Luther English majors and minors have lots of fun.  Check out these photos of some of our gatherings and events, including our annual fall picnic and Halloween and Christmas parties, as well as dramatic performances--click on the first photo and follow the arrows through the whole slideshow. 

The photo above is of Sam Oines--a 2011 graduate who has returned to campus to complete his student teaching--at the Halloween party 2011, which was held instead on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day.  A former participant in Luther's yearlong study program in Nottingham, England, Sam is reading a traditional British poem about Guy Fawkes, one of the instigators of the Gunpowder Plot, which was a 1605 plot to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to England's throne.  In England each year on November 5, Guy Fawkes is commemorated in many communities with a huge bonfire and fireworks. 

Each of the Luther English Department's annual Halloween parties is held in a faculty member's home, and attendees are asked to come in costume.  The 2010 theme was Literary Villains; 2011's theme was Literary Rebels. 

Early each fall, the department holds a picnic in a local park which is walking distance from the campus.  Over burgers and chips, faculty and current students socialize with each other and with new first-year students interested in taking English classes.  The department also hosts a Christmas party on campus each year, held early in exam week as a test relief get-together.  Faculty members provide homemade treats, and the group chats, eats, sings carols, and dances around the Christmas tree.