Who: UP students (you don’t have to be an English major!) What: We we need UP students to commit at least 2 hours each week for the semester as a writing consultant/tutor at RHS When: the next training will be held before the end of September Where: RHS is less than 2 miles from campus Why: It’s…
6 Student Internships Available at the Oregon Jewish Museum
There are 6 new student internships available if you are interested in working with the Oregon Jewish Museum. The positions available are… Archive Student Internship Collection and Exhibition Internship Oregon Jewish Sound Archive Student Internship Gallery Internship Education Internship Media and Marketing Internship If you are interested in any of these positions please contact Dr….
Online Magazine for College Women Seeks Writers
Her Campus is the #1 online community for college women. Written entirely by the nation’s top college journalists – with 3,000+ contributors and counting – HerCampus.com features national content on Style, Health, Love, Life, and Career supplemented by local content from 200+ campus chapters across the country. In addition, Her Campus offers a daily…
Win a $700 Scholarship
StayFitInCollege.org Announces Scholarship Awards: $700 Scholarship Award StayFitInCollege.org, which promotes fitness in college, has just announced scholarship awards for the 2012/2013 academic year. There is no purchase necessary to apply for the scholarship. The scholarship award aims to help students avoid the dreaded freshman 15. Any student that attends a university, community college, or even…
Human Rights Job Opportunity
Do you want to be a part of social change? Here’s your chance! The Fund for the Public Interest is looking for smart, hard-working students who work well in a team and are eager to work for change. The Fund for the Public Interest (aka “the Fund”) helps some of the top progressive organizations in…
Creative Writing Submissions Needed
Antioch University Los Angeles’ creative writing MFA program’s biannual publication, Lunch Ticket, is accepting submissions for its second issue. Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, YA fiction, Art/Image submissions are welcome. Lunch Ticket welcomes diverse and quality work, regardless of theme. Visit Lunch Ticket’s Website or Facebook page, for submission guidelines….
Faculty Summers
While the students of the UP English Department have been working, interning, or even just relaxing over the summer, our professors have kept themselves busy as well! Here are some reports, directly from our faculty, about their eventful summers: “Early in the summer I went to a Nature Writing conference in upstate New York, where panelists…
Welcome to the UP English Blog
Welcome to the University of Portland English Department Blog! Please browse around and see all that’s going on in our department, with our students, and in our community and discipline more broadly. This blog is for: Current Students — to provide information about department events, internship opportunities, author readings, and the state of the field of…
Literary Events Around Portland: September
UP and the English Department bring talented authors and poets to campus every year. But did you know that there are also regular readings and lectures around Portland all the time? We plan to post monthly to the blog about these literary events. Please attend and remember to Keep Portland Weird! www.powells.com…
Norton Anthology Recitation Contest
www.tumblr.com Couldn’t every English major could use an extra $150 dollars to Barnes and Noble? Or how about your name listed in the “acknowledgments” portion of a Norton Anthology? All you have to do is recite a work of literature just the way you want to for the second annual Norton Anthology Student Recitation Contest! Here are…