English Department News
- Schedule of Visiting Writers and Scholars, 2007-08
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Two faculty members, Bob Hicok (poetry) and Paul Sorrentino (American literature), are winners of Guggenheim Fellowship Awards of 2008. There were 190 chosen from more than 2600 applicants. Paul's was the only award in American literature. Congratulations!
- Emily Davis has won the 2008 ETD Master's Thesis Award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. The ETD Master's Thesis Award winner is selected based on the basis of clarity of style and presentation, scholarship, research methodology, contributions to the field or discipline, and the innovative use of technology in the presentation of the content of the thesis. Emily will receive her award February 24 in Austin, Texas, at the annual meeting of CSGS.
Emily's thesis, "John Cleland's The Dictionary of Love," is a digital edition of the dictionary coded in XML. The dictionary provides a resource for studying eighteenth-century English gender roles and courtship rituals and guidelines. Digitization enables publication on the Internet and thus makes the dictionary more accessible than it is in its microfilm versions, but it also enables researchers to find connections among dictionary entries and patterns in various definitions. The thesis also includes an analysis of language in Richardson's Pamela.
- Kelly Pender has published "Negation and the Contradictory Technics of Rhetoric" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, January 2008.
- Outsourcing Technical Communication: Issues, Policies and Practices, edited by Barry Thatcher and Carlos Evia, has been published by Baywood Publishing Company (2008). Professor Evia also wrote the introduction, "The Changing Face of Technical Communication in the Global Outsourcing Economy," and a chapter, "Defining Technical Communication in the United States and India: A Contrastive Analysis of Established Curricula and Desired Abilities."
- The New River, a journal of digital writing and art, has been selected by the Electronic Literature Organization for inclusion in the Library of Congress's Internet Archive Project. The Library of Congress will now provide a link to the New River and periodically "crawl" the site to stay updated. The purpose of the project is to archive significant sites for future generations. The New River was created and is edited by Professor Ed Falco.
- Kelly Belanger has been awarded a Summer Scholars Award from the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment to support proposal development related to a documentary film and book that examine the discourse around Title IX.
- Ed Falco has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts 2008 Literature Fellowship in Prose.
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Steven Salaita’s book, Anti-American Racism in the USA, has won a 2007 Myers Outstanding Book Award, awarded by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
- Katy Powell's book, The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, has been published by the University of Virginia Press.
- Katie Fallon's essay, "Lost," published in The Fourth River, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Christy Diulus, editor of the magazine.
- Nikki Giovanni wins 2007 Carl Sandburg Literary Award.
- Freshman-Transfer Picnic Photos
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