Department of
Languages and Literature

The Creative Writing Reading Series is an event sponsored by the Department of Language and Literature and the English Society. These readings give the students of Nicholls a chance to read their creative writing in a relaxed environment. All students are welcome regardless of major! If you are interested in reading your work please contact Dr. Kathy Conner.

For the Fall 2011 semester, the Creative Writing Series will take place at the Colonels Retreat in the Student Union on the following days:

September 21 at 6 p.m.
October 19 at 6 p.m.
November 9 at 6 p.m.

During the Louisiana Academy of Sciences Conference, two languages and literature faculty members were represented.  Dr. Scott Banville presented “I doubt; I fear; I think strange things’: Dracula and the Anxiety of Knowing” in the Science and Humanities division of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences’ 85th Meeting, February 26, 2011 at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, Monroe, LA.  Allen Alexander presented “The Professor ‘blinded me with science’: Scientific Inquiry as a Catalyst for Student Engagement in the Humanities” during the same session–Science and the Humanities Division.  History major Nick Black was selected best oral presentation in the Sciences and Humanities.

Follow the link to a list of the courses for Spring 2012
Follow this link for Foreign Languages at Nicholls

Dr. Scott Banville, Ph. D., Ohio State University; areas of specialization:  19th Century British Literature; Rhetoric and Composition with digital rhetoric and new media

Ellen Chauvin, M. A., Louisiana State University; areas of specialization:  Medieval Literature; Renaissance Literature; Mythic/Epic Literature

Dr. Richmond Eustis, Ph. D., Louisiana State University; 2010 Recipient of LSU’s Distinguished Dissertation Award:  areas of specialization:  Comparative Literature; Spanish

Dr. Kathy Conner, Ph. D., Florida State University; areas of specialization: Creative Writing — fiction; Short Story and Novel

Dr. Todd Kennedy, Ph. D., University of South Carolina; areas of specialization:  Modern and Post-Modern American Literature; Film

Nick Mainieri, MFA, University of New Orleans; areas of specialization: Creative Writing — fiction, creative non-fiction; Post-Modern British and American Literature

Jenna Portier, M. A., Northwestern State University; Generalist

Marly Robertson, M. A., University of New Orleans; areas of specialization:   American Literature; British Literature after 1660

Dr. Bryant Smith, Ph. D., Louisiana State University; areas of specialization:  Spanish and Linguistics

Jay Udall, MFA, New England College; M. A. George Washington University; areas of specialization:  Creative Writing — poetry, creative non-fiction; Modern and Post-modern American Literature

Dr. Robin White, Ph. D., Louisiana State University; areas of specialization:  Comparative Literature, Children and Young Adult Literature; French