Cottey College English Department

05/20/2026

ENG 231: African American Literature, Spring 2026

Why isn't this class two semesters long?! We covered so many authors, from Philis Wheatley to Beyoncé, and we had a lot of fun!

05/19/2026

ENG/WGS 372: Toni Morrison, Spring 2026

What a wonderful group for a Toni Morrison deep-dive! If only we could have met for hours each day instead of only 50 minutes!

05/18/2026

Have you heard?? The 2025-2026 issue of the Image Tree, Cottey's student creative journal, is out! Please enjoy browsing the issue, which is themed "An Ode to the Classics: Giving Thanks to Our Artistic Influences." Be sure to click "older posts" to view all the work. Join us in congratulating all students who have their work featured!

Our current issue, "An Ode to the Classics: Giving Thanks to Our Artistic Influences" was selected by our 2025-2026 Image Tree Team. In this issue, we invite students to reflect on any artistic inspirations and/or influences brought by any previous artists or art forms! These submissions may be a wa...

05/17/2026

ENG 103: Literature and Medicine, Spring 2026

We had some good discussions in this class!

05/16/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Sandy Chaney on her retirement from Cottey and her earning the title of Professor Emerita! Although Dr. Chaney was a professor of history, many of our English majors/minors took classes with her and know first-hand what a gem she is! We will miss her so much, but we are so grateful for all she gave to the College and to her students and colleagues! Best wishes, Dr. Chaney!! You deserve a wonderful next chapter!

05/16/2026

Congratulations to our new alums! We are excited to see what you do next! And we always love to see alums who return to campus! Keep visiting us and staying in touch!

05/16/2026

The Cottey English and Writing Faculty! Another year is in the books! Congratulations to all our students who are now Cottey alums!!

05/15/2026

Congratulations to Crestin Lusk who is graduating this weekend with a B.A. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a minor in English. Crestin, pictured here with her signed, official capstone thesis title page, completed her WGS Capstone last spring so she could focus on an English minor this year. Crestin turned her internship working on a local political campaign into a job after graduation! Crestin, we are so proud of you and are excited for your future!

05/15/2026

Congratulations to Cora Neher, who will be graduating this weekend with a B.A. in English and a B.A. in Secondary Education--English! Cora completed her student teaching this spring and her English capstone thesis last spring. (Here, she is holding her official, signed English capstone thesis title page.) Cora, congratulations on all you have accomplished at Cottey! We can't wait to see what you do next!

05/14/2026

For their creative project this spring, students in ENG 103: Literature and Medicine created a literary pharmacy where people could get literary prescriptions for whatever was ailing them. It was a lot of fun to create the pharmacy, and the students did a lovely job prescribing their favorite texts! (The envelopes are filled with scrolls containing the printed text [i.e., "medicine"] that has been prescribed.) The pharmacy is still up in the RBAC Student Art Gallery, so check it out if you are on campus!