10.1.26 5-8pm

Join the Doane University English Program, our students, alumni, and friends, around the Smith Hall fire pit for our semi-annual fall kickoff picnic and first Fireside chat of the year. Enjoy friends, food, and conversation around an open fire. We anticipate starting around 5pm and going until the sun sets. It is a casual come-and-go affair, so please consider stopping by the Smith Hall fire pit after work or practice to mingle with the Doane community.

10.29.26 6pm

Join the Doane University English Program and Phi Sigma Tau sorority for the fifth annual “Ghosts of Gaylord” event in Gaylord Hall, Room 213. Enjoy Halloween tricks and treats and a screening of a scary movie with the ghosts that inhabit Doane's oldest building. Also enjoy special Halloween Phi Sig Rolls! Doors open at 5:30pm. Film starts at 6pm.

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The annual Lucille Cobb Memorial Lecture Series is funded by an endowment in memory of Dr. Cobb, professor of English at Doane from 1959-69. Former Doane students remember Dr. Cobb as a teacher of writing, 17th-century literature, Shakespeare, and senior seminar. She received a degree in law from Washington University in St. Louis in 1926, and in 1956, a Ph.D. from the same institution, with the dissertation “John Donne and Common Law.” During her tenure at Doane, Lucille Cobb inspired students to develop as thinkers and writers. The Lectureship is intended to broaden public awareness of the art of thoughtful writing by presenting talented, successful authors. Over the years, the Lucille Cobb Memorial Lecture Series has welcomed an impressive array of writers and scholars including Dr. Rita Charon (2020), Tom Robbins, Frank Deford, and many more.

4.29.27 6pm

Join us for a casual reception on Thursday, April 29 at 6pm in the Perry Campus Center’s East/West Dining Room on Doane University’s campus in Crete, Nebraska. Enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation as we unveil the 2027 edition of Xanadu, Doane's art and literary magazine since 1956. We will celebrate this year's edition with a live reading by several of our talented student contributors from programs across campus.