encounters, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour reroutes our understanding of modernism away from the magazines...

05/29/2021

Congratulations to Jen Cadwallader on being named the Ingram Professor of English - a well-deserved honor!

President Robert R. Lindgren and Provost Alisa J. Rosenthal are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jen Cadwallader, Professor of English as the A.G. Ingram Professor in English.

05/20/2021

English major BJ Camano is in the spotlight!

It was only after my trip to Japan (with Dean Bell and Dr. Doering) that I began to think more seriously about pursuing law.

05/19/2021

This past week the Randolph-Macon community suffered a difficult loss: Professor Tom Inge, noted comic book and Faulkner scholar, has passed away. Students were drawn to Professor Inge for his love of both humor and learning. His contributions to the college were many. Here is a write-up from The Daily Cartoonist that highlights just some aspects of his trail-blazing career:

Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away. Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May 2021 As CBR noted in their subhed: “M. Thomas Inge [was] one of the very …