Welcome to the Humanities weekly newsletter, the Lindsay Bulletin Board 📌
Do you have an event, opportunity, or course you would like to feature in our newsletter? Please email madison.stokes@chatham.edu before Thursday evening for it to be included! The last opportunity to feature events and opportunities for this semester will be on Friday, December 5.
NOTE: Our FINAL publication of the Lindsay Bulletin Board of the semester will be on Friday, December 12. We welcome you to share your favorite photos/memories from this Fall semester as a way to collectively look back at a great semester!
Link to submit content for final newsletter: Last Newsletter – Friday, December 12
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On-Campus Events
MFA Creative Writing Informational Panel
Date: Wednesday, December 3
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Coolidge 134 (second floor of the Falk, Braun, Coolidge building)
Event Description: This is an on-campus event for undergraduates and postgraduates interested in pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. You will have the opportunity to ask questions to the students and faculty in our program. This event will take the form of a one-hour panel, with MFA students and faculty.
For more information please contact Rowen Slepian at Rowen.Slepian@chatham.edu
Humanities Senior Mugging: A Graduation Celebration
Date: Friday, December 5
Time: 4 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Location: Mellon Living Room
* Seniors – please RVSP to c.helms@chatham.edu
December 2025 Graduation Celebration
Date: Tuesday, December 2
Time: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Mellon Board Room
Registration Required: (https://www.chatham.edu/_events/verify.cfm?EventID=34092)
Event description: Undergraduate students graduating from the College of Arts & Sciences, School of Business & Enterprise, Falk School of Sustainability & Environment, and the College of Health Sciences.
English 368: Writing Poetry – Dr. Sheila Squillante’s Class Reading
Date: Wednesday, December 10
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Location: Mellon Living Room
Call for Submissions
The MSU Roadrunner Review 8th issue
The MSU Roadrunner Review is a student-driven literary journal out of the Creative Writing program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Please visit this link to view their first seven editions: https://sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerreview/
MSU Roadrunner Review will consider work not just from students, but all writers. Their reading period is Nov 1-15 and the edition will launch in December 2025. All work should be submitted through Submittable. https://msuroadrunnerreview.submittable.com/submit
Work up for consideration:
Fiction – 3,200 words or less (flash fiction under 550 words will also be considered).
Creative Nonfiction –3,200 words or less (flash CNF under 550 words will also be considered).
Poetry – of no more than two single spaced pages. Each poem must be submitted individually.
NOTE: The MSU Roadrunner Review does not consider work with any AI generated content. Multiple submissions are fine, but each must be submitted individually.
Elderfly Press
Theme: Beautiful & Terrifying: Tales & Visions From the Edge of the Uncanny
Work up for consideration:
Short fiction: up to 5,000 words
Poetry: up to 5 poems per submission
Black-and-white art
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Website and submission link: https://writeontheworld.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
For more information please contact Mandy Webster at mandy.webster@elderflybooks.com.
Career Development Corner
Humanities Student Assistant – Spring Semester 2026
Core Responsibilities Include:
1. Faculty and Staff Assistance: Assist Humanities faculty and staff with daily tasks including copying, scanning, filing, inter-office mail, and keeping Lindsay House organized and tidy.
2. Event Support: Collaborate with the Humanities faculty and staff to organize and execute department-related events, workshops (specifically the monthly writing workshop Holding Space on the Page), and information sessions. Assist with event promotion, logistics, registration, and day-of event management.
3. Social media and Newsletter: Collaborate with Humanities faculty and staff to compose and share content for department social media and program email newsletters.
4. Peer-to-Peer Engagement: Partner with Humanities faculty and staff to engage with fellow students and promote the Humanities department through outreach activities, classroom presentations, and student organization partnerships.
Application Link: Student Work at Chatham
Faculty Professor Teaching Associate * Full-Time
The English Department at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes applications for an Appointment Stream Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate Professor position, primarily in the Writing Program, to begin the fall semester of 2026.
Job description:
– The department is specifically interested in candidates who have an established track record in successfully teaching introductory and intermediate creative writing classes, of both single- and multi-genre focus, especially in poetry and poetic literature.
-The successful candidate will also be able to teach capstone-level courses, requiring intensive group and individual work with a small class of upper-level students, with demonstrated experience in fostering student professional development.
– The selected candidate will also have experience in Literature pedagogy and be prepared to teach courses in 20th- and 21st- century literature from a historical perspective.
-The English department is especially interested in applicants who have taught first-year writing and who are interested in contributing to our development of cross-programmatic curricula.
-Applicants must hold an MFA degree in Creative Writing or a related field.
Review of applicants will begin December 1, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. The appointment requires administrative and budgetary approval. The position is scheduled to begin on August 15, 2026.
For more information on job description, the application process, and requirements, visit:
(Job Description – Faculty Professor Teaching Associate – Full-Time (25006061)
Casa de Esperanza: Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Program
Description: caring for infants and children up to age six who are at risk for abuse and neglect in Houston, TX
“Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Members will serve vulnerable children throughout a 12-month commitment, living in a private, gated community (at no cost) and receiving a living allowance. Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Members will work collaboratively with other AmeriCorps Members in the home to ensure that children’s physical, emotional, and mental needs are met. While the commitment is only one year, the impact AmeriCorps Members have on the children in their care is lifelong. In turn, the children’s strength, resilience, and love will also make a lifelong impact on them.” – Darean Talmadge, Human Resources Coordinator, Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos, Inc.
Duration of program: September 2026 – August 2027
For more information, please contact Darean Talmadge, (713) 529-0639, dtalmadge@casahope.org
Application link: https://forms.office.com/r/St0UmVLKH4
Humanities Highlights
🎉 Congratulations to Bella White ’27 and Chatham Alum Sydney Altfather ’25 for being recognized at the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh’s annual scholarship dinner, which was held in the Strip District on Nov. 12.
White is the recipient of a scholarship award from the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh. They are a double major in English and Communication: Journalism with a French minor and serve as the Communiqué editor-in-chief. White competed earlier this fall in the press club’s annual Gertrude Gordon Scholarship Contest and earned third place for a profile piece she wrote on deadline.
Altfather, who graduated with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communication: Public Relations and Women & Gender Studies, along with a Communication: Journalism minor and a Women’s Leadership certificate, was one of three young professionals to receive the inaugural Helen Fallon Young Communicator Award, which includes a stipend for professional development.
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