Briar Cliff alumni featured at Phil Hey Reading Series

Briar Cliff University will host its annual Prairie Fire Lecture Series at 7 p.m. on March 26 in the St. Francis Center on the Briar Cliff campus. This year’s presentation, “This Is Me,” will highlight the unique challenges immigrant and refugee learners face and strategies to assist them. ...

Briar Cliff University English and Writing Associate Professor Dr. Matthew Pangborn has recently published an article for the Journal of American Culture entitled “The Zombie Apocalypse Is a Failed Energy Transition.” ...

Matthew Pangborn, associate professor of English and writing at Briar Cliff University, has recently authored a book examining late 18th and early 19th-century narratives by Americans writing from the imagined perspective of fictive Eastern travelers. ...

The Briar Cliff Review, Briar Cliff University’s award-winning annual literary journal, will celebrate 30 years of publication with a reception, gallery talk and reading on Thursday, April 19 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Sioux City Art Center. ...

Briar Cliff University will host a poetry reading by Jeanne Emmons on Wednesday, February 28, at 7 p.m. in Meis Recital Hall in Heelan Hall on the BCU campus. This event is free and open to the public. ...

As a young girl growing up in Treynor, Iowa, Jamie Jacobsen remembered falling in love with all of the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books. ...

Tricia Currans-Sheehan loves the "new book smell" — the aroma of the ink that lingers on freshly printed editions of The Briar Cliff Review, the internationally renowned literary magazine she has been editing for nearly three decades. ...

Art and writing double major Sonia Perea-Morales has been selected to present her work at the annual Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. ...

For quite possibly the first time in her life, Nicole Wengert let out a frightened scream in the middle of class. ...

At its core, a good memoir is like the lens of a camera. So says Tim Bascom, the Iowa author who spoke recently at Briar Cliff University. ...

Briar Cliff students discuss horror in literature during a three-credit course taught by BCU assistant English professor Matthew Pangborn. ...

When Matthew Pangborn reads about zombies, he sees parables about the dangers of climate change, the decay of urban centers and the relationship between parents and their children. ...

For the past 28 years, the Briar Cliff Review has become an internationally-renowned literary magazine that gives up-and-coming writers and artists their first major exposure. ...

It was the weapon that was wielded by Attila the Hun, the spear of choice of Charles the Great, the lance sought (but never found) by Napoleon, and an artifact reputedly stolen by Adolf Hitler. ...

When Jeanne Emmons reads poetry, she hears music and rhythm in addition to words. ...