Department of English and Technical Communication

Ethics, race and medicine subject of events at S&T

Posted by on October 29, 2013

New York Times bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will be the focus of three events in November at Missouri S&T.

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Route 66 author to speak at S&T Thursday

Posted by on October 30, 2012

Rolla native Michael Lund, an author of nine novels about Route 66 and the generation that came of age in the Midwest in the ’50s and ’60s, will speak on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1. The lecture will be held in Room 201 Humanities-Social Sciences Building.

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Presidential candidates could get medieval with ‘indirect aggression’ debate tactics

Posted by on September 25, 2012

As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to square off in a series of presidential debates, the candidates and their running mates could go medieval on their opponents by using a rhetorical technique that dates back to Nordic and Germanic legends of the Middle Ages, says a scholar of medieval literature at Missouri University of Science and Technology

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S&T professor to receive award at English conference

Posted by on March 20, 2012

Dr. Edward Malone, associate professor of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will be honored this week for his writing by the National Council of Teachers of English.

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S&T professor co-edits book on visual communication

Posted by on December 1, 2011

Northcut-DesigningText-web150px.jpgTeaching the importance of visual communication in a world increasingly dominated by images is the focus of a new book co-edited by Dr. Kathryn Northcut, associate professor of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology and director of Missouri S&T’s technical communication programs.

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Professor’s book explores Irish-American culture

Posted by on November 10, 2011

Morgan-NewWorldIrish-sm.jpgA new book by Jack Morgan, research professor emeritus of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology, offers new insight into the Irish presence in the United States since the Famine.

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S&T researcher takes on Fight Club

Posted by on November 8, 2011

The first rule of Fight Club, according to Dr. Olivia Burgess, is that we are driven by our own personal utopian ideas, regardless if they end up creating dystopia.

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Swenson named chair of S&T’s English and technical communication department

Posted by on October 12, 2010

Dr. Kristine Swenson has been named chair of the English and technical communication department at Missouri University of Science and Technology, effective Sept. 1, 2010.

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Tribute planned for S&T’s Shakespearean scholar Knight

Posted by on February 15, 2010

Missouri University of Science and Technology’s department of arts, languages and philosophy, and Arts Rolla! will host a tribute to Dr. W. Nicholas Knight, professor emeritus of English and technical communication at S&T. The event will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in the Parish Hall of Christ Episcopal Church, 10th and Main streets, in Rolla.

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Students get inside info, extraordinary experience at fort

Posted by on September 21, 2009

Fort Leonard Wood has been in the Ozarks for nearly 70 years, but what goes on there is a mystery to many in this area. Three university students are working to change that by making the military base’s internal operations more accessible and understandable to the outside world.

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