Jones Presenting for Noon at Nerman

Posted on 10/22/2019 by jmcward

Nathan Jones, professor of English, discussed Fifty-Five Trees at Sunset for the Noon at the Nerman at noon on Friday, Oct. 25.   This painting, by Benjamin Butler, is located in the atrium area between the Regnier Center and the Nerman Museum.

 

 

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Careers in Sports Broadcasting

Posted on 10/04/2019 by jmcward

The Journalism and Media Communications Department is sponsoring a media panel on careers in sports broadcasting.  The panel will feature Mitch Holthus, voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, Ryan Lefebvre, TV and radio announcer for the Kansas City Royals, and Todd Leabo, moderator, reporter, and producer for 810 Sports Radio.  The event will be from 11 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in Craig Auditorium (GEB 233).

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Senter Presents at Once Upon an Artifact

Posted on 09/17/2019 by jmcward

At 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 17, Marilyn Senter, professor of English, will present on American School Primers as part of the “Once Upon an Artifact” event at the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center.  Here is a summary of Senter’s presentation from the program: “Textbooks of the 19th and 20th century were not phonic-friendly stories that populate our schools today.  In this presentation, we will look briefly at some of the common primers which Kansas students might have used, and we will discuss the moral lessons embedded in the reading.”

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Cantwell Reviews Burns’s Country Music in New Yorker

Posted on 09/17/2019 by jmcward

In the New Yorker online, David Cantwell, adjunct professor of English, reviews Ken Burns’s 16-hour PBS documentary, Country Music. Cantwell’s thorough review, titled “Ken Burns’s Delightful ‘Country Music’ Gets the Big Things Mostly Right,” summarizes the some of the most significant artists featured in the documentary and highlights the fresh approaches that Burns has taken with the genre.  According to Cantwell, a viewer will leave the documentary realizing that “country music is not, and has never been, static.”

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Workman Story Published

Posted on 09/10/2019 by jmcward

Adjunct Professor Craig Workman‘s piece “Hallibray’s Riverbank Time” was accepted for a three-author novelette titled Treasure Chest. The book is set to be published in hard-copy by Scarlet Leaf Press out of Toronto, and will be released in late-fall.

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