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Keely Byars-Nichols win course development grants
Keely Byars-Nichols won two grants to develop new course: one from the Office of Diversity and Opportunity to develop a course to fulfill the US Diversity Requirement. Keely also won a Summer Innovative Course grant. Congratulations Keely!
Meredith Fosque and John Morillo win University Awards
Dr. Meredith Fosque and Dr. John Morillo were recognized by the Provost, Deans, and assembled dignitaries at the Undergraduate Academic Advising Awards Ceremony on February 3, 2012. Dr. Fosque, who is the Coordinator of Advising in the English Department, was awarded the Advising Administrator Award and Dr. Morillo was recognized as the outstanding Faculty Advisor. Congratulations to these hard working colleagues and academic advisors!!
2012 Statewide Poetry Contest Underway
Dick Reavis to give lectures
On Feb. 14-17, Dick Reavis will give three lectures on journalism — two for students, one for the public — at Louisiana Tech, sponsored by its Communications Department. Reavis will discuss his books on Waco and day labor, which have been assigned to students in classes at the university.
Marsha and Devin Orgeron publish paper
Marsha and Devin Orgeron's paper “An Introduction to an Interview with Jan Švankmajer that Turned into an Essay by Jan Švankmajer” appears in The Moving Image 11.2 (Fall 2011), pages 100-102, followed by the Švankmajer essay.
Dorianne Laux to read, lead workshops
Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar will give a reading and conduct workshops at the Peddie Academy, February 8-9, in Highstown, NJ:
Bob Kochersberger publishes essay
Bob Kochersberger’s essay "No nudes isn't always good news" appeared in the News & Observer on January 14.
Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi nominated for Pushcart Prize
Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for "Woman of the Lake," a short story about the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster that wiped out entire communities in Cameroon and made news around the world.
Elaine Orr publishes memoirs, edits book
Elaine Orr recently published two new memoirs. “Wife’s Fantasy at Mid-Life” appears in Prime Number 13.3 (http://www.primenumbermagazine.com/Issue13_PrimeDecimals3.html),
and “Driving the Peugeot” appears in Blackbird (http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n2/nonfiction/orr_e/index.shtml).
She is also a contributing editor of a new volume of memoirs and interdisciplinary essays: Writing Out of Limbo: The International Childhood Experience of Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). Her essay “The Stranger Self: A Pattern in Narrative” is included in the collection. This is the first volume of scholarly essays to address the topic of growing up outside one’s parents’ passport country and intimately tied to “foreign” soil.
John Charles delivers paper
John Charles delivered a paper on Richard Wright's Savage Holiday, taken from his forthcoming book, Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel (Rutgers UP), at the MLA convention in Seattle.
Jason Miller publishes book, has presentations and publications forthcoming
Jason Miller’s book Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture is now available in paperback from the University Press of Florida.
In celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month last October, Miller made a presentation on Hughes at NC State’s D.H. Hill library. He also gave presentations on Hughes’s poetry at the SAMLA convention in Atlanta and the MLA convention in Seattle.
His upcoming book readings in March include The University of Idaho, Washington State University, Auntie’s Bookstore (Spokane, WA), and NC State’s McKimmon Center on April 16th (as part of the ENCORE series).
Miller has poetry forthcoming in 2013 in Eclipse (Glendale, CA). His poem “Last November” was awarded runner-up in the Erskine J Poetry Prize and will be published in Smartish Pace (Baltimore, MD) this April.
In conjunction with EBSCO publishing, Miller will publish an article on Hughes later this year in the Salem Press Critical Insights Series edition of Langston Hughes.
Anne Auten gives presentation
Anne Auten presented "Jane Erred: A Modern [Mis]representation of Jane Eyre" on January 9 at the Hawaii University International Conference on Arts & Humanities.
Revenge of the Electric Car
Chris Tonelli receives grant
Tonellii and his co-editors at BIRDS, LLC (birdsllc.com) received a $10,000 FACE OUT grant from the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), sponsored by The Jerome Foundation.
Maria Pramaggiore publishes essay
Maria Pramaggiore recently published an invited essay — "Kids, Rock, and Couples: the Elusive/Illusive Screen Bisexual" — in the special 10-year anniversary issue of the Journal of Bisexuality (11.4).
Chris Anson publishes essay, gives talks
Chris Anson published "World Wide Composition: Virtual Uncertainties" in Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, edited by Darin Payne and Daphne Desser and published by Lexington Books (Feb. 2012).
He also gave invited talks at Bucknell University and Rhode Island College, and was keynote speaker at the 12th Annual English Graduate Student Conference, UNC-Charlotte.
Chris Tonelli featured on web site
Chris Tonelli is one of the many poets featured in the newly launched Knox Writers' House Recording Project:
Marsha Orgeron publishes paper
Marsha Orgeron’s “GI’s Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of WWII Concentration Camps” appears in Film and Genocide, edited by Tomas Crowder and Kristi Wilson (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).
Devin and Marsha Orgeron co-edit book
Devin and Marsha Orgeron, along with co-editor Dan Streible, have published Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2012). In addition to co-authoring the Introduction and the book's 52-page first chapter, "A History of Learning with the Lights Off," they each have their own chapters in the volume: Devin wrote "Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films,” and Marsha contributed "'A Decent and Orderly Society': Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970.” The full Table of Contents is available at:
Gene Melton presents at MLA
On January 8, Gene Melton presented "The (Neo-)Slave Narrative in Black and White: Toni Morrison's Reenvisioning of Masculinity in A Mercy" at the 2012 MLA Convention in Seattle.
Susan Katz co-edits journal, named to nonprofit board
Susan Katz co-edited the current (January–March 2012) issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, a special issue focusing on assessing multimodal compositions. Her co-editor was Lee Odell of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Katz has been invited to serve on the Board of Directors for La Verdadera Esperanza, a nonprofit foundation created to provide educational grants and work opportunities to immigrants attending or wishing to attend Houston area colleges and universities.
Hill Taylor publishes article
Hill Taylor’s article "Mapping Everyday Articulations: Gender, Blackness, and the Significance of Space in Washington, D.C." is included in Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, which was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739167960
Maria Rouphail to publish poems
Two of Maria Rouphail’s poems —"Interstate 70" and "Remembering January 1954" — will soon appear in Main Street Rag.
John Kessel publishes ebooks
John Kessel has recently published two ebooks: Corrupting Dr. Nice, an ebook version of his 1997 novel; and Ninety Percent of Everything, a collection of two novellas written with Jonathan Lethem and James Patrick Kelly. Both books are available on Amazon, and the second is also available for the Nook at Barnes & Noble.
Sarah Egan Warren has proposal accepted, gives presentation
Sarah Egan Warren and Anita Vila-Parrish’s Interdisciplinary Liaison Program proposal was accepted and funded for Spring 2012. Warren teaches ENG 331—Communication for Engineering and Technology, and Vila-Parrish teaches the Industrial Engineering Senior Design Project. As part of the Interdisciplinary Liaison Program, they will teach and spend time in each other’s classes in the spring to help make connections between CHASS and COE courses. Their goal is to develop course enhancements that allow for further developing communication skills and to enhance the relevancy of technical communication development and delivery for engineers working in a global environment.
Sarah Egan Warren presented at the NC State University Study Abroad Symposium (11/17) with two of her former study abroad students. The presentation covered the highlights of the new study abroad course, LONDON:ENG 331, that Sarah developed. LONDON: ENG 331 will not be offered in summer 2012, but plans are underway for summer 2013.
Orgerons receive seed grant
Marsha and Devin Orgeron were co-awarded a CIP Internationalization Seed Grant for developing a relationship between the NCSU film studies program and the University of Surrey film studies program (spring 2012, $5000). They will travel to London in early March to give lectures and to meet with University of Surrey faculty and deans, as well as to explore area film opportunities for faculty and students.
Dorianne Laux has poems forthcoming
New poems by Dorianne Laux will appear in Explosion-Proof Magazine, Solo Novo, The Normal School, Plume, Descant and Poetry International.
Additionally, “Peter Coyote” and “Song” will appear in River Styx, and “How long did I stand in the house of this body And stare at the road?” and “Letters in a Box” in the Baltimore Review.
Bob Kochersberger publishes essay
Bob Kochersberger’s essay "Easy guns, hard deaths" appeared in the News & Observer on December 21.
Chris Anson publishes articles, gives address
Chris Anson has published the following articles:
(with CRDM doctoral student Karla Lyles) "The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, Part Two: 1986-2006. The WAC Journal 22 (2011): 7-19.
"How I Have Changed My Mind." College English 74.2 (2011): 106-108.
"Fraudulent Practices: Academic Misrepresentations of Plagiarism in the Name of Good Pedagogy." Composition Studies 39.2 (2011): 29-43.
On October 29, Anson gave a keynote address, "Academic and Vernacular Literacies: What's Teaching What?" at the Symposium on Academic Writing in the 21st Century, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also invited to serve on the advisory board of the writing program at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which he visited last December.
Kellner on "Historical Distance"
Hans Kellner has published "Beyond the Horizon:
Chronoschisms and Historical Distance" in History
and Theory, Theme Issue 50 "Historical Distance:
Reflections on a Metaphor." (2011)
CHASS Integral to North Carolina"s Year of Communicating Science 2012
Mark your calendars for some exciting opportunities to participate in North Carolina's Year of Communicating Science: 2012. The entire state of North Carolina -- and the Research Triangle, in particular -- will be center stage for ... Read More
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Learning With the Lights Off
Devin and Marsha Orgeron, associate professors of film studies at NC State University, along with Dan Streible of New York University, have edited the first collection of essays to address the phenomenon of film's educational uses in 20th century America. ... Read More
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Enjoy a Little Sci-Fi with John Kessel
In a throwback to the serialized storytelling of the golden age of sci-fi, readers of NC State's research blog, The Abstract, are enjoying a serialized version of “Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance” (2009) by John Kessel ... Read More
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Why Educational Films Matter: Educational Films In The United States (Part II)
Enjoy this guest post by Marsha Orgeron, associate professor of film studies at NC State and co-editor of "Learning With The Lights Off: Educational Film In The United States." This is the second of three posts in a series on educational films.
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Alum Serves As One of Wake County"s Newest Assistant DAs
As a new assistant district attorney in North Carolina's capital, Win Bassett '07 intends to serve the citizens of Wake County by administering justice fairly on their behalf. The Virginia native ... Read More
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The Way We Learned: Educational Films In The United States (Part I)
Enjoy this guest post by Devin Orgeron, an associate professor of film studies at NC State and co-editor of "Learning With The Lights Off: Educational Film In The United States." This is the first of three posts in a series on educational films.
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Tim Stinson receives grant
Tim Stinson has been awarded a Research & Innovation Seed Funding grant by NC State. Tim is the principal investigator of "Genetic Analysis of Medieval Parchment Manuscripts" and will collaborate with co-investigators Melissa Ashwell (NCARS), Joe Cassady (NCARS), Daniel Ksepka (PAMS), Kristin Lamm (CALS) and C. Michael Stinson (external consultant). Their project aims to develop protocols and analytical tools required for the extraction, analysis and interpretation of DNA preserved in medieval parchment manuscripts.
Maria Rouphail publishes poem
Maria Rouphail’s poem "59 Degrees North Latitude" will appear in the next issue of The International Poetry Review.
Nancy Penrose presents paper
Nancy Penrose presented "Contingent Jobs, Contingent Selves? Exploring Professional Identity in Composition Teaching" at the National Council of Teachers of English annual meeting on November 18. The panel, on Professional Identity in Today’s Higher Education Landscape, was chaired by Roy Stamper and also featured papers by former NCSU lecturers Jennifer Grouling Cover (Assistant Professor, Ball State) and Cathy Leaker (Associate Dean, Empire State College).
Devin and Marsha Orgeron present at conference
Devin and Marsha Orgeron co-presented “Fatally Flawed Film Format: At Home with Kodacolor” at the Association for Moving Image Archivists conference (November) in Austin, TX. The conference included a screening in this rare format. They also conducted an hour-long workshop about publishing in the journal that they co-edit for the Association.
Susan Miller-Cochran leads workshop
Susan Miller-Cochran facilitated a workshop on "Responding to Student Writing" for faculty developing writing-intensive courses at UNC-Pembroke on November 11.
Carolyn Miller is guest faculty, panel respondent
Carolyn Miller was a guest faculty member for a one-week interdisciplinary Ph.D. course on Reading Texts, Kultrans Project, University of Oslo, in November (https://www.uio.no/forskning/tverrfak/kultrans//aktuelt/arrangementer/2011/reading.html).
She was also a panel respondent for two panels at the National Communication Association in New Orleans this month: “Emergent Voices about Nuclear Power Following the Crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant” and “The Public Work of Rhetoric.”
Gene Melton participates in panel discussion
Gene Melton participated in the "Academics Assemble! Comics and the Academy Roundtable" at the 2011 NC ComicCon in Morrisville on November 5. The panel discussion focused on comics and graphic novels as literature.
Leila May presents paper
Leila May presented a paper titled "Sherlock Holmes, the 'Science of Deduction', and the End of Victoria's Secrets" at the Pacific Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Scripps College, Claremont, CA, on November 6.
Dorianne Laux's book is finalist for award
The Book of Men by Dorianne Laux is one of 10 finalists for the Goodreads Choice Award in Poetry. If you're a Goodreads member you can click here to vote: http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011#56965-Best-Poetry
Sharon Joffe publishes book review
Sharon Joffe published a review of Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family by Stephen Hebron and Elizabeth Denlinger. The review appeared in the Keats-Shelley Journal, Volume LX.
Bob Kochersberger publishes essay
Bob Kochersberger’s latest essay, "Dodging the train wreck," appeared in the News & Observer on Nov. 12.
John Charles edits Obsidian III
John Charles guest edited a special issue of Obsidian III on Richard Wright, which appeared this month. The issue features work by renowned scholars such as Houston Baker, Barbara Foley, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, and others.
Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance (Part I)
Editor's Note: Readers of NC State's "The Abstract" are generally interested in research, science and technology. People who fall into that camp are often also devotees of science fiction. So, in a throwback to the serialized storytelling of the golden age of sci-fi, we decided to serialize some science fiction by one of our favorite authors – John Kessel.
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Shannon Gillespie wins UG Research Grant
Shannon Gillespie, a senior English Honors student, won an Undergraduate Research Grant to pursue research with faculty mentors Laura Linker and Carmine Prioli in Spring 2012.
John Kessel edits anthology
The anthology Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka, edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, has just been published by Tachyon Publications. The anthology contains stories by writers as varied as J.G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Jonathan Lethem, and Philip Roth, a comic by underground artist R. Crumb, and John's translation of Kafka's story "A Hunger Artist."
On Wednesday, December 7, at 7:30 pm, at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, in connection with the release of the book, John and Dr. Ruth Gross of the NCSU Department of Foreign Languages and Literature will lead a discussion of Kafka's life and works.
Laura Linker receives research award
Laura Linker has been awarded a $4,000 Pilot/Proof of Concept Scholarship and Research Award (SRA) from the CHASS research office in support of "Digital Dryden," a digital archive and multimedia site with annotations and links to a seventeenth-century digital map of London.
Maria Pramaggiore nominated for award
Maria Pramaggiore is the CHASS nominee for the Board of Governors' Teaching Award for 2011-12.
Carolyn Miller presents paper
Carolyn Miller participated in the third invitational conference on rhetorical theory sponsored by the Department of English and the Division of Speech Communication at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, October 13-15. She presented a position paper on "Reflections on Emergence in Genre Theory."
Rebecca Walsh publishes essay, presents paper
Rebecca Walsh's essay "Teaching Race in H.D.'s Work" appears in Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (MLA, 2011).
She also presented a paper entitled "Bryher in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Gandhara" at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Buffalo, October 6-9.
Jon Thompson publishes poem
Jon Thompson’s poem “Letter to Jim Jarmusch” appears in White Review, Issue 3
(http://www.thewhitereview.org/current-issue/).
Tim Stinson receives grant
Tim Stinson is co-investigator on "The Ecosystem of the Archive," a grant of $15,750 awarded by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The grant entails conducting site visits to institutions funded by CLIR's Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program to study how scholars, curators, and librarians interact in processing and using special collections materials.
Sheila Smith McKoy to give reading
Sheila Smith McKoy will give a reading as part of “An Evening with the Best of North Carolina’s Black Poets,” sponsored by the North Carolina A&T State University Creative Writing Program Presents as a part of the Carolina on My Mind Reading Series on November 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the General Classroom Building Auditorium A218 (second floor). The event celebrates the special edition of the Obsidian Journal issue, Aforebo: A Harvest of North Carolina Writers of African Descent.
She will also participate in a panel presentation entitled "Do I Look Illegal?" on November 14, at the African American Cultural Center, 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Thomas Phillips publishes novel
Thomas Phillips’ novel Insouciance was recently published by Spuyten Duyvil (http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/index.htm).
Dorianne Laux wins poetry award
Dorianne Laux has won the The Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society for The Book of Men (http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/affiliates/lit-hist/awards/awards.htm).
John Charles presents paper
John Charles presented a paper entitled "Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White Life Novel" at the American Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, Md., on October 20.
Stan Dicks presents at conference
Stan Dicks presented “Three Effective Methods for Improving Collaboration with Business and Governmental Organizations” at the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communications Conference in Harrisonburg, VA, on Oct. 7. He also served on the program committee for the conference.
Morillo and Fosque win advising awards
Two English department faculty have won CHASS advising awards: Dr. John Morillo has won the Faculty Advising Award and Dr. Meredith Fosque has won the Advising Administrator Award for the college. They will both compete for university level awards. Congratulations, John and Meredith!
CHASS Celebrates National Day on Writing
Step into new ways of writing on October 20. New technologies have expanded the possibilities for writing in multiple media, including digital media. Through the National Day on Writing, created by the National Council of Teachers of English, participants can explore ... Read More
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Susan Katz gives presentation
Susan Katz gave a presentation entitled "Creating Bridges with Internships" at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication at James Madison University on October 7.
Kellner is a "super"
Hans Kellner is a supernumerary in the North Carolina Opera's
CARMEN this Friday and Sunday. He will play a soldier, an inn
keeper, a smuggler, and a picador.
Two CHASS Faculty Summoned for White House Summit
English Professors Chris Anson and Susan Miller-Cochran were invited guests at the White House last week for a summit focused around their areas of expertise. ... Read More
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United States Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin Visits NC State
Join us at 7:30 on October 17, when the United States Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin will be our very special guest. Merwin is one of the most widely-read poets in America. During his 50-year career, his work has been recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes, ... Read More
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Maria Pramaggiore presents Horror Film at NCSU Women's Center
Maria Pramaggiore will present TEETH (2007), a horror film with a feminist sensibility, as part of the NCSU Women's Center's fall film series. Join us on Tuesday, October 18 from 6-8 pm in the Green Room of the Talley Student Center. Popcorn will be provided!
Carolyn Miller gives presentations, lectures
During a trip to Brazil in August, Carolyn Miller gave lectures at three universities: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Universidade Estadual de Ceará and Universidade Federal de Ceará, combined Seminar on Agency, Genre, Social Activity, and Social Systems, Fortaleza, Brazil; and Second Symposium in Linguistics and LIterature, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, August 2011.
She has also given a number of presentations in recent months:
In June, she presented “New Genres, Now and Then” as the keynote speaker for Literature, Rhetoric, and Values: 50th Anniversary Conference, Department of English, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Also in June, she co-directed (with Victoria Gallagher) the Workshop on Emerging Genres, Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder.
In July, she gave the featured presentation — “Exploring Genres in Cultural Contact Zones” — at the 22nd Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: Rhetoric and Writing across Language Boundaries at Penn State University.
In August, she presented “GXB: Work in Progress on an International, Interdisciplinary Wite for Genre Researchers” with Dylan Dryer and Chris Minnix at the VI SIGET (6th International Symposium on Genre Studies) in Natal, Brazil.
Carolyn Miller in online interview
Carolyn Miller’s joint interview with Charles Bazerman appears in “Rhetorical Genres” in Série Bate-papo Acadêmico (Academic Conversation Series, vol. 1), Recife, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, August 2011. It is published in three languages (Portuguese, Spanish, and English) and three formats (video, Macromedia Flashpaper, and PDF): http://www.nigufpe.com.br/serie-bate-papo-academico-vol-1-generos-textuais/.
Maria Rouphail publishes poems
Maria Rouphail published two poems, "Cloud Study" and "Lamp Shop in Winter," in The Best of the Raleigh Reading Series: A Main Street Rag Reading Series Anthology (The Main Street Rag, Fall 2011).
Jon Thompson publishes Korean poet's work
Jon Thompson edited and published in Free Verse Editions one of Korea’s rising literary stars, Jeongrye Cho. Instances—translated by Brenda Hillman, Wayne de Fremery and Jeongrye Choi herself—is published in a bi-lingual edition: http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/instances. Thompson was the co-author of a $5,000 grant received from the Korea Literature Translation Institute in support the publication of Instances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Literature_Translation_Institute.
Sheila Smith-McCoy to present
Sheila Smith McKoy will take part in a panel discussion entitled "The MisEducation of Columbus" on October 12 in the African American Cultural Center at 7 p.m.
Gene Melton presents in Greensboro
Gene Melton presented "'to love myself fiercely': Black Gay Masculinity in Essex Hemphill's Earth Life" at the Writing into the Profession Graduate Student Conference at UNC-Greensboro on September 24.
Dorianne Laux to give readings
Dorianne Laux will give a reading, workshop and interview for Seattle Arts and Lectures on October 4th and 5th (http://www.lectures.org/). On October 27-28, she will join Cornelius Eady for the Syracuse Symposium: “Identity,” giving a reading and lecture at Syracuse University (http://insidesu.syr.edu/2011/08/24/2011-syracuse-symposium-examines-many-facets-of-identity/).
Bob Kochersberger publishes essays
Bob Kochersberger has published two op-ed pieces in the News & Observer recently: "Awash in weather worries" on Sept. 15 and "Flying on the wild side" on Sept. 24.
Dick Reavis publishes article
Dick Reavis’s article "Ft. Worth Red Scare" appears in the September issue of The Texas Observer, the liberal magazine of Texas and beneficiary of the estate of the late columnist Molly Ivins. The story — a spin-off of Reavis’s recent research on Southern Worker, a Depression-era weekly published by the Communist Party — is about a series of incidents that culminated in the 1933 Labor Day murder of a Texas agitator for the unemployed.
John Kessel"s talk in Colombia on video
In March, John Kessel gave a talk about the social implications of science fiction, in the Orchideorama of the botanical gardens in Medellin, Colombia. Kessel says the following about the experience: “[A]s I began to talk, the skies opened up with a torrential downpour, and it came back at the end as commentary by the universe. Though I spoke in English, audience members had wireless receivers over which they could hear a simultaneous translation in Spanish." Hernan Ortiz and Viviana Trujillo of Fractal '11 have posted a video of the talk: http://vimeo.com/28693398.
Chris Anson publishes article, leads workshop
Chris Anson published an article, "My Dinner With Calais," in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, volume 11.3 (2011). The article takes the form of an imaginary dialogue between a history professor passionate about teaching and a skeptical professor of oceanography. The historian tries to persuade the oceanographer to use imagined dialogues (between two authors, say) as writing assignments in undergraduate courses.
On Sept. 9, he ran a workshop for faculty across the disciplines at UNC-Pembroke on designing writing-intensive courses. In his role as a member of the national advisory board for Miami University's Howe Center for Writing Excellence, he also recently participated in a four-year review of that program.
Tell a Story, Win a Prize
Got a story to tell? Enter it in the creative writing program's statewide short story contest. Monday, Oct. 17, is the postmark deadline to enter your work of fiction. Competition is open to North Carolina residents who have never published a book ... Read More
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Tenure-Track Opening in Rhetoric and Technical Communication
The Department of English is searching for a new faculty member to join its programs in technical communication, professional writing, and digital media. The position is listed at the rank of Assistant Professor but exceptional candidates will be considered for appointment at a higher rank. Applicants with research and teaching interests in international and global issues in technical communication will receive primary consideration; those with strengths in multimedia design and production, digital media theory, project management, computer-supported cooperative work, and rhetoric of science and technology may also be considered. Applicants should use the NC State University employment web portal; a full position announcement is given there, along with instructions for applying. Members of the search committee are Stan Dicks (director of the MS in Technical Communication), Susan Katz (director of the internship program), Jason Swarts (director of the doctoral program), Jeff Reaser (teacher education), Kate Maddalena (graduate student), and Carolyn Miller (search committee chair).
Emily Hoswon, Matthew Osborn, Caroline Swicegood, and Tara Taylor are thanked by students
Four English faculty members--Emily Howson, Matthew Osborn, Caroline Swicegood, and Tara Taylor--earned recognition from the Office of Faculty Development because their students participated in the "Thank a Teacher" program. Their students provided comments to the OFD thanking these instructors for their efforts and positive impact as a teacher.
Creating a literary culture
How do you enhance the literary culture of North Carolina? A culture that encourages aspiring writers from all over the state to contribute their imaginative best? The short answer: contests. Since the beginning of NC State's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program seven years ago, the program’s fiction and poetry contests have been discovering good writing across the state. ... Read More
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Jennifer Nolan-Stinson publishes and presents
Jennifer Nolan-Stinson's article "Towards a Life History of Reading" appeared in Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the journal of the Reception Study Society.
She also organized a panel and gave a presentation entitled "The Paperback Revolution and the American Literature Classroom" at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual meeting, July 14-17 in Washington, DC.
Sheila Smith McKoy publishes articles
Sheila Smith McKoy’s article "The Future Perfect: Reframing Ancient Spirituality in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters" appears in the Journal of Ethnic American Literature (volume 1.1, pages 111-126).
She has also published “Placing and Replacing ‘The Venus Hottentot’: An Archeology of Pornography, Race and Power” in Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman, edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere (New York: Palgrave, 2011).
Tim Stinson presents in Germany
Tim Stinson was an invited speaker at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography, July 20-22 at the Universität Würzburg. He gave a presentation entitled "DNA Analysis and the Study of Medieval Parchment Books."
Beryl Pittman presents in Barcelona
Beryl Pittman presented "Enriching the Online Learning Experience through Projects, Support, Technology, and Community-Building" at the International Conference on Education and New Learning Technology in Barcelona, Spain, on July 5.
Maria Rouphail publishes two reviews
Maria Rouphail has published two reviews recently. Her review of Helen Losse’s book of poetry Seriously Dangerous appears in the September issue of Rattle. Her review of Waking by Ron Rash can be found on the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival Blog (http://cmlitfest.blogspot.com/) as the August 25 entry.
Elaine Orr at writer's colony
Elaine Orr was in residence at the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow (in Eureka Springs, Arkansas) for five weeks in June and July. On July 16, she read from her fiction at PoetLuck, the monthly Eureka Springs Reading Series sponsored by the Colony.
Denise Heinze's short story honored
Denise Heinze won Honorable Mention in the TheWritersWeekly.com Summer 2011 24-Hour Short Story Contest for her story "The Mission."
Five English Faculty participate in NCSU Common Reading Project
Five faculty members from the English Department--Keely Byars-Nichols, Tom Lisk, Maria Pramaggiore, Catherine Mainland, and Deborah Hooker--led discussions with incoming first year students on the NCSU Common Reading, Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
This critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction recounts the story of a poor African American woman whose cancer cells (taken without her knowledge or consent, as was, and remains, standard medical practice ) became the first "immortal" cell line, contributing to breakthroughs in treating infectious diseases, polio and cancer.
Jon Thompson publishes in various venues
Jon Thompson wrote the introduction to a new edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011).
He also edited Mark Terrill’s new translation of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975, available through Free Verse Editions: http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/unchangingblue
His poems “The Unregenerate Who Once Wanted to be Redeemed” and “To Feel the Wholeness of the World” appeared in Witness, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (Summer 2011): http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/poetry/
Marsha Orgeron presents at two conferences
Marsha Orgeron gave two talks this summer. The first (in July) was a 45-minute co-presentation with Devin Orgeron titled “Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal,” at the Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium in Bucksport, Maine. In August, she presented “Melodrama Interrupted: WWII Stock Footage in Sam Fuller’s Verboten!” at Visible Evidence, which took place at NYU in August.
The latest (spring 2011) issue The Moving Image, the Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, which Marsha and Devin Orgeron co-edit, is out, featuring contributions from Eric Smoodin, Sarah Street, Louis Pelletier, Wendy Shay, Bill Murphy, Jan-Christopher Horak, Sam Kula, Ray Edmondson, Robert Dirig, Karen Cariani, Katie Trainor, Robbins Barstow, and Giovanna Fossati.
Devin Orgeron presents at two conferences
Devin Orgeron spoke at two conferences over the summer. In July, he and Marsha Orgeron discussed “Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal,” at the Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium in Bucksport, Maine. This 45-minute presentation included an on-stage screening of this rare amateur format using original equipment. In August, he presented “Truth, Advertising and the American Auteur” at the annual Visible Evidence conference, which took place at NYU.
On the tail of the publication of the latest (spring 2011) issue of The Moving Image, the Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Orgerons are at work on a special issue on experimental and avant-garde cinema and the archive.
Dorianne Laux's publications and upcoming readings
Dorianne Laux will read with her husband, Joseph Millar, at the Decatur Book Festival, September 3-4.
She will also be interviewed at the Bernardsville Public Library in New Jersey on September 10 followed by a reading in New York City in memory of 9/11.
On September 21, she will share a reading with her former student and author of Clamor, Elyse Fenton, at the NCSU Craft Center.
Her recent poems can be found in the summer issue of Tinhouse Magazine.
Meet Linda Watson, the "Cook for Good Lady"
Linda Watson (English '79) has had an extraordinary career that spans the corporate, political, dot com, and environmental worlds. She is currently putting her communication and writing skills to use as the 'Cook For Good Lady' for the company she founded. ... Read More
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Meet Dan Neil, Pulitzer prize winning automotive critic
Dan Neil (MA, English '86) says he was a "singularly unpromising candidate" when he arrived at NC State for a master's degree in English. He gives a lot of credit to English Prof. Mike Grimwood ... Read More
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English Prof Named American Council on Education Fellow
English professor Laura Severin has been selected as one of 50 fellows at the American Council on Education for the 2011-12 academic year. ... Read More
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NYTimes References English Intern's Work
Summer internships can get students' work noticed in some high-powered places. Take senior English Major Sonny Ferares, who is interning with the Raleigh Public Record. An article she wrote about food trucks in Raleigh was referenced in a Sunday New ... Read More
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John Charles publishes essay
John Charles published his essay "A Queer Finale: Sympathy and Privacy in Richard Wright's A Father's Law" in Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (Signs of Race Series), edited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow. The book was published in June by Palgrave Macmillan.
Walt Wolfram to appear on History Channel
Walt Wolfram will appear in the "Mouthing Off" episode of the History Channel's How the States Got their Shapes at 10:00 pm, Tuesday, July 12.
Rebecca Walsh gives talk on Whitman
Rebecca Walsh gave a presentation titled "Whitman and Geography" at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston in May.
M.S. grad posting blog from Kazakhstan
Stan Dicks reports that recent M. S. grad Sandy Bjorkback Smith is posting a blog based on her fascinating experiences working for IBM in Kazakhstan on a human rights, non-profit agency in the health and social services realm. The blog is at http://sandybjork.blogspot.com.
Tim Stinson publishes article, participates in conferences
Tim Stinson's article "Makeres of the Mind: Authorial Intention, Editorial Practice, and The Siege of Jerusalem" appeared in The Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 24.
In early May he was co-organizer of a planning workshop for the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance held in Baltimore and a panelist for a session entitled "What Every (Digital) Medievalist Should Know" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.
Dorianne Laux's book reviewed in NY Times
The Book of Men was recently reviewed in The New York Times as one of five books of poems for summer reading. Shortly after its release in February, the book reached number 1 on amazon.com’s Bestseller list, beating out Tom Waits and Tupac Shakur.
Carolyn Miller is keynote speaker, workshop leader
Carolyn Miller presented on “New Genres, Now and Then” as the keynote speaker for the Literature, Rhetoric, and Values: 50th Anniversary Conference, Department of English, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 3-5.
She also presented "Emerging Genres" as a workshop leader with Victoria Gallagher (COM) at the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 24-26.
Susan Miller-Cochran gives presentations
Susan Miller-Cochran presented a workshop titled “Working with ESL Students in Your Colloquium or WI Course” with Gigi Taylor (UNC-CH) at UNC-Asheville on May 27 and participated in the Elon Research Seminar June 13-17.
Additionally, she will be present on "Aligning Placement and Assessment Efforts for First-Year Writing" at the Council of Writing Program Administrators' annual conference in Baton Rouge in July.
Robert Young publishes book
Robert Young's Justus Lipsius' Concerning Constancy, an edition/translation of Justus Lipius’ philosophical dialogue Concerning Constancy, has appeared from Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies. Young reports that the volume has a “lurid cover.” For more information and a peek at the cover, visit http://www.acmrs.org/publications/catalog/justus-lipsius%E2%80%99-concerning-constancy.
News from the Raleigh Review
The Raleigh Review Writers' House Bookshop Loft in Five Points is open. For information, go to http://www.raleighreview.org/Contact_Us.html.
The Raleigh Review Writers' House announces the fall fiction workshop “The Art of Description,” which will take place August 12–14 in the RRWH Loft. For more details, visit http://www.raleighreview.org/Writers_House.html.
Soldier turns Oxford Scholar
As a kid, Will Badger, MFA '11, wanted to be a writer so he could explore all the places in his head he was sure he'd never go. Ironically, he's doing both. ... Read More
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NC Museum Art to host readings from Obsidian Magazine
The NC Museum of Art in partnership with Carolina African American Writers Collective will host and event inclluding readings from Obsidian Magazine. "A Dialogue with North Carolina Writers of African Descent, Literary Reading and Discussion" will take place at 7 p.m. on June 30 in the museum's East Building. The event is free. Lenard Moore, Celeste Doaks and Evie Shockley will read their works. For more information, contact Deborah.Murphy@ncdcr.gov.
Tara Taylor, semi-finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
Tara Taylor's poem, "Something Else" was selected as a semi-finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. One of thirty from over six hundred entries her poem will be published in the fall issue of Nimrod International Journal.
CHASS Alum Josh Eure Wins "Best of the Net" Award
"I'm writing something," he says to me. "You write?" "Not yet. Anyway, tell me what you think. Ok, so there's this guy..."
Just an excerpt from Josh Eure's flash fiction story "It's Sci-Fi." The MFA 2011 grad's story was nominated for the prestigious Best of the Net award, and won placement in this year's anthology. Read More
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Poetry winners on library web site
Winners of the 2011 NC State Poetry Contest can be seen and heard at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/events/poetry/.
John Charles gives talks in Europe
John Charles has delivered three talks recently:
"Race and Affect in Mid-Twentieth Century African American Fiction: The Case of Richard Wright's A Father's Law," Literature and Emotions Conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2011.
“Frank Yerby and the Postwar African American White-Life Novel,” Cross-Cultural Exchange: Globalizing American Studies (Symposium), University of Naples, April 2011.
“Rethinking Race in the Mid-Twentieth Century: the Case of the African American White Life Novel,” Free University of Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, April 28, 2011.
William Badger awarded Fulbright grant
William Badger has won a 2011-12 Fulbright grant to Poland, where he will work alongside scholars at Warsaw University to translate Janusz Zajdel's novel Limes Inferior into English.
Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi presents paper
Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi gave an invited paper on "Of Mothers and Daughters: Writing African Women and Transnationalism" at the African Literature Association conference held at Ohio University, April 13-17.
Maria Rouphail poetry contest finalist
Maria Rouphail was recently named a finalist in the North Carolina Poetry Society's “Poet Laureate” division contest.
Susanna Branyon Klingenberg presents paper on O'Connor
Susanna Branyon Klingenberg presented her paper "'Who do you think you are?': Models of Vocation in O'Connor's Later Fiction" at a conference called "Startling Figures: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Flannery O'Connor" in Milledgeville, GA, on April 14.
NC State Poetry Contest: Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 North Carolina State University Poetry Contest. Some 500 poems were submitted this year. Listen to the poets reading their work. ... Read More
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Dorianne Laux's readings and poems
Dorianne Laux will share a reading with poet Tim McBride on May 1 at Quail Ridge Books: http://www.quailridgebooks.com/.
Her selected poems in Arabic are now available on the web:
http://www.adab.com/world/modules.php?name=Sh3er&doWhat=shqas&qid=81645&r&rc=0.
And she offers a close reading on The Poetry Channel of Ruth Stone's poem "Curtains," recorded at The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in England:
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/1/3/e/13e959647f300678/LAUX_CLOSE_READING01.mp3?sid=d0aae73a176fccef807160a0e7db69da&l_sid=22366&l_eid=&l_mid=2525466.
Jon Thompson publishes poems
Jon Thompson published "[The earth open to the sky]" and "[Dusk as a pink-and-vermillion-gashed sky] in Shearsman 87 & 88 (The 30th Anniversary Issue), Spring/Summer 2011.
Dr. Maria Pramaggiore: Fueling Passion for Film
Maria Pramaggiore (English) has combined her enthusiasm for cinema and education to help build an outstanding Film Studies program at NC State. ... Read More
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Leila May presents at INCS
Leila May presented a paper at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference (INCS) March 30-April 2 at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA.
Carolyn Miller has three recent presentations
Carolyn Miller presented “Genre Across Borders: A Scholar-Networking Site in Progress,” with Dylan Dryer, Chris Minnix, Matt Morain, and Ruffin Bailey, in a poster session at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference held in Atlanta.
She also presented “Risk, Trust, and Trustworthiness” at the Environments, Risks, and Digital Media: Communicating, Governing, and Managing Risks in a Mediated World Second Annual Symposium sponsored by the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program.
Additionally, she was the keynote speaker for New Media/New Ideas: Second Annual Graduate Symposium at the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, James Madison University. Her talk was titled “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Genre?”
Raleigh Review receives Best of the Net honors
Raleigh Review Literary & Arts Magazine had one winner in the Best of the Net Fiction category — Josh Eure's story "It's Sci-Fi" — as well as three Poetry Best of the Net finalists. Check it out at http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/.
CHASS Alum and War Photographer Chris Hondros Killed in Libya
Acclaimed war photographer Chris Hondros (English '93) has died after being injured Wednesday in Libya. Hondros, a senior correspondent for Getty Images, has covered conflicts in Irag, Afghanistan, Liberia, Kosovo and elsewhere. He was a finalist fo ... Read More
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2011 Faculty Awards: Q&A with Christopher Crosbie
The Alumni Association will honor 18 NC State professors on May 5 for their outstanding work in the classroom, in the laboratory and in the field. We talked (via email) with some of the recipients about their work and the keys to being a successful professor.
Today we're visiting with Christopher Crosbie, an [...]
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Tara Taylor a notable finalist for Inkwell poetry contest.
Tara Taylor's poem "Trompe l' eoil: A Portrait of My Kidnapper" was a notable finalist in Inkwell's 14th Annual Poetry Contest judged by Mark Doty. One of five from 700 entries, her poem will be published in the next issue.
Maria Rouphail receives poetry honor
Maria Rouphail read at the third annual Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival on Sunday, April 17 at the Page Walker Arts & History Center in Cary. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Poetry Competition.
Denise Heinze reads at Middle Tennessee State
Denise Heinze read her short story "Trick" at the Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference at Middle Tennessee State University in April, 2011. Heinze was one of only three women to present at the conference.
Susan Katz recives Engaged Faculty honor
Susan Katz was honored as a member of the Community of Engaged Faculty Fellows at an awards ceremony hosted by the NCSU Office of Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development on April 18th. The Community of Engaged Faculty Fellows was created in the fall of 2010 to honor "individuals who have given of their time, knowledge, and support to help others develop and sustain community-engaged teaching and learning activities."
Denise Heinze receives short fiction honor
Denise Heinze's short story "A Sibling's Rival" won honorable mention in the Winter, 2011 Writersweekly.com 24-Hour Short Story Contest.
Catherine Mainland publishes article on Chopin
Catherine Mainland’s article "Chopin's Bildungsroman: Male Role Models in The Awakening" is scheduled to appear in the Winter edition of Mississippi Quarterly.
English Lecturer Finds Self-Publishing a Success
English lecturer Elisa Lorello has proved that publishers and literary agents are no longer essential to climbing the bestseller lists. Self-publishing her first book "Faking It" through Raleigh-based LuLu.com, book sales reached ... Read More
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Stan Dicks Presents at ATTW Conference
Stan Dicks presented "The Effects of Social Networking for Technical Communication Practice and Pedagogy" at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference in Atlanta in April, 2011.
Sheila Smith-McKoy's recent and upcoming talks
Sheila Smith-McKoy gave a presentation on April 8th at the College Language Association in Spartanburg, SC.
Her upcoming activities include being the Graduation Speaker on May 14th for Interdisciplinary Studies and a giving a reading from the Obsidian Special Issue on NC Writers of African Descent on May 15th, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh.
Sheila Smith-McKoy publishes poetry and fiction
Sheila Smith McKoy published "Sweetness," "Pollination: Outskirts of Raleigh, NC 1968," "Assemblage," "Third Time?s the Charm" (poems) and one short story, "Sanctuary" in the guest-edited Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, 10.2 (Fall/Winter 2009)-11.1. (Spring/Summer 2010).
Raleigh Review Writer's House to offer poetry workshop
The Raleigh Review Writer's House announces a poetry workshop with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, May 27–29 (Memorial Day Weekend) at the North Carolina University Club in The State Room. Workshop seats are limited to 15. Information on how to register may be found at http://www.raleighreview.org/Writers_House.html.
Josh Eure in Best of the Net
"It's Sci-Fi," a flash fiction story by Josh Eure, NCSU MFA Fiction class of 2011, was published in and then nominated by the Raleigh Review Literary & Arts Magazine for Best of the Net and won placement in this year's anthology. Best of the Net selects just five stories each year from more 3,000 magazines.
Rebecca Walsh publishes essay in anthology
Rebecca Walsh's essay "Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Foreigner' and the Spanish-American War" has recently been published in A Concise Companion to American Studies, Ed. John Carlos Rowe (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).
John Wall presents at Renaissance conference
John N. Wall read a paper entitled "Marginally Modern Milton: Style and the Narrator in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained" at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Montreal, Canada, on March 25, 2011.
Makuchi (Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi) publishes short story
"Woman of the Lake," a short story by Makuchi, has been published in Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, 10.2 (Fall/Winter 2009)-11.1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 64-77. The special double issue features North Carolina Writers of African Descent and the Carolina African American Writers' Collective. Makuchi’s story honors the thousands who died in Cameroon in 1986 as a result of the Lake Nyos Disaster.
Jon Thonpson publishes poem
Jon Thompson published "[Nothing we love is what we love —]" in Blackbox Manifold 6, March 2011. You can read the poem at http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue6/JonThompson6.html.
Tim Stinson publishes essay in anthology
Tim Stinson's essay "Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production" has been published in Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, an anthology published by the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik.
Elaine Orr was visiting writer in Rhode Island
Elaine Orr was a visiting writer at the University of Rhode Island in March. She participated in a month-long symposium, Crossing Borders: Women Writing Their Lives, funded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and sponsored by several departments at the university. She was a guest lecturer, taught a group of high school students, and gave a university-wide reading on March 15. For more information, visit http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/events.html.
Gene Melton presents at Renaissance conference
On March 26, Gene Melton presented his paper "Edmund and Edgar as 'Black Men' in Shakespeare's King Lear" at the 2011 Renaissance Society of America Conference in Montreal, Canada.
Laura Linker's book makes catalog cover
An image from Laura Linker’s forthcoming book, Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670–1730, has made the cover of Ashgate's 2011 catalog. The image can be found at
Leila May presents at the Philological Association conference
Leila May presented a paper titled "Inner Outings: Concealment and Revelation in the Victorian Novel" at the Philological Association of the Carolinas, which was held March 17-19 in Asheville.
Deborah Hooker will have essay in anthology on Welsh folklore
Deborah Hooker's essay "Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton's The Virgin and the Swine: High Fantasy Meets the Female Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s" will appear in a volume forthcoming from McFarlands this spring: Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture: Essays on Adapations in Literature, Film, Television, and Digital Media, edited by Audrey Becker and Kristin Noone.
Erik Thomas publishes in American Speech
Erik Thomas published “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Durability of the Northern/Midland Dialect Boundary in Ohio” in American Speech (vol. 85, pages 375-430).
Sharon Settlage publishes composting article
Sharon Settlage continues to publish articles in Triangle Gardener. Her most recent piece, "Turn Food Waste into Compost," is about worm composting and appears in the March/April issue.
Film text comes out in third edition
The third edition of Film: A Critical Introduction, written by Maria Pramaggiore and Tom Wallis, was published by Laurence King Publishing (UK) and Pearson (US) on March 15.
Maria Pramaggiore has two recent talks
Maria Pramaggiore was a keynote speaker at the NCSU Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS) conference on February 26, 2011, presenting "Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Second Generation Celebrity and the Kardashian Family Brand."
She presented "Measuring the 1970s: Barry Lyndon and the Long Take" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in New Orleans, March 10-13.
Marsha Orgeron presents in New Orleans
Marsha Orgeron recently presented “Appropriating Motion Pictures: Edwin G. Boring, the Psychology of Testimony, and Thomas Edison’s Van Bibber’s Experiment (1911)” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in New Orleans. While there, she also participated in the workshop “Home Movie Research Methodologies.”
Elisa Lorello has publishing success
News about Elisa Lorello’s publishing success appeared in the Charlotte Observer on Sunday, March 20, and was picked up by the Sun Times in Florida as well as the News & Observer. You can read the story at http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/20/2156266/shes-part-of-a-publishing-revolution.html.
Dorianne Laux has upcoming readings
Dorianne Laux's upcoming readings include the third annual Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival (with John Balaban) on April 17 at the Page Walker Arts & History Center in Cary (http://www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org/index.php?id=3).
She will also read with NCSU MFA graduate Celeste Doaks at 7 p.m. on April 20 at ECU, where Celeste currently teaches courses in creative writing.
Dorianne Laux an amazon.com hit
Dorianne Laux's The Book of Men has held the number one position for poetry on amazon.com for the second week running.
Deborah Hooker publishes article on Hardy
Deborah Hooker's article "The Woman in the Race: Racing and Re-racing Hardy's ‘Pure Woman’ in Tess of the d'Urbervilles” appears in the Spring issue (7.1) of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
Tom Hester edits John Donne handbook
Tom Hester co-edited the recently published The Oxford Handbook of John Donne (Oxford University Press). Several of his articles also appear in the handbook.
Balaban and Laux to read in Cary
John Balaban and Dorianne Laux will read at the third annual Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival on April 17 at the Page Walker Arts & History Center in Cary.
For more information, go to http://www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org/index.php?id=3.
Bella Honess Ross to Lecture on Animation in Documentary Films
Please join the Film Studies Program in welcoming Dr. Bella Honess Roe, who will present "Animating Documentary: From Substitution to Evocation" on Monday, March 14 at 4.30 pm in Caldwell G107. Dr. Honess Roe is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Surrey, one of NCSU's Global Partners.
John Kessel to read in High Point
John Kessel and NCSU graduate Andy Duncan will give a public reading at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23, at High Point University in High Point, N.C., in the first-floor screening room of the Qubein School of Communications.
Andy Duncan received an MA in English with a thesis in creative writing from NCSU in 1994. He went on to complete an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Alabam, and is currently an assistant professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland. His first story collection, Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, appeared in 2000, and an anthology, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, edited with F. Brett Cox, appeared in 2004.
Dorianne Laux to read at Malaprop's Books
Dorianne Laux will read with her husband, poet Joseph Millar, at Malaprop's Books in Asheville on March 18th at 7 p.m.
Dorianne Laux's poetry collection a bestseller
Dorianne Laux's 5th collection of poetry, The Book of Men, was #6 in poetry on Amazon.com bestsellers list,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/9947/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_5_last
and #7 in poetry on The Poetry Foundations bestsellers list,
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/bestsellers.Contemporary.html
for the first week of March.
Jon Thompson Releases Three New Free Verse Editions Titles
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Tim Stinson participates at meeting in France
Tim Stinson was an invited participant at a plenary meeting of Europeana Regia held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on January 24-25; he represented the project's advisory board by providing feedback on the progress and work plan of the project to date.
Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi gives lecture
On February 9, Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi gave a lecture on “Orality, Indigenous Knowledge, and African Women’s War Narratives” at The Ohio State University's Center for African Studies.
Bob Kochersberger publishes essays
Bob Kochersberger has contributed several op-ed pieces to the News & Observer’s "Point of View" section in recent weeks:
"Healthier with universal care" on Jan. 9
"Make it a goal: cleaner roadsides" on Jan 27.
"Oil has long had us over a barrel" on February 24.
Kij Johnson a finalist for Nebula
MFA student Kij Johnson has a story on the final ballot for the Nebula Award this year.
Carolyn Miller reviews program
Carolyn Miller performed an external program review of the Department of English and Department of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida, February 2011.
Carolyn Miller presents at Writing Research Across Borders
Carolyn Miller gave a poster presentation, “Genres across Borders: A Scholar-Networking Site in Progress,” with Dylan Dryer, Chris Minnix, Matt Morain, and Ruffin Bailey at Writing Research Across Borders, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, February 2011.
Carolyn Miller publishes article
Carolyn Miller's article “Rhetoric as the Art of Concealment” was published in The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement, edited by David Coogan and John Ackerman (University of South Carolina Press, 2010, pages 19–38).
Carolyn Miller sponsors international student
Carolyn Miller sponsored an international student through NC State's Office of International Affairs Global Training Institute–Internship program, September 2010 through February 2011. Patricia Marcuzzo came on a “sandwich” term sponsored by the Brazilian government’s CAPES program (CAPES Grant 2295/10-5) to complete work on her doctoral dissertation in applied linguistics, “Science in the media: an analysis of the science popularization news genre.” She also received helpful research assistance from Cat Warren and Robin Dodsworth.
Free Verse Editions releases new titles
Free Verse Editions, the single-author poetry series edited by Jon Thompson, has just released three new titles: the Libyan poet Ashur Etwebi's Poems from Above the Hills, translated by Brenda Hillman, Lisa Fishman¹s Current and Emily Carr¹s Thirteen Ways of Happily, which won The New Measure Poetry Prize in 2009, judged by Cole Swensen. The New Measure Poetry Prize judge for 2011 will be Susan Stewart. For more information about these titles, or Free Verse Editions (or The New Measure Poetry Prize), go to http://www.parlorpress.com/.
Sigma Tau Delta holds book drive
From now until May 13th, the NC State chapter of the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, is running a CHASS-wide book drive to benefit the National Center for Family Literacy. They have partnered with Better World Books to channel donations to this literacy project and will accept any and all books in decent shape--textbooks, workbooks, fiction, non-fiction, children's books, paperbacks, hardbacks, etc. Look for donation bins in: the Caldwell Lounge, outside of Tompkins 248 and 249 (the metal dropbox), the D.H. Hill Library vestibule, the Honors Village Commons, and Bragaw Dormitory.
The Alpha Pi Theta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (affectionately referred to as S.T.D. by its members) is NC State's English Honor Society. To be eligible for the organization, members must maintain a GPA of 3.5 or more, be in their third semester of college, and have more than two English courses under their belt. The current chapter's mission is to promote and enjoy literature through a variety of service and enrichment activities, while at the same time ensuring that English is a visible part of the university's academic culture.
If you have any questions about the book drive or would like to donate to Sigma Tau Delta or support its service projects in some other way, contact the chapter’s President, May Chung (mayfchung@gmail.com); PR Officer, Drew St. Claire (dstclai@ncsu.edu); Secretary/Historian Meaghan Lanier (mrlanier@ncsu.edu); or Treasurer Heidi Klumpe (heklumpe@ncsu.edu); or faculty sponsor Rebecca Walsh (rawalsh@ncsu.edu).
David Reider's course accepted by CUE
David Rieder's special topics course titled "Introduction to Humanities Physical Computing" was accepted by CUE for inclusion on the fall 2011 "Interdisciplinary Perspectives" GEP list. It will be listed as IP 295.001. Kevin Brock has been assigned as TA.
David Rieder to present at NEH workshop
David Rieder will participate in (and present at) the NEH-funded "API Workshop" at the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Feb 25-26 @ University of Maryland.
David Rieder awarded grant
David Rieder and Patrick Fitzgerald (Design + Art) were awarded $14.5K by CHASS and OIT for a Digital Humanities SRA. The proposal was titled "Gesture as Ubiquitous Digital Language: Developing a Platform for Gesture- and Movement-Based Digital Humanities Projects Using Microsoft's Kinect."
Chris Tonelli judges poetry contest
He was the final judge for the Independent Weekly's poetry contest. The winners will be announced in the upcoming Poetry Issue.
Chris Tonelli's book reviewed
A review of Chris Tonelli’s book The Trees Around appears in the latest issue of Sink Review:
http://sinkreview.org/sr/chris-tonellis-the-trees-around/.
John Wall presents at conference
John Wall participated in the Program at the 26th annual meeting of the John Donne Conference in Baton Rouge, LA, February 17-19, 2011. He read a paper entitled "John Donne, Occasional Preacher: A Response" for a panel of papers that dealt with examples of Donne's preaching outside of his usual venues.
NTT awarded instructional grants
Congratulations to the following NTT faculty members, who were awarded English Department Instructional Development Grants for Spring 2011:
Ashley Burns — "Student-led Discussion: A Proposal"
Daun Daemon — "Instructional Videos for Writing Courses"
Katherine Hagopian — "Student Perceptions of Hybrid Writing Instruction:
A Study of Hybrid First-Year Writing Courses"
Denise Heinze — "Designing and Assessing Online Version of Eng. 265"
Ann Henley — "Proposal for Development of Online Version of English 262:
English Literature II"
Laura Linker — "Learning Second Life"Gene Melton — "A Redesigned English 261"
Gene Melton — "A Redesigned English 261"
Matt Porter — "A Hybrid Community: Lessons from NCSU’s Hybrid Courses"
William Shaw — "Updating and Augmenting My 'Moodle' ENG 209: Introduction
to Shakespeare"
Tom Wallis — "Using Moodle to Facilitate Interactive Film Journals"
Chris Anson presents paper at WRAB
Chris Anson, with CRDM student Karla Lyles, presented a paper at the 4th International Writing Research Across Borders conference in Fairfax, VA, on Feb. 19: "Charting the Influence of Composition Studies on Discipline-Based Publication About Student Writing, 1967-2006." With other members of the scientific committee for the conference, Chris voted to establish a new organization, the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research, which will take over the WRAB conference (to be held every 2-3 years).
Sharon Settlage publishes article
Sharon Settlage’s article "Hydroponics Gardening Produces Winter Bounty" appeared in the Jan/Feb issue of Triangle Gardener.
Jon Thompson's poetry published
Jon Thompson published three poems in 1913: A Journal of Forms:
“How everything is far away,”
“Amidst the suffering there¹s the question,” and
“Men without fear make incalculable beauty.”
Sheila Smith McKoy has upcoming appearances
Sheila Smith-McKoy will read selected poetry at Mt. Olive College on March 15th.
She will also lead a discussion on Dolen Perkins-Valdez's novel, Wench, for the READ SMART series on April 21st at the Cameron Village Library at 7 p.m.
John Kessel participates in round table discussion
John Kessel participated in a recent round-table discussion on "Writing Within and Without Genre," which has been posted by Locus Magazine: http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/2011/02/locus-roundtable-writing-within-genre/
John Kessel is featured author
John Kessel’s story "Clean" is the cover story of the March 2011 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
Daun Daemon participates in OFD presentation
Daun Daemon wrote content for the Office of Faculty Development presentation “Creating Assignments and Providing Resources to Help Your Students Improve Their Use of Scholarly Information in Their Writing and Research.” She participated remotely via Elluminate with her co-presenter, Kim Duckett, Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning with the D.H. Hill Library. February 2, 2011.
Award winning film faculty
Join the film program in congratulating two of its faculty members who have recently earned recognition for their teaching.
Senior Lecturer Tom Wallis was named the 2010-11 Outstanding Lecturer Award by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Maria Pramaggiore is the CHASS nomineee for the prestigious Board of Governors' Teaching Award. Both awards originate with nominations from students.
New Dialect Developing in Raleigh
A new dialect is forming in Raleigh, and Scarlett O'Hara it ain't. There's a gradual shift toward a less distinctive regional accent, and our vowel sounds are leading the way." Language is always changing, always in flux," said Robin Dodsworth, an associate linguistics professor at NC State University in a recent News and Observer article. "Over time in Raleigh, the Southern variant is disappearing." ... Read More
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English Major Wins Innovation Institute Competition
NC State Park Scholar Vinnie Feucht (English ‘11) has won the highly competitive Innovation Institute Scholarship from ThinkImpact. The nonprofit helps students learn social entrepreneurship in rural Africa by developing sustainable products and ... Read More
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Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi's recent publicaitons and appearances
Publications
“Un-Masking the Mediator: Werewere Liking’s Flashes of Light” in “The Original Explosion that Created Worlds”: Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writings. Ed. John Conteh-Morgan and Irène Assiba d’Almeida. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010. 63-88.
“Plantain Leaf Baby.” Mythium: The Journal of Contemporary Literature and Cultural Voices 1.2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 132-143.
“Slow Poison” in African Women Writing Resistance. Ed. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez et al. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 2010. 198-209.
Co-edited a special double issue on “Création littéraire et archives de la mémoire/Literary Creation and the Archives of Memory” of Journal des Africanistes, 80.1-2 (2010): 9-241.
Lectures and Fiction Readings
October 12 and November 16, 2010: Fiction Reading and book discussion at Piedmont Community College Roxboro and Caswell campuses in their Read ’n See: Learning Resources Book Club series. My book The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba was adopted by the LRC for the fall 2010 semester.
October 13, 2010: Gave lecture at the University of Montevallo as part of the Activities of the Inauguration of the 15th President of the University of Montello, AL.
October 21, 2010: Gave lecture at the University of Tampa.
Conferences
December 3, 2010: Invited to introduce Caribbean writer Maryse Condé, the keynote speaker, at a conference on “African-Americans in the African Imagination” at the University of Rochester, NY.
Jan 7, 2011: Spoke at a special MLA session on “African Women Writers: Living New Lives, Telling New Stories.”
NC State University Poetry Contest
Calling all poets! Pen and send your poem by March 1 for the annual North Carolina State University Poetry Contest. Open to all North Carolina residents (some exceptions apply), the contest is one of the largest free-entry poetry competitions in the ... Read More
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Mary Helen Thuente publishes articles
M. H. Thuente's “The Harp as a Palimpsest of Cultural Memory,” Memory Ireland: Explorations appears in Irish Cultural Memory. Vol. 1. Ed.Oona Frawley. Syracuse University Press, 2010.
Her article “United Irish Poetry and Songs” appreas in A Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Julia M. Wright. Blackwell, 2010. Pp. 261-275.
Susan Katz quilts for a cause
Susan Katz gave a talk to the seventh graders at the Exploris Middle School on Friday, January 21st, about quilting and Project Linus (http://www.projectlinus.org/). With her help, the students will make 16 baby quilts that Project Linus will donate to local hospitals and homeless shelters. Each student also wrote a message of hope on a square of fabric, and Susan will make those squares into two twin-sized quilts that will also be donated to Project Linus. This is the third year that she has collaborated with NCSU alumna and Exploris Middle School teacher Arielle Angle on this project.
Stan Dicks publishes book chapters
Stan Dicks's chapter "Designing Usable and Useful Solutions for Complex Systems: A Case Study for Genomics Research" appears in Usability of Complex Information Systems (2011), Eds. M. Albers and B. Still, Taylor & Francis.
His chapter "The Effects of Digital Literacy on the Nature of Technical Communication Work"appears in Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice (2010), Ed. R. Spilka, Routledge.
Jason Miller publishes book
Jason Miller has published his book Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture from the University Press of Florida. For more information, please visit: http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MILLE006. He will present sections of research from this book at the NC State University African-American Cultural Center, Thursday, February 10, 7:00 and at Quail Ridge Books, Friday, February 18, 7:30 P.M. For more information, please see: http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/jason-miller-ncsu-professor-langston-hughes.
Chris Tonelli publishes interview
Chris Tonelli has recently had an interview with Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman appear in Coldfront (http://coldfrontmag.com/category/poets-off-poetry).
If you happen to be in Brooklyn this weekend, he will be reading at The Stain of Poetry Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/). And if you are going to AWP in DC, come see him at the Bookfair, where he will be manning table A5 for his press, BIRDS, LLC (http://www.birdsllc.com/).
Chris Anson presents in Saudi Arabia and Sweden
Chris Anson gave invited presentations at Dar Al-Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ("Writing Across the Curriculum and the Transformation of Learning") and at the University of Uppsala in Sweden ("Research on Writing in Higher Education: A Brief History and Some Unanswered Questions") on Dec. 13 and Nov. 12, respectively.
Chris Anson Publishes in Numerous Venues
Together with ex-M.A. students Matt Davis and Domenica Vilhotti, Chris Anson published a chapter on generating collective criteria with students in Teaching With Student Texts, ed. Joseph Harris, John Miles, and Charles Paine. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2011. 35-45.
Together with ex-M.A. student Maureen Matarese, Chris Anson published a chapter, "Teacher Response to AAE Features in the Writing of College Students: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Error" in The Elephant in the Classroom: Race and Writing. Ed. Jane Bowman Smith. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010. 111-136.
Together with ex-M.A. student Shawn Neely, Chris Anson published an article, "The Army and the Academy as Textual Communities: Exploring Mismatches in the Concepts of Attribution, Appropriation, and Shared Goals" in Kairos, 14.3 (2010).
Anson, Chris M. "Absentee Landlords or Owner-Tenants? Formulating Criteria for Dual-Credit Composition Programs. College Credit for Writing in High School: The "Taking Care of" Business. Ed. Kristine Hansen and Christine R. Farris. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. 2010. 245-271.
Anson, Chris M. "The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, 1967-1986." The WAC Journal, 21 (2010): 5-20.
Anson, Chris M. "A Field at Sixty-Something." College Composition and Communication, 62.1 (2010): 216-228.
Blue Velvet at NCMA
Devin Orgeron will be introducing David Lynch's Blue Velvet (in commemoration of the film;s 25th anniversary)at the NC Museum of Art, Friday, Jan. 28 at 8:00. They sold out last week's film, so buy your tickets in advance: http://ncartmuseum.org/calendar/event/2011/01/28/blue_velvet/
Hope to see you there! Devin will also be on NPR's State of Things during the noon hour on Friday with NCMA Film Curator Laura Boyes for a brief segment to talk about the screening and the film's connection to NC.
Jon Thompson in Horizon Review
Jon Thompson's poems "American Sublime" and "Leptis Magna" appear in Horizon Review, Issue 5, January, 2011 (http://www.saltpublishing.com/horizon/index.htm).
Elaine Orr's recent publications
Elaine Orr's short story "The Hausa Trader" appears in Specs: A Journal of Contemporary Culture and Arts (2010, Issue 3, pages 49-60). Her memoir "Passing the Cups" appears in PoemMemoirStory (2010, No. 10, pages 75-80).
Dorianne Laux at AWP conference
Dorianne Laux will participate in several programs at the AWP annual conference in Washington, D.C., February 2-5:
The Vietnamese Children’s Art Exhibit Reading. Feb. 3-4
Norton Booth, signing The Book of Men, Feb. 4
Carpetbagging for Poetry, Feb. 5
How a Poem Happens: Six Poets Explore How Their Poems Were Made, Feb. 5
Sarah Egan Warren creates Study Abroad program
Sarah Egan Warren will be the faculty director of a new study abroad program this summer: LONDON:ENG 331. Currently, she is recruiting engineering students for the program. The students will complete the typical ENG 331 assignments while using London as part of their classroom. Also, they will participate in four site visits at engineering and technology companies in and around London. From these site visits and interviews, the students will contribute to the ongoing Communication in the Workplace research.
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Tim Stinson in business journal
Tim Stinson's work on the genetic analysis of medieval parchment was featured in the January 7 issue of the Triangle Business Journal.
Tim Stinson receives grant
Tim Stinson was awarded a planning grant of $29,500 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Tim will work with Dot Porter of Indiana University to develop the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Association (MESA), a peer-reviewed, cross-searchable federation of digital medieval studies
projects.
Miller-Cochran and Brock receive grant
Kevin Brock, a PhD student in the CRDM program, and Susan Miller-Cochran received an NCSU Diversity Mini-Grant for their project "Universal Design for Learning: Rethinking Difference and Access." The grant will provide support for a workshop toward the end of the spring semester on pedagogical design for students with disabilities.
Susan Miller-Cochran publishes article
Susan Miller-Cochran’s article “Beyond Typical Ideas of Writing: Developing a Diverse Understanding of Writers, Writing, and Writing Instruction” will appear in the upcoming issue of College Composition and Communication (Vol. 62, pages 550-559).
Erik Thomas publishes book
Erik Thomas’s book Sociophonetics: An Introduction was published this month by
Palgrave Macmillan.
Sheila Smith-McKoy
On January 27, Sheila Smith-McKoy wlll take part in a town-meeting panel discussion titled "James Baldwin: Is His Work Still Relevant in the 21st Century?" at Quail Ridge Bookstore. Co-panelists are Randall Kenan (UNC), James Coleman (UNC) and Maurice Wallace (Duke University). Clay Stalnaker will be the moderator. On February 15, Smith-McKoy will take part in UNC Pembroke's 2011 African-American Read-In.
Jon Thompson in the Colorado Review
Jon Thompson's “Deathward We Ride” and “[Ceaseless this wandering epic]”
appear in the Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2010 (Vol. 37, No. 3).
Denise Heinze publishes memoir
Denise Heinze's memoir, "The Unbearable Heaviness of Being," was published
in the Fall 2010 issue of SHOAL, the literary journal of Carteret Writers.
Sharon Setzer at MLA
Sharon Setzer delivered a paper — "The Life Writing of Harriette Wilson:
A Courtesan's Byronic Self-Fashioning" — at the MLA conference in Los
Angeles, on Jan. 9, 2011.
Tony Harrison edits Rossetti book
As one of three Completing Editors, Tony Harrison was pleased to see Volume 9 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti appear in his mailbox in early January. The 730-page tome weighs in at about five pounds and is published by Boydell and Brewer.
Charlotte Gross published in Mediaevalia
Charlotte Gross' essay, "Augustine and the Angels of San Marco," appears in the 2010 Annual Issue of Mediaevalia , an interdisciplinary journal from CEMERS, SUNY Binghampton.
Raleigh Review vol. 1
Raleigh Review vol. 1 is now available at Quail Ridge Books & Music in the Ridgewood Shopping Center as well as the NC State University Bookstore.
While the Review is a national literary & arts magazine, the issue does feature some of NC State University's very own poets & writers, including:
Lee Bradbury's poem, "Gelding"
Josh Eure's flash, "It's Sci-Fi"
Emily Howson's flash, "Crawl Space"
Dorianne Laux's poem, "Without God"
among others...
The 2010 issue, printed by The Sheridan Press, may also be ordered via Paypal from the Raleigh Review.
Setting the Raleigh Public Record straight
Although fewer people are sitting down with a cup of coffee and unrolling a printed newspaper these days, a CHASS alum has found a way to deliver local news to Raleigh’s residents over the web while also doing what he loves.
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Kellner on Narrative
Hans Kellner has published an essay on the use of narrative analysis in Teaching Narrative Theory, edited by Herman, McHale, and Phelan, and published by the Modern Language Association.
Devin Orgeron at NLM
As part of their 2010 “History of Medicine Lecture Series,” Devin Orgeron has been invited to present his research on sponsored health films at NIH/NLM (National Library of Medicine). Devin’s talk, “Projecting Prevention: TB, Edgar Ulmer, and Racializing the Sponsored Health Film” will be followed by a screening of Edgar Ulmer’s “Let my People Live,” a 1939 TB film aimed at the African American community and shot at Tuskegee University. /Dec. 7, 2010 – 2:00-3:30 – bldg. 38a – NLM Visitor Center - NLM/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland/
Elaine Orr to present the Palmer MemorialLecture for 2010
Elaine Orr, Professor of English, will present the Palmer Memorial Lecture for 2010, at 7:30 p.m., November 9, at University of the Cumberlands, Kentucky. Each year an author is invited to UC’s campus to present a public lecture/reading and to visit certain university classes. Elaine Orr will be the twentieth Palmer lecturer, preceded by such well known authors as Jim Wayne Miller, Billy Collins, Frank X.Walker, Natalie Kusz, Rita Quillen, and Lee Smith.
Rouphail Poems Published in Mainstreet Rag
Mainstreet Rag has notified Maria Rouphail of its intent to publish two of her poems, “For Paul in His Absence” and “Arrival.”
Maria Rouphail also read three of her poems at the NCWN “Poetry Spark” in Raleigh on September 17, 2010.
New Issue FREE VERSE
Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics is pleased to announce the release of Issue 18 (Summer, 2010).
Poetry by Boyer Rickel, Jennifer Clarvoe, Gail Mazur, Gabrielle Jesiolowski, Jasson Labbe, Lisa Fishman, James McLaughlin and Claudia Keelan.
Essays and Reviews: John Felstiner on Paul Celan; Stacy Cartledge on Michael Smith’s Multiverse
Supplement I: “On the State of Poetry Publishing in the New Millennium: A Roundtable by Free Verse [interviews with the editors of Shearsman Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, Phoenix Poets Series/University of Chicago and Copper Canyon Press].
Supplement II: Poems from Instances: Selected Poems by Jeongrye Choi, translated by Brenda Hillman, Wayne de Fremery and Jeongrye Choi.
Cover image by Scott Helmes
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/index.html
Denise Heinze Short Stories
Denise Heinze's short story "Trick" was published online in July by Gemini Magazine. "Trick" won honorable mention in Gemini's 2010 Short Story Contest. Heinze also won honorable mention for "Jacob's Ladder" in the Writers Weekly Summer 24 Hour Short Story Contest.
Home Movie Day 2010!
Home Movie Day Raleigh A local celebration of amateur home movies and a chance to learn how to preserve them for future generations to enjoy.
NOTE: Even if you don't have anything to screen, Home Movies are a great SPECTATOR sport!
When: Saturday October 16th, 1pm - 4pm
Where: North Carolina State Archives Auditorium, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh NC 27601 Easy, free parking!
What: Dig through your closets, call up Grandma, search out your family's home movies (of vacation, holidays, family events, whatever), and bring a reel or two of your 8mm, Super 8, or 16mm home movies (sorry, no video or slides). We'll watch them and give you information on how to keep them safe. Also play Home Movie Day Bingo for fun and prizes!
For More Information: Visit http://www.avgeeks.com/hmd.html
Or contact us, Skip Elsheimer: skip@avgeeks.com or Marsha Orgeron: marsha_orgeron@ncsu.edu
Maria Pramaggiore to introduce film at MOMA
Maria Pramaggiore will introduce a film at the Museum of Modern Art during a retrospective series honoring the work of Barbara Hammer. On September 20, Maria will introduce NITRATE KISSES (1992), Hammer's experimental documentary on gay and lesbian representation throughout cinema history.
Walt Wolfram Introduces Chancellor Woodson to southeastern NC
When it comes to dialects, North Carolina is one of the nation's richest states. Dr. Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished University professor and director of the North Carolina Language and Life Project recently introduced new NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson to some of that linguistic diversity as they toured around Pembroke, where Wolfram has done considerable research on Lumbee dialects and culture.
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Raleigh Review Poem of the Week - Lee Bradbury
Lee Bradbury's poem, "Gelding" is the Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week (July 18th, 2010). His poem is available in both text and in audio - here *Bradbury is a rising second-year MFA poetry student.
Carolyn Miller named Fellow of Rhetoric Society of America
Carolyn R. Miller was named Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America at its biennial meeting in Minneapolis, May 30, 2010. She has served the RSA as board member, conference organizer, and President, 1990-2000, and currently serves as editor of the Society's journal, Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
Fellows of the RSA are named in recognition of sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and service in the field of rhetorical studies.
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Professor Joe Gomez Retires
Professor Joe Gomez, Founding Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, plans to retire this summer after 22 years of service to NCSU. In addition to pioneering the scholarly study of British cinema, Joe established and built the Film Studies Program, a thriving unit that boasts more than 40 majors and 7 graduate students, as well as many successful alumni. Joe’s legacy can be felt not only on campus and throughout the film culture of the Triangle, but also nationally and internationally, as a result of his writing, his teaching, and his dedication to mentoring students.
MS in Technical Communication Program Reunion
The faculty of the Master of Science in Technical Communication program cordially invites you to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our first graduates with a reunion of all alumni, faculty, and current students.Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:00 - 8:00 pm Courtyard patio outside Caldwell Lounge hors d’oeuvres, beverages
RSVP by May 15 Online or 919.513.1478
English Grad Rachel Wharton Wins 2010 James Beard Foundation Award in journalism
1994 NC State graduate Rachel Wharton has won one of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards in journalism for her food-related columns in Edible Brooklyn. Rachel's column is called Back of the House, and she won for columns on “Egg,” “Roberta’s,” “Franny’s and Bklyn Larder.” Time magazine has called the Beard Foundation awards the "Oscars of the food world." Rachel, an NCSU English major, says of her experience in the department:
"You sometimes hear people with undergraduate degrees in English joke about how little this kind of degree can prepare you for a real job. But mine from NCSU not only prepared me for exactly what I do today as a full-time food writer, it got me a job before I even graduated -- as a writer for Coastwatch, an award-winning statewide magazine about coastal issues (including seafood, of course) produced right on campus.
"My coursework in writing and editing was the key: In fact, my copyediting professor (Nancy Margolis) was the hardest copyeditor I've ever come across, and she prepared me well for the grumpy copydesk at the New York Daily News, where I worked for years as a features reporter covering food. And my senior thesis adviser (Rod Cockshutt), himself an N&O reporter, was also instrumental in teaching me not just how to write and report but also how to craft story ideas.
"And of course, my very first real published article was in the Technician, though sadly it wasn't about food. (If I recall, it was about Isaac Stern playing in Reynolds Coliseum. Back then, the basketball team actually did, too.) My only regret is that I didn't take advantage of all the top-notch agricultural and food science professors at NCSU I've since had to interview."
Scholarship Contributions
We greatly appreciate recent contributions to the English Interns' Scholarship Fund from
Chris Anson
Margaux Novak
Seth Styers
Heidi von Ludewig
An anonymous gift in memory of James Mueller
Laux's "Without God" - The Raleigh Review Poem of the Week
Professor Dorianne Laux's "Without God"
is The Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week (April 26, 2010).
The poem is available in both text and on audio -- here.
Correction
Dan Riechers name was misspelled in the article announcing recent contributors to the English Interns Scholarship Fund. We apologize for the error.
Film Alum Sells Screenplay for $3 million
NCSU alumnus Dante Harper has just sold a spec screenplay based on a graphic novel entitled "All You Need is Kill" to Warner Brothers for a figure close to $3 million!
Some of you will remember Dante from his first film, "The Delicate Art of the Rifle," which he made on the NC State campus while still an undergraduate. It features several English departrment faculty members in key roles. Dante has been working in the industry for a number of years, and has woked on screenplays for David Fincher and Bennett Miller.
You can read about his most recent success here:
http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/warners-makes-7-figure-spec-deal-for-japanese-novel-all-you-need-is-kill/
Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week (April 2 2010)
John-Michael Velez's poem "Hey Bartender" is
The Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week
and can be found here: Raleigh Review
Velez is currently a second-year MFA student of poetry and teaches ENG 287.
Conference presentation
Susan Katz presented a paper on "Assessing the Use of Technology to Enhance Student Learning" as part of the Committee on Computer Connections at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville on March 18.
Scholarship Contributions
The English Interns' Scholarship Fund greatly appreciates donations from the following contributors:
Sarah Burnside MS
Jessica Jameson
Neuse River Networks
Dan Reichers MS
We are VERY close to having sufficient funds for two scholarships next year. Please consider making a contribution. Your check, payable to NCSU Foundation, Inc., with English Interns' Scholarship Fund in the memo line, can be delivered to Susan Katz or directly to the Dean's office. You can also make a contribution online by visiting the CHASS home page and clicking on the "Giving" link.
FAMILY AFFAIR
Sunday
April 11 - 7:00
NCSU Campus Cinema
Free - Open to the Public
FAMILY AFFAIR - Chico Colvard
We are pleased to invite you to a screening of FAMILY AFFAIR, an official selection at Sundance 2010 and one of the New Docs at the Full Frame Documentary festival.
There will be a Q&A and a chance to meet the director, Chico Colvard. The event will take place on Sunday, April 11th at 7 pm in the Campus Cinema.
Please share with students and colleagues.
This promises to be a very powerful event; this personal film, Chico's first, is a moving and provocative account of childhood sexual abuse and the yearning for family ties that make it possible for survivors to maintain relationships with their abusers.
Writer/Producer David Sontag at NCSU
Film – Communication – CRDM – Creative Writing
***A special workshop/seminar***
An evening with David Sontag
FREE – Open to the Public – FREE
Winston 029
Monday, April 12: 5:00-6:30
David Sontag is currently the Wesley Wallace Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies is the Director of the Writing for the Screen and Stage Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an award-winning writer and producer and has written for Columbia Pictures, MGM, and Hollywood Pictures among others. Mr. Sontag has held important creative and executive positions at NBC, CBS Films and ABC. At ABC, he was Executive Producer of the Network and in charge of all Specials. In addition to his numerous television and film credits, Mr. Sontag was Senior Vice-President and creative head of 20th Century Fox Television. During his stay at Fox, he was responsible for some of our most outstanding television such as M*A*S*H.
Perhaps obviously, Mr. Sontag is also an unusually skilled storyteller. He will discuss his career in television and film; highlight the challenges he's faced as a writer and a producer; discuss changes in the industry; and offer students his own unique perspective on the world of moving image entertainment. Clips from major works will be screened and Mr. Sontag will also answer questions.
This is a unique opportunity to view the industry from the inside – please join us
Sponsored by the NCSU Film Studies Program
Film Series Neorealism at the Margins
LEGACIES OF NEOREALISM FILM SERIES
At the Witherspoon Campus Cinema
Sponsored by the Film Program and the UAB
ALL FILMS BEGIN AT 7 PM, FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
March 24
GOMORRAH (08)
Italy
Matteo Garrone , Dir.
35mm print
Intro: Dr. Ora Gelley
April 7
KILLER OF SHEEP (77)
USA
Charles Burnett, Dir.
Intro: Dr. Maria Pramaggiore
April 14
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' (07)
Romania
Christian Nemescu, Dir.
Intro: Dr. Marsha Orgeron
April 21
BEESWAX (09)
USA
Andrew Bujalski, Dir.
Intro: Dr. Devin Orgeron
Film Faculty Present at SCMS
Dr. Gelley will present a paper on "Neorealism at the Margins," while the Profesors Orgeron will present "'Golden Age' Educational films" and "Black Power in the Classroom," respectively. Dr. Pramaggiore will discuss the work of experimental filmmaker Chick Strand.
Kellner Speaks in the Netherlands
Interns
C&M Media Online
Jana Dunkley '06
Robert Greene '03
Tony Harrison
Deborah Hooker
Jennifer Potts '09
Sharon Setzer
Alex Storey '97
John Strange MS '09
The Fund is now just over $1,000, so we have enough for one scholarship for next year. We would like to raise another $500 before April so that we can award one scholarship for each semester next year. Please consider making a contribution by visiting the CHASS "Giving" page.
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Facilitating Multimodal Research
Miller-Cochran presenting at NCTE
Institutionalizing Second Language Writing
Call for Papers-Graduate Student Symposium
March 5-6, 2010
Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009
The Resurrection of the Paranormal: Investigating Otherness in 21st Century English Studies
With the recent explosion of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and the maintained popularity of films like Labyrinth, Poltergeist, and Night of the Living Dead, notions of the paranormal are captivating the popular culture scene and subsequently influencing the scholarly community in ways which are beginning to challenge traditional notions of the paranormal. While investigations of the paranormal have a visible place in the literary canon, as Bram Stoker's Dracula and William Shakespeare's Hamlet make clear, the overwhelming success of popular series like Twilight has led some to question their potential for scholarly application. As such, examinations of the paranormal are now growing to include considerations of what we have termed the PARAnormal. Unlike paranormal texts, which address the supernatural and the fantastic, PARAnormal texts function in ways that could be considered supernatural or fantastic. These texts do not necessarily deal with paranormal topics, but instead challenge the roles traditionally attributed to texts by the scholarly community. In transcending genres and blurring conventional boundaries, PARAnormal texts cause us to reexamine scholarly notions and consider the application of less traditional genres in the classroom. Thus, while paranormal texts are interested in Otherness, PARAnormal texts are Others. In bringing together a broad range of approaches to the study of the paranormal and the PARAnormal, this symposium seeks to foster a dialogue about Otherness in 21st century English studies.
We invite submissions from all areas of English studies that explore the ways in which the paranormal or the PARAnormal are represented, framed, or interpreted in the 21st century. While presentations need not focus on texts produced in the 21st century, we encourage submissions which approach the subject from a variety of modern critical perspectives. We will accept submissions of scholarly papers and original creative work.
Presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Magical realism as exemplified by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and Isabelle Allende
- Fabulous/Fantastic fiction as illustrated in the work of Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due
- Young adult fiction as characterized by J. K. Rowling, Charlaine Harris, and C. S. Lewis
- The construction of Otherness in paranormal texts
- Societal and cultural values portrayed in the paranormal
- Popular reception of paranormal texts
- The paranormal/supernatural as cultural heritage
- 'The voice of reason/rationale' in paranormal texts
- The paranormal or PARAnormal in popular media: Film
- Television Comics Gaming
- The paranormal or PARAnormal text as political statement
- Place of PARAnormal texts in the classroom
- Impact of PARAnormal texts on 21st century English studies
- Reclaiming cultural identity (Otherness) through PARAnormal texts
- Exploring gender identity (Otherness) through PARAnormal texts
Please submit a 300 word abstract by December 21st to aegs.ncsu@gmail.com. Proposals must include the title of the paper, the name of the presenter, and institutional affiliations (including area of English study). Panels should submit three complete proposals in one document with a 100 word explanation of the panel theme. Individual presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. Panel presentations will be limited to 45 minutes.
This symposium is hosted by the NCSU Association of English Graduate Students.
It is sponsored by the NCSU English Department.
"Six Feet Under"
Jon Thompson published "Six Feet Under" in Third Coast (Fall 2009).
Dante Rossetti Letters, Volume 8 Published
D.S. Brewer has now published Volume 8 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for which Tony Harrison is one of four Completing Editors.
The Secret HIstory of Science Fiction
The anthology, a collection of stories from 1973 to 2008, makies the case for a rapprochement between science fiction and literary fiction. It contains stories by well known contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Margaret Atwood and Steven Millhauser, along with others by writers generally associated with science fiction like Lucius Shepard, Kate Wilhelm, Thomas Disch, and Maureen McHugh.
Kessel also reports the publication of a new story, "Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance," in the original anthology The New Space Opera 2.
NC Symposium on Teaching Writing
The second annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing, hosted Oct. 16-17, 2009, by the First-Year Writing Program, was a tremendous success. We had 70 participants from colleges, universities, and high schools around the region (and from as far away as the University of Pittsburgh and Auburn University). Kathleen Blake Yancey from Florida State University presented the keynote and urged us all to think more about the connections and communication between high school and college-level writing programs.
Thank you to Kate Maddalena and Kevin Brock for organizing such a fantastic symposium!
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Contributions Acknowledged
- Bob Kochersberger
- Julianna Nfah-Abbenyi
- Seth Styers '07
- Cat Warren
We are currently at $575, so we need only an additional $175 to support one student next year. Our goal is to raise $1500 so that we can support one student each semester. If you would like to contribute to the fund, please contact Susan_Katz@ncsu.edu for information about how to make your donation or click on the link below. Please indicate "English Interns' Scholarship Fund" on any contributions.
Related Links: CHASS "How To Give" page
News from Susan Katz
She also gave a talk on "Assessing Visuals in the Writing Classroom" at the NC Symposium on Teaching Writing on October 17.
Reavis on TV?
At 10 p.m. Sun., Oct. 18, MSNBC, notorious for cheesy true-crime documentaries, will air a program called "Witness to Waco." It is apparently a part of just-in-time-for-Halloween series, "Secrets of the Cults."
In preparation for the segment, the network last summer filmed a six-hour interview with me. If it runs any of it, I will be watching to see what approach it takes to me. Always before, TV crews treated me as a wily investigative reporter, one of their own kind, they'd say, and therefore worthy of respect. I am now wondering if they won't press me into another mold, that of the unworldly English prof.
If anyone still wants to know about Waco and Koresh, I'd heartily recommend my book.
NOTfiction Film Series
NCSU Film Studies and the UAB Present:
NOTfiction film series: films from and about the margins of mainstream
at the NCSU Campus Cinema
Oct. 14: YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME: A FILM ABOUT ROKY ERICKSON (2005)
91 min. - Dir. Keven McAlester ' Intro: Maria Pramaggiore, Film Studies
This is the story of Roky Erickson: manic frontman for the legendary band The 13th Floor Elevators, creators of psychedelic music and muse to Janis Joplin. YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME is a disturbingly intimate portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion.
Known for his colossal heroin & LSD binges, struggles with schizophrenia, and an unthinkable term at Rusk hospital for the criminally insane, Roky went missing from the world. YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME reveals the shocking & triumphant truth behind one of Rock's great mysteries.
Oct. 21: DECASIA (2002) in 35mm!
70 min. - Dir. Bill Morrison; Intro: Maria Pramaggiore, Film Studies
Bill Morrison's film might be literally described as an avant-garde collage of decomposing film fragments set to an uncommonly evocative score. But this doesn't do justice to its lingering effects or its apocalyptic tone. Errol Morris describes it in the following breathless terms:
'A pure poetry of deliquescence. The images are at once haunting, mysterious, and incredibly beautiful. A definitive work of art. And a new kind of documentary documenting the decay of itself.'
Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker
Nov. 11: Special Veterans Day DOUBLE BILL
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM STORY
10 min - Dir. Bill Daniel (1998); Intro: Marsha Orgeron, Film Studies
Created for the Independent Film Channel's Split Screen series, Bill Daniel's film revisits the 1970 short film Selective Service System and interviews Dan Lovejoy and Warren Haake, who made the graphic depiction of an individual's attempt to avoid the Vietnam War draft as film students at San Francisco State University.
SIR! NO SIR! in 35mm!
85 min. - Dir. David Zeiger (2005)
SIR! NO SIR! is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960's'one that had profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time: The GI movement to end the war in Vietnam.
SPECIAL EVENT ' FILMMAKER AND FILM SUBJECT IN PERSON!!!
Nov. 18: ROCATERRANIA (2009)
74 min - Dir. Brett Ingram
Rocaterrania is a feature-length documentary journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler, a visionary artist who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth and illustrated the nation's history for six decades. FILMMAKER and UNC Greensboro Professor Brett Ingram and Raleigh Resident Renaldo Kuhler will introduce the film and take questions after the screening.
***all films begin at 7:00 and are free and open to the public***
Home Movie Day Raleigh - 2009
Home Movie Day Raleigh
A local celebration of amateur home movies and a chance to learn how to preserve them for future generations to enjoy. NOTE: Even if you don't have anything to screen, Home Movies are a great SPECTATOR sport!
When: Saturday October 17th, 1pm - 4pm
Where: North Carolina State Archives Auditorium, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh NC 27601
Easy, free parking!
What: Dig through your closets, call up Grandma, search out your family's home movies (of vacation, holidays, family events, whatever), and bring a reel or two of your 8mm, Super 8, or 16mm home movies (sorry, no video or slides). We'll watch them and give you information on how to keep them safe. Also play Home Movie Day Bingo for fun and prizes!
For More Information:
Visit http://www.avgeeks.com/hmd.html
Or contact us, Skip Elsheimer skip@avgeeks.com or Marsha Orgeron mgorgero@unity.ncsu.edu
Home Movie Day 2009
Come and learn about those old home movies!
Daun Daemon contributes to Interweave Crochet
Daun Daemon acted as an editorial consultant for the Fall 2009 issue of Interweave Crochet magazine. Her contributions were the descriptive names of the magazine's designs. Ironically, Daun is a knitter, not a crocheter.
Jill McCorkle Reading
MFA Faculty JILL McCORKLE will read from her new story collection, Going Away Shoes (Algonquin, $19.95), as part of the Owen-Walters Reading Series. She will read Thursday night, September 24th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Caldwell Hall Lounge.
Given the chaos out on Hillsborough, we may lose some of our regulars attendees, so do encourage your students to attend--and we'd really like to see faculty there, too! Copies of Jill's books will be on sale and, as always, admission is free.
Kessel Wins Shirley Jackson Award
http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2008_winners.php
The Shirley Jackson Award comes with a trophy that includes an engraved stone (in reference to "The Lottery").
Hutcheson Nominated for Emmy
Balaban, Nilsen Address Graduates
At the ceremony, Poet-in-Residence John Balaban and graduating senior Ryan Nilsen addressed the graduates and their families.
The complete text of Professor Balaban's and Ryan Nilsen's speeches are available online.
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Kessel Wins Nebula Award
Lloyd Biggle, Jr., the SFWA's first secretary-treasurer, originally proposed in 1965 that the organization publish an annual anthology of the best stories of the year. This notion, according to Damon Knight in his introduction to Nebula Award Stories: 1965 (Doubleday, 1966) "rapidly grew into an annual ballot of SFWA's members to choose the best stories, and an annual awards banquet."
Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year's award. An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is also published every year.
Film Studies and Full Frame Present
NCSU Film Studies and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Present:
Jeremiah Zagar's IN A DREAM
Witherspoon Campus Cinema
April 1 - 7:00-10:00
The filmmaker, Jeremiah Zagar, who won the Full Frame Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award in 2008, will introduce the film and take questions.
About the film: Over the last thirty years, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered forty thousand square feet of Philadelphia with grand-scale mosaics. When Zagar's son Jeremiah picks up a camera to document his father's career, he is confronted with the reality of the man in front of the lens. Mental illness, infidelity, sexual abuse, and addiction are some of the jagged pieces that make up the mosaic of Isaiah Zagar's life. IN A DREAM is an unblinking look at a celebrated artist who may not be the husband and father his family needs him to be.
NCSU Film Studies Alumnus to Premiere Film at Full Frame
Robert Greene, a graduate of the NCSU Film Studies Program, will debut his feature length documentary, OWNING THE WEATHER, at the prestigious Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, April 2-5 2009. Find out more at: www.fullframefest.org.
Salerno Wins Independent Weekly Poetry Contest
Chris Salerno, a long-time English Department Lecturer, has been named the winner of the 2009 Independent Weekly Poetry contest for his poem, "Whirl," which will appear in the Feb. 25th edition of the Independent. The prize carries a $500 award and the opportunity for Chris to read from his work at a reception/reading scheduled for March 18th.
LCW Major wins Dell Magazine Award
Undergraduate LCW major Joshua Eure has been named the winner of the 2009 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (formerly the Isaac Asimov Award), sponsored by Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and supported by the Humanities Institute at the University of South Florida and the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.
The $500 award goes to the best unpublished and unsold science fiction or fantasy short story submitted by a full-time undergraduate college student. The winner is invited to the IAFA annual Conference on the Fantastic in mid-March in Orlando, FL, and the winning story will be considered for publication in either Asimov's science fiction magazine or in the on-line version of the magazine.
Josh's story"We Were Real," was written for John Kessel's ENG 488 class in the spring of 2008. In addition, Maggie Morgan, a student in Kessel's ENG 388 class in the fall of 2008, placed third in the competition.
First Year Writing Program Awarded Certificate of Excellence
The NC State First Year Writing Program (FYWP)has been awarded a Writing Program Certificate of Excellence by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. According to FYWP Director Susan Miller-Cochran, the selection committee cited many noteworthy aspects of the program, including small class sizes, renewable full-time contracts for faculty members, the TA training program, and professional development opportunities provided by the program.
More information about the award can be found at: http://www.ncte.org/cccc/awards/writingprogramcert
John Kessel's Novelette Makes Nebula Award Preliminary List
John Kessel’s novelette Pride and Prometheus has made the preliminary ballot for the 2008 Nebula Award from the SF Writers of America. Only five stories in each category will make the final ballot.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 1,400 members, among them most of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy.
The Nebula Awards Weekend will be held April 24-26 at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, with the awards presentation banquet to be held on the UCLA campus to tie in with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. (With the spirits of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley on his side, how can he lose!)
Alumni News
Michael Begnal, MFA - Creative Writing - Poetry graduate (2008), has had some of the poems from his thesis published in the online journal Otoliths. These can be viewed at: http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2008/08/michael-s.html
Two more of the poems from Michael’s thesis, "Kells" and "Dead Rabbits," have been accepted for the Spring 2009 issue of Natural Bridge, the print literary journal of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Honors/Recognition
Visual artist Andi Sutton and Chris Tonelli received a $3,000 grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT to begin an installation piece based on the poems in Chris’s forthcoming chapbook For People Who Like Gravity and Other People.
Presentations
Marc K. Dudley recently presented at SAMLA (Nov. 7-9) in Louisville as part of the Hemingway Society's panel. Its theme was "Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hemingway.”
Recent Publications
Tony Harrison's new book, The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold, has now been formally accepted for the Victorian Studies series at Ohio University Press. It is scheduled to appear in Spring 2010. Volume 7 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for which Tony is a Completing Editor, is forthcoming this spring.
One of Chris Tonelli’s poems that was published in Salt Hill was featured on Verse Daily : http://www.versedaily.org/2008/everysatellite.shtml. Chris also has poems forthcoming in LIT.
