English Department News
- J.D. Stahl has received posthumously The Anne Devereaux Jordan Award for "outstanding achievement" from the Children's Literature Association.
Citation photo - Jim Dubinsky has been named Executive Director of the Association for Business Communication.
- Ed Falco is featured in the June 11 Roanoke Times for his forthcoming prequel to "The Godfather."
- Kelly Pender has published Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism: Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teachable Art, (Parlor Press 2011).
- Sheila Carter-Tod was recently appointed to serve as Chair of the Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Her three-year term will begin now and end after the 2014 Annual Convention.
- The English Studies ePortfolio Group wins the 2011 XCaliber Award for excellence in creating and applying technologies on a large-scale team project.
- Jessica Broaddus, MFA candidate, has been named Outstanding Master's Student by the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences.
- Syracuse University Press has published Steven Salaita’s new book, Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide.
- Temple University Press has published Steven Salaita’s book, Israel’s Dead Soul.
- Heidi Lawrence, PhD candidate, is featured at the VT website for her poster presentation on the discourse of the vaccine refusal movement at the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Research Forum and Reception, Library of Virginia in Richmond.
- Cheryl Ruggiero has published a chapbook of poetry, Old Woman at the Warm Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2011).
- Ed Falco has published a new collection of short stories, Burning Man (Southern Methodist UP 2011).
- Paul Sorrentino has published Stephen Crane: A Documentary Volume. (Gale, 2010. 350 pp).
- Nikki Giovanni has won an NAACP Image Award, her 7th, for the edited collection, 100 Best African-American Poems
- “Research Centers as Agents of Change" was published in College Composition and Communication December 2010 by Rhetoric and Writing doctoral students Brian Gogan, Ashley Patriarca, Megan Fisher, and Associate Professor of English Kelly Belanger
- Emily Reed-Love's and Jess Cohen's research papers have been selected for the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference.
- Weston Cutter (MFA 2009) has published a collection of short stories, You’d Be a Stranger, Too (BlazeVox Books, 2010).
- The MFA in Creative Writing has been recognized by Poets & Writers Magazine.
- The Fall 2010 issue of The New River, a journal of digital writing & art, is now available.
- Tom Gardner has been named Alumni Distinguished Professor.
