Student Organizations

You'll find the department's faculty and programs focused on making your experience at MSU a success. Undergraduates have a variety of opportunities to get involved in the department.

English Student Organization
The English Student Organization coordinates a variety of extracurricular student activities in English. Participation is voluntary, and officers are chosen by participating students. ESO regularly sponsors poetry and fiction readings, organizes student / faculty mixers, and holds annual or bi-annual book sales. Based upon student interest, ESO coordinates writing groups, reading groups, and trips to attend workshops, conferences, performances, or appearances by contemporary writers. ESO also sponsors one scholarship per year for a deserving English major. To find out how you can get involved, visit the ESO website or our ESO Facebook page.

MSU Philosophy Club
The MSU Philosophy Club seeks to encourage philosophical discussion between students and professors. Dinners, coffee-shop gatherings, movie nights, and other get-togethers are planned for each semester to give students the chance to get to know one another and discuss philosophical issues that are important to them. At times students or professors will present their own work at a meeting, and at other times topics are chosen less formally. In past years, the Philosophy Club has organized a trip to a Philosophy conference so that members can interact with students at other universities, present papers they've written, and listen to talks given by other philosophers. For more information, please contact Dr. Rory Goggins.

Notations
Murray State University's annual student-run literary magazine publishes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and artwork. All work is produced, selected, and published by MSU students. The year-long process of putting the magazine together begins each fall semester when interested students attend organizational meetings to form reading juries and select editors. Submissions are due at the end of the fall semester, and selections are made in the early spring. The magazine appears near the end of the academic year, followed by a campus reading given by contributors. The magazine is free to all MSU students and other interested readers. Please contact Notations editor Tia Johnston with any questions.

Sigma Tau Delta
The department sponsors the Alpha Eta Tau local chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society. Majors and minors in English meeting the organizations academic and membership requirements are eligible to join. For more information, contact Dr. Laura Dawkins.

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