Student Organizations

The Department of English sponsors a chapter of the international English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta. Membership is open to undergraduate English and English Education majors, graduate students, and faculty members. Mercer's chapter, Tau Upsilon, seeks to support, stimulate, and strengthen the programs of English majors and to bestow national recognition for achievement and academic excellence on the Department's outstanding students.

Students interested in Sigma Tau Delta membership must:

1. declare a major or minor in English;
2. complete two English courses beyond FYS 102;
3. maintain a minimum 3.00 GPA in English; and,
4. have completed at least three semesters of course work.

Members will receive and be eligible to publish their works in the Society's publication, The Rectangle. They will also receive the STD Newsletter and be eligible for the STD key, the Society's prestigious Writer's Degree, Honor Degree and insignia, and Distinguished Service Degree and insignia. Sigma Tau Delta members also can compete for scholarships, fellowships, and cash prizes for writing. Additionally, the organization holds an international convention every two years. Lifetime membership in STD is $37.00. If you would like a T-Shirt you may purchase it for an additional $10.00.

New Sigma Tau Delta inductees for 2008:

Margaret Heinen	Corbin Parker
Alicia Jonah	Billie Pritchard
Deborah Jones	Kasey Robinson
Meredith McCormick	Richard Robinson
Meredith Milligan	Hannah Smith
Patrina Mitchell

New Sigma Tau Delta inductees for 2009:

Jaclyn Crumbley	Kathleen Quinlan
Jennifer Flowers	Rebecca Reed
Aimee Green	Matthew Robinson
Jillian Isaac	Nicholas Tomko
Elizabeth Jasperse	Molly Trover
Kelly Nightingale

                             

 

New Sigma Tau Delta inductees for 2010:

Brian Adams	Reshauna Edwards	Jan Jones
Courtney Bailey	Matthew Gorgans	Stephen Kearse
Rachael Bishop	Leeanne Griffin	Cameron Kunzelman
Abagail Bloodworth	Megan Hamrick	Jaemon McLeod
Kara Brown	Katelyn Harrell	Shea Simmons
Colin Bryan	Christina Hennecken	Allen Whitlock
James Coleman	James Hood	Mary Wiley

                         

 

New Sigma Tau Delta inductees for 2011:

Kristen Blackwell	Deborah Harris	Amanda Rountree
Brittany Crosby	Brittani Howell	Kathryne Scott
Javon Denson	Beth Manley	Kyle Shook
Ross Hardy	Sean Rayburn	Jennifer Smith

          

 

                     Willingham Garden Society

                               

The Garden Society was originally created by students in a course in 17th century poetry and prose to bring the poems outside, going beyond the classroom and even the text, to experience them as living, breathing and natural, a presence we could share, rather than something alien, from long ago and far away.

The 1989 Peter Weir film “Dead Poets Society” inspired the Garden Society’s meetings. Just like in the film, students meet to read their favorite poems to one another. Different from the film is the attendance of the students’ professors, who also read from their favorite selections. In the film, the students find a release in the poetry they read in secret at night. Mercer students wanted to have an outdoor reading of poems, and people could join in as they pleased.

Anyone is welcome to come and read a favorite poem from any author!

 

 

The Mercer Shakespeare Society

                                                                  

The Mercer Shakespeare Society is an organization of students, faculty, and staff who, following Ben Jonson’s lead, find in Shakespeare’s works a source of inspiration and delight that is “not of an age but for all time,” including our own, here and now in the twenty-first century.   Members of the Society  meet

   regularly to read from Shakespeare’s works,

   share favorite passages, hear speakers from

   the worlds of literature and theatre, view

   films, and attend performances and other

   Shakespearean events.  We welcome everyone

   with an interest in and love for all things

   Shakespeare; please join us and help “give

   life” to the beauty and power of the Bard’s

   works here, at Mercer University!

Some Shakespeareans with the Be the

Shakes-Bear Stick (a.k.a. Titania's Wand)

 

 

 

 

The Dulcimer is a student-run, student-edited literary and art magazine that publishes poems, plays, fiction, essays, and visual and three-dimensional art by CLA students and faculty and visiting artists. Recent issues of The Dulcimer have included stories and poems by Michael Meyehofer, Margaret Gibson (finalist for the National Book Award in poetry), and novelist Alvin Greenberg alongside the work of student writers and artists. The Dulcimer staff also sponsors film screenings, student and faculty readings, receptions with visiting writers, two annual art shows, and other arts events.

2008 Dulcimer: Often reading like a yearbook of the cultural and artistic life of the college, The Dulcimer, Mercer's student-run literary and arts magazine, publishes the best poetry, prose, and visual art by students, faculty, and visiting artists.