It's almost time to send your poetry that "evokes a connection to place" to the $1K Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize contest, which accepts submissions Nov. 23 to Jan. 31. ASU English Chair Prof MNP is on this year's selection committee.

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Capping off Banned Books Week, ASU English professor Josh Coleman was part of a Humanities Institute event that discussed the effects of declining access to books on college education.

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Non/Fiction Friday: "Humor in Mavis Gallant’s stories is important for its leavening effects; her wit is sly, slightly wicked, never mean."

—ASU Professor Emeritus Melissa Pritchard.

Read more in The Marvelous Paragraph Project: https://ow.ly/lA4E50ZKXi2 #ASUHumanities

You'll find qapla' (success) in this spring '27 course 🖖Learn basic methods of linguistic analysis using systems like Klingon, High Valyrian and Dovahzul—languages created for T.V. & games in ENG 294: Fictional Languages.

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In a record year for ASU Fulbrights, English professor Claudia Sadowski-Smith was awarded a Fulbright to teach and research migration literature at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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The Department of English at ASU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, with a focus to include teaching, research and scholarship in Indigenous literature, media, language or related fields. Apply by Oct. 30.

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Level up in spring '27! 🎲 ENG 294: Dungeons and Dragons! is a gamified course examining the origins, literary influences & cultural controversies behind the “World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game.”

No experience needed! Register/add to favs on ASU Class Search: https://ow.ly/8PK050ZU7EE #ASUHumanities

🏢(Non)Fiction Friday: "It turned out that infiltrating the Danube Institute just required online registration."

From an essay by ASU English professor Brian K Goodman, subtitled "A Report from Postliberal Budapest."

Read more in The Drift: https://ow.ly/G8iH50ZSsNZ #ASUHumanities

With fall semester in full swing, let's meet a few ASU English faculty in the trenches. New, or new-in-their-roles are: Maeghan Bowman, Reza Dalman, Ayling Dominguez, Andrew Dana Hudson, Patti Jones, Kathleen McNamara, Cecilia Savala & Marlene Tovar.

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Another spring '27 ASU course for your consideration 🌍 CTE 310: Elements of Culture, Technology & Environment brings humanistic understanding to the four ancient elements 🌱🌪️🔥🌊 Taught via ASU Online + as an iCourse for campus students.

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"ASU’s Jeffrey J Cohen, a self-described 'medievalist' and 'higher ed optimist,' says colleges will survive threats posed by the technology. And he says blaming students for being lazy or less dedicated than previous generations is hardly new."

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Here's a spring '27 ASU course that'll spark insight✨ ENG 240: Intro to Narrative Studies examines the power of storytelling, in all its beauty and danger. Taught by Brandi K. Adams (ASU Online) and Christine Holbo (Tempe campus).

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🧠 (Non)Fiction Friday: "Neurodiversity is the next frontier for studying human subjectivity at large."

—From an essay by ASU English professor Bradley Irish, a historical neurodiversity researcher.

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Coming spring '27 at ASU 🔍 Brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, traitors, secret codes, hidden identities and more, in ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction taught by Prof. Brian K Goodman.

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Hope you can join the ASU Book Group on Sep. 24 to discuss cultivating spaces of belonging, navigating language policies, and exploring the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in “MeXicana Roots and Routes.” Noon, online and in Hayden Library. All welcome.

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📣 ASU students 📣 Thinking about spring '27 courses? Here's one that's plug-and-play—FMS 100: Intro to Film & Media Studies. 🎞️ Learn media analysis skills (+ enjoy the homework!) on Tempe campus or ASU Online.

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CC: K. Morrissey

You knew we taught writing … but did you know about culture, technology and environment?! 🤯

Find out how you can study what you love (education! literature! film! media! narrative! rhetoric!) in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

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😶‍🌫️Fiction Friday: "Then one day, we woke and looked to the sky, and found his word written in the clouds: giant letters spelling out an enormous 'WHOOPS.'"

ASU student Peter Hong has won a Pushcart Prize for his short story, "Golgori."

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#ASUHumanities students: Hit the ground running at the upcoming ASU Fall 2026 Undergraduate Career & Internship Fair with help from an interactive prep session on Sep. 21.

Join us in person or online! Info: https://ow.ly/lqfl50ZNzNy

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, ASU Book Group discusses "MeXicana Roots and Routes" on Sep. 24. Editor Anita Huizar-Hernández of ASU Sch. of Int'l Letters & Cultures is our guest.

Join us! https://ow.ly/KPCc50ZNyYY #ASUHumanities CC: Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University