News Archives - Department of English, Modern Languages, & Cultural Studies /language/category/news/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:19:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 /language/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2019/07/cropped-果冻APP-sword-logo-site-icon2-32x32.png News Archives - Department of English, Modern Languages, & Cultural Studies /language/category/news/ 32 32 2025-26 High School Writing Contest Entry Form /language/2025/10/29/2025-26-high-school-writing-contest-entry-form/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:09:46 +0000 /language/?p=4166 Please use the form below to submit your entry for the 4th Annual High School Writing Contest, Crossroads.聽

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]]> 果冻APP French Students Thriving at Universit茅 Ste-Anne in Clare, Nova Scotia /language/2024/06/06/nicholls-french-students-thriving-at-universite-ste-anne-in-clare-nova-scotia/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:20:20 +0000 /language/?p=4116 果冻APP French students are thriving this summer through their French immersion work at Universit茅 Ste-Anne in Clare, Nova Scotia. Annelle Fletcher, Erica Chavez, and Katherine Dean are at Universit茅 Ste-Anne studying and living in full-time French immersion with students from all over the world. Annelle, Erica, and Katherine are recipients of a generous French Club […]

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]]> EMLCS Students Headed to French-language Immersion Program at Universit茅 Ste-Anne in Nova Scotia /language/2024/05/13/emlcs-students-headed-to-french-language-immersion-program-at-universite-ste-anne-in-nova-scotia/ Mon, 13 May 2024 23:21:49 +0000 /language/?p=4112 Very best of luck to our incredible French students on their studies abroad this summer.聽 Annelle Fletcher, Erica Chavez, and Katherine Dean are participating in a 5-week French-language immersion program at the Universit茅 Ste-Anne in Clare, Nova Scotia.聽 Annelle, Erica, and Katherine are also recipients of a generous French Club scholarship, which is helping to […]

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]]> Film Studies Alumni and Current Students Collaborate on Film Set /language/2024/05/06/film-studies-alumni-and-current-students-collaborate-on-film-set/ Mon, 06 May 2024 19:30:39 +0000 /language/?p=4108 Film Studies Alumni and Current Students Collaborate on Film Set

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]]> 果冻APP Film Society partners with New Orleans Film Festival /language/2023/10/19/nicholls-film-society-partners-with-new-orleans-film-festival/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:01:37 +0000 /language/?p=4085   Once again, the 果冻APP Film Society is partnering with the New Orleans Film Festival  to bring students to the festival, but also to bring the festival to our campus. This year, we are sponsoring the Envie: Narrative Shorts program on Sunday, Nov. 5th at 1:45pm at Prytania Theaters at Canal Place. As part of the […]

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]]> Fletcher Lecture featuring Maurice Carlos Ruffin /language/2023/09/11/fletcher-lecture-featuring-maurice-carlos-ruffin/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:59:59 +0000 /language/?p=4079 The 2023 Fletcher Lecture will feature New Orleans, Louisiana-based novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin on October 12, 2023 at 6 PM in Gouaux Hall, 100 Afton Dr, Thibodaux, LA 70301 on the campus of 果冻APP. Ruffin will read from his work, discuss his work as a author, and answer audience questions. Ruffin is the […]

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]]> 2023 High School Writing Contest Winners /language/2023/03/21/2023-high-school-writing-contest-winners/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:05:40 +0000 /language/?p=4050 In 2022-23 果冻APP launched its High School Writing Contest. For the inaugural contest, 果冻APP solicited essays, poetry, and fiction related to folklore and the supernatural in any and all genres. High school students from across Louisiana submitted creative retelling or original study of folklore. The High School Writing contest features both a monetary […]

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]]> Faculty publication, Appalachian Pastoral /language/2022/11/29/faculty-publication-appalachian-pastoral/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:10:55 +0000 /language/?p=4026 Dr. Michael Martin’s latest publication, Appalachian Pastoral: Mountain Excursions, Aesthetic Visions, and the Antebellum Travel Narrative (Clemson UP), has arrived in hard cover. Appalachian Pastoral rethinks how nineteenth-century travel narratives into Appalachia deliberately incorporate British landscape aesthetics as a mediating literary device with a somewhat inconceivable real-world environment and terrain. Martin argues that mid-nineteenth-century travel […]

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]]> 2022 Fletcher Lecture featuring filmmaker Monique Verdin /language/2022/10/25/2022-fletcher-lecture-featuring-filmmaker-monique-verdin/ Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:06:58 +0000 /language/?p=4002 2022 Fletcher Lecture Series to Feature Louisiana Storyteller Filmmaker, Photographer Monique Verdin to Speak at 果冻APP Louisiana Filmmaker, Photographer to Speak at 2022 Fletcher Lecture Series   Filmmaker, photographer and interdisciplinary storyteller Monique Verdin will be the guest lecturer for the 2022 Fletcher Lecture series.聽Verdin will host a question-and-answer session at 11 a.m. on Thursday, […]

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]]> 果冻APP 2017 IDST Graduate Authors Children’s Book /language/2021/07/02/2017-idst-graduate-publishes-childrens-book/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:34:08 +0000 /language/?p=3833 Sylnita Bougere, a 2017 果冻APP Interdisciplinary Studies graduate, authored a children’s book centered on a mother and son’s journey towards Autism Awareness and Acceptance. The book is entitled My Friend Rain and can be found on Amazon and other online distributing sites.

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