June 2007
Dr. John Han served as a Reader at the College Board’s 2007 Advanced Placement (AP) English Language & Composition Reading, Daytona Beach, Florida, June 2007.
May 20-21, 2007
Dr. John Han delivered a paper at the 31st Conference of the John Steinbeck Society of Japan, in Tokyo, May 20-21, 2007. During his stay in Japan, he also visited the Kamakura Museum of Japanese Literature.
March 22, 2007
The English Department held its first Creative Writing Club meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2007. Almost thirty students and faculty attended the event. After the opening remarks by Dr. John Marino and Dr. Mary Bagley, Dr. John Han read a dozen of his haiku poems to the audience.
February 6, 2007
Dr. John Marino moderated a discussion of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at Borders, February 6, 2007. Approximately thirty people, including a Parkway South High School English class and the full-time MBU English faculty, attended the event.
January 19, 2007
Dr. John Marino performed mostly original songs, poetry set to music, at Solid Rock Kaffee Haus in Eureka, MO, January 19, 2007. Professors Mary Bagley, Mary Ellen Fuquay, and John Han attended the event.
December 5, 2006
Dr. John Marino, Assistant Professor of English, moderated a discussion of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath at Borders in Creve Coeur, December 5, 2006. Forty-seven people, including a Parkway South High School English class and MBU faculty and students in English, attended the event. This was the English Department’s first venture into the community, and it was well received by the participants.
November 28, 2006
Dr. John Han delivered a guest lecture on the Korean lyric tradition and Mr. Song Su-kwon’s poetry at Winona State University, MN, on November 28, 2006.
June 22-23 2006
In June 2006, Dr. John Han delivered papers at two conferences, held in South Korea and China, respectively. The pictures posted here were taken at Qingdao University, China, where a group of American and Chinese scholars met to discuss issues related to global education.
