News and Events

Upcoming Events

Save the date for these exciting events!

• Mayo Review Launch (4/22/2010)
• Paul Barrus Day (4/9/2010)
• Alumni Ambassador Day (3/30/2010)

News

• Net Olé (3/29/2010)

  Texas A&M University-Commerce is proud to host the 2010 event on Monday, March 29th and continue the tradition of friendly competition that has served thousands of area high school students.

• EGAD Conference (2/26/2010)

  Poets, Practice, and Passion in the Profession: A Dare to be Different

  EGAD hosts an annual conference that invites students, undergraduate and graduate, and faculty to come together and discuss current and future issues in literature and composition and encourages presentations analyzing texts, games, visual rhetoric, graphic novels, comic books, and more.

  Texas A&M University-Commerce will hold the 18th Annual English Graduates for Academic Development (EGAD) Conference on February 26, 2010.  We are pleased to welcome slam poet and educator Taylor Mali as our keynote speaker for the conference (more information at www.taylormali.com).

• Department Newsletter available (1/29/2010)

  Follow the link on the left to view the current and previous issues!

• 2009 Tolkien Institute (12/2/2008)

  Dear Colleague Letter and Application
  
  We would like to invite you to join the Company we wish to create this summer as 25 Institute Scholars join fifteen Tolkienists and us on a five-week journey. Our journey begins in an agricultural county that has the quiet rural ambiance of the green northeastern part of Texas.  The journey will focus on the minds, hearts, and spirits of our Company as we explore the complex and varied world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth through the primary text, the recent films by Peter Jackson, and the scholarship about the many sources that Tolkien drew on in the more than thirty years he spent creating what many see as one of the most complex of "alternate worlds." While this journey may seem to be daunting at first, we will do our best to guide our group through the challenges of exploring this world which, of course, as all the best "fantasies" do, will show us more about our own world and about ourselves.

• Grant Awarded to Dr. Robin Reid (9/10/2008)

  Dr. Robin Reid, along with Dr. Judy Ford of History, was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  This grant will support the J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in the History & Literature Classroom project.

• National Conversation on Writing (6/4/2008)

  The National Conversation on Writing (NCoW) is here! For the next three years, Texas A&M-Commerce will serve as institutional home for the National Conversation on Writing.

  To learn more go to http://comppile.tamucc.edu/NCoW/.

• Faculty Publications (6/4/2008)

  Shannon Carter-The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction (State University of New York Press, 2008)