Statement of Solidarity and Commitment
Tony McDade. Breonna Taylor. Manuel Ellis. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Rayshard Brooks.
These are the most recent lives we have lost at the hands of law enforcement and state-sanctioned
violence in the United States, largely motivated by anti-Black racism and backed up
by white supremacy. These murders occur at a time of overwhelming loss, when the pandemic
has already caused tremendous suffering, particularly to people of color.
The Department of English at the University of Toledo stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests throughout the country and world that call for racial justice and an end to police violence and brutality. We are proud of those of you ..... read the complete statement here
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The English Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs and courses in literature, creative writing, and linguistics, and houses the Composition Program. The department awards a number of scholarships to our students, including the Shapiro Senior Scholarship. English majors are also eligible for humanities scholarships.
Annually the English Department holds the Shapiro Writing Contest. Students taking writing classes at any level are encouraged to compete.
English department faculty are widely published in literary criticism, rhetoric and composition studies, linguistics, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
The Aureole Press is housed in the department’s typography lab,
Our undergraduate and graduate students have gone on to graduate programs in English Literature, Linguistics, Creative Writing, Education, English as a Second Language, Library Science, Law, and many other fields, and to careers in teaching, journalism, publishing, bookselling, university administration, librarianship, marketing, and innumerable other areas in which reading and writing are essential. Recent graduates of our MA and BA programs have built on the coursework and mentoring they have received from the department to be successful within and outside academia.
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Retired University of Toledo professor, Claudia Jane Bradley, 64, passed away unexpectedly on September 20, 2020 from natural causes.
Jane is survived by her daughter, Susan Falco; her brother, Ben Biggs; her sister,
Toni Walker; and the many friends, extended family members, and former students who
loved her. She graduated with honors from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
and went on to receive an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University,
before embarking on a teaching career at Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, and finally
at the University of Toledo, where she was a beloved teacher of creative writing in
the English Department for over thirty years. She received the University of Toledo
Outstanding Research Award in 2012. Of Jane's several books, her short story collection
Power Lines was a New York Times Notable Book, and her novel, You Believers, landed on a dozen Best Book of the Year lists.
The family asks that donations be made in Jane’s name to the CUE Center for Missing Persons.