The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) Department of English announces the launch of the UCO Writing Center in collaboration with the Broncho Education and Learning Lab (BELL). Located in the UCO Liberal Arts Building, room 131, the Writing Center is poised to become a vital resource for students seeking personalized assistance with any writing assignment. […]
When good poetry reaches us, it stirs something we struggle to describe, a part of ourselves that is ever-present and expansive, even if it is too often underfed. This is what the liberal arts seeks to study and to preserve, the part that knew how to sing before it understood anything at all. That song […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honors students for outstanding academic achievement at its 2023 student honors and award ceremony on April 19, 2024 at the College of Liberal arts building lecture hall room LAS L01. This evening’s celebration invites us to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of our Liberal Arts students and on the […]
The University of Central Oklahoma Department of English is proud to announce the winners of the latest bi-annual contest cycle for the Everett Southwest Literary Award. The contest is generously sponsored by the Mark Allen Everett family and called for short story manuscripts from authors residing in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Contest director and […]
Dr. Wayne Stein, Professor of English, delivered a talk titled “Resilience Against Cancer: Thriving Amidst Adversity” on April 14, 2021 as part of the TEDxUCO series. Stein discussed the ways in which he has used the path of the mindful warrior and the weapon of positivity to overcome painful adversities while battling cancer during the […]
The Chaddlesone Arts and Letters Lecture Series guest speaker for 2022 is Jim Gray. He spoke at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 in the Liberal Arts Lecture Hall, LAS L01. Jim Gray is a former Principal Chief of the Osage Nation (2002-2010) and former publisher (1996-2002) of the Native American Times, the largest […]
Zachary Scalzo joins UCO’s Department of English as an Artist-in Residence. Scalzo earned his M.F.A. in Drama– Playwriting from the University of Calgary in 2020. He also holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature– Translation Studies from Florida Atlantic University. Two plays by Scalzo (“Us” and “Taking […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honored its exceptional students at the 2022 Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 29 at the UCO College of Liberal Arts South Wing Lecture Hall. Letter from the Interim Dean It is one of my greatest privileges as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts to welcome […]
Dr. Wendy Barnes, Artist in Residence in the Department of English, was recently awarded a New Jersey Council for the Arts fellowship for her memoir The Hunger Year. Dr. Barnes will be reading, on April 21, as part of the University of Oklahoma’s Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series. Barnes recently participated in a reading of […]
Dr. Wayne Stein, Professor of English, will deliver a talk titled “Resilience Against Cancer: Thriving Amidst Adversity” on April 14 as part of the TEDxUCO series. Dr. Stein will discuss the ways in which he has used the path of the mindful warrior and the weapon of positivity to overcome painful adversities while battling cancer […]
