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Nina Li Coomes, Creativity, and the True Power of Imagination
The English Department is excited to welcome Nina Coomes to our major. She is a Lecturer and Japanese/American writer who believes in helping each student protect the flame of creativity that lives inside of them. I was able to sit down with Nina to learn a little more about her history and what goals she has to her students and herself.
Meet New Faculty Member: Dr. Spencer Tricker
Dr. Spencer Tricker is one of three new hires that the English Department has welcomed this year. Hailing from Florida with an M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, from the University of Central Florida and a Ph.D. in English, from the University of Miami, Dr. Tricker brings a focus in comparative ethnic American literature with emphases on Asian American and Pacific Islander writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Congratulations to the 2025 Sharon Walsh Essay Contest Winners!
Please join the English Department in congratulating this year鈥檚 winners of the Sharon Walsh Essay Contest. This is an annual contest that was established in honor of Dr. Sharon Walsh, a much-valued and long-time Writing Instructor in the Writing Program and English Department here at Loyola.
The Amy Lowell Letters Project Awarded NEH Grant
The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is thrilled to announce that the Amy Lowell Letters Project (directed by Dr. Melissa Bradshaw, English)聽has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities聽in the聽Scholarly Editions and Translations聽category.聽 Over the next 36 months, this grant will support the creation an open-access, digital edition of the letters of American poet, editor, and critic Amy Lowell (1874鈥�1925).
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