Digital desserts make history

Sweets & Tweets cover

English class publishes The Redbird’s Word: Sweets and Tweets, a review of desserts at local eateries. The book is entirely digital and interactive with Twitter.

English faculty hosts Daniel Defoe conference

Daniel Defoe Conference

Associate Professor Katherine Ellison organized and hosted the Defoe Society’s third biennial conference, “Global Defoe: His Times and His Contemporaries,” on August 9-10.

English welcomes new technical communication faculty

Elise Verzosa Hurley

Elise Verzosa Hurley is a new assistant professor of English at Illinois State. She joins the Department of English from the University of Arizona, where she recently earned her Ph.D. in rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English.