✍️✨ Calling All Young Writers! ✨✍️ There’s still time to join Session B of the Young Adult Writing Program at ASU! YAWP offers a supportive, non-evaluative environment where creativity thrives and every voice matters. Session B runs June 15-26.
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"Most of the time, pirates were stealing people’s clothes, picking their pockets and ripping through the cargo." 🏴☠️
—ASU English Professor Prof MNP, a pirate expert and upcoming guest on a "Golden Age of Piracy" Reddit AMA on June 6.
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A few weeks ago, we celebrated our 2025-2026 graduates and award-winners at an event that featured remarks by ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson and Dean's Medalist Emerson Amaya. Then we announced the winner of a brand new scholarship.
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ASU English professor Josh Coleman has won the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in the humanities, which recognizes faculty who have gone above and beyond to help their students succeed.
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We're overjoyed that ASU English professor Ty Defoe was awarded a prestigious 2026 United States Artists Fellowship. 🥳
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ASU neuroscience grad Sammie Harker—also an English alum—competed on Amazon Prime's "Beast Games" reality show as one of the world's "smartest people" earlier this year. She visited with KJZZ Phoenix about the experience.
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University is home to over 1,300 faculty members and enrolls over 31,000 students every semester.Every year, The College recognizes faculty who have gone above and beyond to help their students succeed across its humanities, natural sciences…
Did pirates actually have hooks for hands? Was Sir Walter Raleigh a pirate? What was the most common type of pirate ship?Those questions — and others about the Golden Age of Piracy (from 1650 to 1730) — will be answered by Professor Manushag “Nush” Powell, chair of the Department of English, during a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) discussion on June 6.
One of the contestants on Season 2 of “Beast Games” team is a Ph.D. student at ASU, studying neuroscience. Sammie Harker graduated high school at 16 and finished two degrees at ASU two years later.
☄️"In the mirror, beauty at last visited me like a daytime comet."
From "Ars Poetica as Jacob Wrestling the Angel" by recent ASU creative writing grad Siobhan Jean-Charles.
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ASU English professor Ty Defoe hopes his new one-man puppet show, "Skeleton Canoe," which plays June 19 and 20 at Yale Repertory Theatre, promotes love and understanding.
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Congrats to ASU Regents Professor of English Ayanna Thompson who was named to the American Council of Learned Societies Board of Directors. Thompson's term ends in 2030.
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I'm very very proud of the DNRS lineup - & our pricing which is fair & affordable. Our keynote is the fabulous @stephengrahamjones.com & such amazing writers are joining him. In a word Registration is OPEN & spots are going fast. piper.asu.edu/conference/r... With @asuenglish.bsky.social
