English News

James Clark to Receive Friday Aaward

Thu, 03 May 2012 14:50:02 -0400

Dr. James W. Clark Jr., professor emeritus of English, will receive the William C. Friday Award for Distinguished Service in Retirement . . .

Winning Student Filmmakers Head to Hollywood

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:56:29 -0400

Creative Writing student Tim Reavis teamed up with two other students to create "The Strong One," a short film about a young boy and his buddy -- a brontosaurus. . . .

Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony welcomed new members, Saturday, April 21 (click for photo)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:15:49 -0400

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi serves as guest editor, gives presentations

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:27:47 -0400

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi served as guest editor of a special issue of The Global South 5.2 (Spring 2012) and wrote the introduction: . . .

Dick Reavis publishes essay, speaks at university

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:27:00 -0400

Dick Reavis published his essay "April 13 and the Original Occupy Raleigh" in the News & Observer on April 13.

He spoke to a class . . .

John Wall presents paper

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:26:14 -0400

On April 21, John Wall read a paper entitled “The Early Modern Sermon as a Collaborative Experience: The Case of John Donne at Paul’s Cross" at a meeting of the New England Anglican Studies Conference at Harvard University.

Rebecca Walsh to lead seminar, co-chair society

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:25:10 -0400

Rebecca Walsh will co-lead a seminar at this fall's Modernist Studies Association conference (October 18-21 in Las Vegas) called "Rethinking . . .

Bob Kochersberger publishes essay

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:46:09 -0400

Bob Kochersberger’s essay “Help the troops by reviving the draft” appeared in the News & Observer on April 16.

Susan Miller-Cochran leads workshops

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:45:23 -0400

On April 14, Susan Miller-Cochran facilitated a workshop on "Working with International Student Writers" for faculty who teach writing intensive . . .

Nancy Penrose publishes paper

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:44:08 -0400

Nancy Penrose published “Professional Identity in a Contingent-Labor Profession: Expertise, Autonomy, Community in Composition Teaching” . . .

Chris Anson publishes papers, visits politicians

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:05:49 -0400

As part of NCTE's Advocacy Day, Chris Anson visited the offices of Sen. Kay Hagan and Rep. David Price in Washington to make a case for the continuation . . .

Charlotte Gross presents at Columbia

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:03:30 -0400

In March, Charlotte Gross presented "Angels and Time: Reading City 12.16" at the Columbia University Medieval Discussion Group in New York.

Marsha Orgeron introduces film at symposium

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:02:35 -0400

On April 15, Marsha Orgeron introduced the Academy Film Archive restored 16mm print of Sam Fuller’s How to Light a Cigar at the Orphan Film Symposium, held at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

Fisherwoman Wins American Poets Prize

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:55:06 -0400

MFA student Sierra Golden has won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Prize. NC State participates in the annual contest that began in 1955. This . . .

Keeping a Dialect Alive on Ocracoke

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:07:45 -0400

Professor Walt Wolfram has taken students to the Outer Banks for spring break for 20 years. The annual expedition at first involved conducting research . . .

Faculty, graduate students present at the 4Cs

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:46:19 -0400

CHRIS ANSON was chair of the conference, which attracted more than 3,200 registrants. In his opening remarks, he thanked all his colleagues at . . .

David Rieder's work featured in various venues

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:28:56 -0400

David Rieder was invited to join the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab at the University of Southern California as a "Senior Research Affiliate"

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi gives reading

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:27:38 -0400

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi was a featured guest writer at Anderson University in South Carolina, February 27-28. She also gave a fiction reading at the university.

Elisa Lorello has novel forthcoming

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:26:56 -0400

Amazon Publishers will release Elisa Lorellos’s fourth novel, Adulation, in November. The book is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle formats.

Dorianne Laux to be featured poet

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:26:20 -0400

Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar will be the featured poets at Des Moines Area Community College's Celebration of Literary Arts Festival, April 1-4, in Des Moines, Iowa.

John Kessel gives reading, acts in play

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:25:26 -0400

John Kessel gave a reading from his novel-in-progress at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, in Orlando, Florida, March 21-25. . . .

Beryl Pittman chairs session, presents paper

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:35:35 -0400

Beryl Pittman chaired the session "Collaborative and Problem-based Learning" at the International Technology, Education and Development Conference held . . .

Marsha Orgeron gives presentation

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:34:22 -0400

Marsha Orgeron presented “Discovering Sam Fuller’s 1950s The Big Red One Location Scouting Footage” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Boston, MA.

Leila May presents paper

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:31:43 -0400

Leila May presented a paper on “Combative Spiritualism in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette” at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference in Asheville, March 22-24.

Maria Pramaggiore presents paper

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:16:17 -0400

Maria Pramaggiore presented a paper on the reality television show "The O'Neals" at the society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Boston on March 24.

Elaine Orr reads at conference

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:15:28 -0400

Elaine Orr was invited by the Literature Since 1900 Conference to read from her memoir, "Driving the Peugeot" (http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n2/nonfiction/orr_e/peugeot_page.shtml). . . .

Bob Kochersberger publishes essay

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:12:42 -0400

Bob Kochersbergers’s essay "Bottoms Up: Colonoscopies get easier?” ran in the News & Observer on February 25.

Susan Miller-Cochran receives grant, presents at conference

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:50:44 -0400

Susan Miller-Cochran and Meagan Kittle Autry received a research grant from the national Council of Writing Program Administrators for their project . . .

Gene Melton publishes, gives presentations

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:47:37 -0400

Gene Melton presented "(Not) Asking, (Not) Telling: A U.S. Military Man Comes Out on YouTube" at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual . . .

Jason Swarts wins award

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:35:57 -0400

Jason Swarts has won a technical and scientific communication award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). His article, . . .

Jon Thompson publishes poems

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:05:04 -0500

Four poems from Jon Thompson's sequence Strange Country appeared in the new issue of Common-Place, published by the University of Oklahoma (http://www.common-place.org/).

Free Verse releases new titles, issue of journal

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:04:17 -0500

Free Verse Editions, the single-author poetry series edited by Jon Thompson, recently released three new titles: James Capozzie's, Country Album, Christopher . . .

Marsha Orgeron gives lecture

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:01:01 -0500

Marsha Orgeron hosted an hour-long lecture, screening, and discussion at the Cameron Village Library, "A Disney Documentary," on February 17. The session . . .

Devon and Marsha to give lectures in London

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:00:21 -0500

Over the spring break, Devin and Marsha Orgeron will give three lectures in London related to their recently published book, Learning with the Lights . . .

Bob Kochersberger publishes essay, gives lecture

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:59:17 -0500

Bob Kochersberger’s essay "Flight 2012 on Aggravation Air" appeared in the News & Observer on January 28.

On February 9, Kochersberger . . .

Deborah Hooker publishes review

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:58:32 -0500

Deborah Hooker's "Reports from Underground," a review of Minnie Bruce Pratt's Inside the Money Machine, appears in the current issue . . .

Nora Shepard: Poet, Teacher, Advocate

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:49:02 -0500
Nora Shepard, a poet and alumna of the college’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program, was recently honored at the NC State Alumni Association’s . . .

Novelist causes 'hoopla' with her first children's novel

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:16:57 -0500
Dolly Sickles (English '96) has spent her career in grant-writing and marketing for nonprofits. She turned to writing romance novels as an escape from . . .

Keely Byars-Nichols win course development grants

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:29:43 -0500

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 . . .

Meredith Fosque and John Morillo win University Awards

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:38 -0500

Dr. Meredith Fosque and Dr. John Morillo were recognized by the Provost, Deans, and assembled dignitaries at the Undergraduate Academic Advising Awards . . .

2012 Statewide Poetry Contest Underway

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:01:52 -0500
Think you’re a promising poet? Enter the 2012 Statewide Poetry Contest, sponsored by NC State’s Creative Writing Program through the Barnhardt Family . . .

Dick Reavis to give lectures

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:08:00 -0500

On Feb. 14-17, Dick Reavis will give three lectures on journalism — two for students, one for the public — at Louisiana Tech, sponsored . . .

Marsha and Devin Orgeron publish paper

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:07:07 -0500

Marsha and Devin Orgeron's paper “An Introduction to an Interview with Jan Švankmajer that Turned into an Essay by Jan Švankmajer” . . .

Dorianne Laux to read, lead workshops

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:04:10 -0500

Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar will give a reading and conduct workshops at the Peddie Academy, February 8-9, in Highstown, NJ:

http://www.peddie.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=628226
. . .

Bob Kochersberger publishes essay

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:02:57 -0500

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

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:02:18 -0500

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

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:01:24 -0500

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 . . .

John Charles delivers paper

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:59:44 -0500

John Charles delivered a paper on Richard Wright's Savage Holiday, taken from his forthcoming book, Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy . . .

Jason Miller publishes book, has presentations and publications forthcoming

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:58:18 -0500

Jason Miller’s book Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture is now available in paperback from the University Press of Florida.

In . . .

Anne Auten gives presentation

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:56:23 -0500

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

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:22:38 -0500
Dan Neil (MA, English '86) returns to campus to discuss "Revenge of the Electric Car," in which he appears prominently. Neil has won the Pulitzer Prize . . .

Chris Tonelli receives grant

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:36:13 -0500

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

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:35:10 -0500

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

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:34:22 -0500

Chris Anson published "World Wide Composition: Virtual Uncertainties" in Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, edited . . .

Chris Tonelli featured on web site

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:17:23 -0500

Chris Tonelli is one of the many poets featured in the newly launched Knox Writers' House Recording Project:

http://www.knoxwritershouse.com/The_Knox_Writers_House_Site/The_Knox_Writers_House___Chris_Tonelli.html
. . .

Marsha Orgeron publishes paper

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:16:12 -0500

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

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:15:33 -0500

Devin and Marsha Orgeron, along with co-editor Dan Streible, have published Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States . . .

Gene Melton presents at MLA

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:14:07 -0500

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

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:13:25 -0500

Susan Katz co-edited the current (January–March 2012) issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, a special issue focusing on assessing . . .

Hill Taylor publishes article

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:00:21 -0500

Hill Taylor’s article "Mapping Everyday Articulations: Gender, Blackness, and the Significance of Space in Washington, D.C." is included . . .

Maria Rouphail to publish poems

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:59:19 -0500

Two of Maria Rouphail’s poems —"Interstate 70" and "Remembering January 1954" — will soon appear in Main Street Rag.

John Kessel publishes ebooks

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:58:37 -0500

John Kessel has recently published two ebooks: Corrupting Dr. Nice, an ebook version of his 1997 novel; and Ninety Percent of Everything, . . .

Sarah Egan Warren has proposal accepted, gives presentation

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:41:59 -0500

Sarah Egan Warren and Anita Vila-Parrish’s Interdisciplinary Liaison Program proposal was accepted and funded for Spring 2012. Warren teaches . . .

Orgerons receive seed grant

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:53 -0500

Marsha and Devin Orgeron were co-awarded a CIP Internationalization Seed Grant for developing a relationship between the NCSU film studies program and . . .

Dorianne Laux has poems forthcoming

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:05 -0500

New poems by Dorianne Laux will appear in Explosion-Proof Magazine, Solo Novo, The Normal School, Plume, Descant . . .

Bob Kochersberger publishes essay

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:39:12 -0500

Bob Kochersberger’s essay "Easy guns, hard deaths" appeared in the News & Observer on December 21.

Chris Anson publishes articles, gives address

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:38:19 -0500

Chris Anson has published the following articles:

(with CRDM doctoral student Karla Lyles) "The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on . . .

Kellner on "Historical Distance"

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:52:02 -0500

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

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500

Mark your calendars for some exciting opportunities to participate in North Carolina's Year of Communicating Science: 2012. The entire state of . . .

Learning With the Lights Off

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:02:00 -0500

Devin and Marsha Orgeron, associate professors of film studies at NC State University, along with Dan Streible of New York University, have edited the . . .

Enjoy a Little Sci-Fi with John Kessel

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500

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 . . .

Why Educational Films Matter: Educational Films In The United States (Part II)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:16:04 -0500

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 . . .

Alum Serves As One of Wake County"s Newest Assistant DAs

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500

As a new assistant district attorney in North Carolina's capital, Win Bassett '07 intends to serve the citizens of Wake County by administering . . .

The Way We Learned: Educational Films In The United States (Part I)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:04:09 -0500

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 . . .

Tim Stinson receives grant

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:54:22 -0500

Tim Stinson has been awarded a Research & Innovation Seed Funding grant by NC State. Tim is the principal investigator of "Genetic Analysis of Medieval . . .

Maria Rouphail publishes poem

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:53:20 -0500

Maria Rouphail’s poem "59 Degrees North Latitude" will appear in the next issue of The International Poetry Review.

Nancy Penrose presents paper

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:48:24 -0500

Nancy Penrose presented "Contingent Jobs, Contingent Selves? Exploring Professional Identity in Composition Teaching" at the National Council of Teachers . . .

Devin and Marsha Orgeron present at conference

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:43:55 -0500

Devin and Marsha Orgeron co-presented “Fatally Flawed Film Format: At Home with Kodacolor” at the Association for Moving Image Archivists . . .

Susan Miller-Cochran leads workshop

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:41:11 -0500

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

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:39:35 -0500

Carolyn Miller was a guest faculty member for a one-week interdisciplinary Ph.D. course on Reading Texts, Kultrans Project, University of . . .

Gene Melton participates in panel discussion

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:28:38 -0500

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

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:26:11 -0500

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

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:23:26 -0500

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 . . .

Sharon Joffe publishes book review

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:30:50 -0500

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

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:28:45 -0500

Bob Kochersberger’s latest essay, "Dodging the train wreck," appeared in the News & Observer on Nov. 12.

John Charles edits Obsidian III

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:19:31 -0500

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)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:00:22 -0500

Editor's Note: Readers of NC State's "The Abstract" are generally interested in research, science and technology. People who fall into that . . .

Shannon Gillespie wins UG Research Grant

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:42:47 -0500

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

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:50:42 -0500

The anthology Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka, edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, has just been published by Tachyon . . .

Laura Linker receives research award

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:46:57 -0500

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 . . .

Maria Pramaggiore nominated for award

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:15:42 -0400

Maria Pramaggiore is the CHASS nominee for the Board of Governors' Teaching Award for 2011-12.

Carolyn Miller presents paper

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:56:57 -0400

Carolyn Miller participated in the third invitational conference on rhetorical theory sponsored by the Department of English and the Division of Speech . . .

Rebecca Walsh publishes essay, presents paper

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:44:44 -0400

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 . . .

Jon Thompson publishes poem

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:41:53 -0400

Jon Thompson’s poem “Letter to Jim Jarmusch” appears in White Review, Issue 3
(http://www.thewhitereview.org/current-issue/).

Tim Stinson receives grant

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:39:23 -0400

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 . . .

Sheila Smith McKoy to give reading

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:37:19 -0400

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 . . .

Thomas Phillips publishes novel

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:31:21 -0400

Thomas Phillips’ novel Insouciance was recently published by Spuyten Duyvil (http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/index.htm).

Dorianne Laux wins poetry award

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:29:40 -0400

Dorianne Laux has won the The Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society for The Book of Men (

John Charles presents paper

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:27:09 -0400

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

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:00:31 -0400

Stan Dicks presented “Three Effective Methods for Improving Collaboration with Business and Governmental Organizations” at the Council of . . .

Morillo and Fosque win advising awards

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:58:22 -0400

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 . . .

CHASS Celebrates National Day on Writing

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:06:00 -0400

Step into new ways of writing on October 20. New technologies have expanded the possibilities for writing in multiple media, including digital media. . . .

Susan Katz gives presentation

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:32:20 -0400

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"

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:02:59 -0400

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

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:58:00 -0400

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 . . .

United States Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin Visits NC State

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:00:00 -0400

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 . . .

Maria Pramaggiore presents Horror Film at NCSU Women's Center

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:37:17 -0400

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. . . .

Carolyn Miller gives presentations, lectures

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:39:40 -0400

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 . . .

Carolyn Miller in online interview

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:33:54 -0400

Carolyn Miller’s joint interview with Charles Bazerman appears in “Rhetorical Genres” in Série Bate-papo Acadêmico . . .

Maria Rouphail publishes poems

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:25:21 -0400

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

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:33:13 -0400

Jon Thompson edited and published in Free Verse Editions one of Korea’s rising literary stars, Jeongrye Cho. Instances—translated . . .

Sheila Smith-McCoy to present

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:31:02 -0400

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

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:30:07 -0400

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

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:27:54 -0400

Dorianne Laux will give a reading, workshop and interview for Seattle Arts and Lectures on October 4th and 5th (http://www.lectures.org/).   . . .

Bob Kochersberger publishes essays

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:26:41 -0400

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

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:47:18 -0400

Dick Reavis’s article "Ft. Worth Red Scare" appears in the September issue of The Texas Observer, the liberal magazine of Texas and beneficiary . . .

John Kessel"s talk in Colombia on video

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:45:25 -0400

In March, John Kessel gave a talk about the social implications of science fiction, in the Orchideorama of the botanical gardens in Medellin, Colombia. . . .

Chris Anson publishes article, leads workshop

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:42:54 -0400

Chris Anson published an article, "My Dinner With Calais," in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, . . .

Tell a Story, Win a Prize

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:30:00 -0400

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 . . .

Tenure-Track Opening in Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:42:50 -0400

The Department of English is searching for a new faculty member to join its programs in technical communication, professional writing, and digital media. . . .

Emily Hoswon, Matthew Osborn, Caroline Swicegood, and Tara Taylor are thanked by students

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:06:51 -0400

Four English faculty members--Emily Howson, Matthew Osborn, Caroline Swicegood, and Tara Taylor--earned recognition from the Office of Faculty Development . . .

Creating a literary culture

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:47:00 -0400

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 . . .

Jennifer Nolan-Stinson publishes and presents

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:41:22 -0400

Jennifer Nolan-Stinson's article "Towards a Life History of Reading" appeared in Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the journal . . .

Sheila Smith McKoy publishes articles

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:30:58 -0400

Sheila Smith McKoy’s article "The Future Perfect: Reframing Ancient Spirituality in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters" appears . . .

Tim Stinson presents in Germany

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:24:03 -0400

Tim Stinson was an invited speaker at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography, July 20-22 at the Universität . . .

Beryl Pittman presents in Barcelona

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:20:14 -0400

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

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:55:46 -0400

Maria Rouphail has published two reviews recently. Her review of Helen Losse’s book of poetry Seriously Dangerous appears in the September . . .

Elaine Orr at writer's colony

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:49:42 -0400

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 . . .

Denise Heinze's short story honored

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:46:52 -0400

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

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:22:36 -0400

Five faculty members from the English Department--Keely Byars-Nichols, Tom Lisk, Maria Pramaggiore, Catherine Mainland, and Deborah Hooker--led discussions . . .

Jon Thompson publishes in various venues

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:04:02 -0400

Jon Thompson wrote the introduction to a new edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature (Exeter: Shearsman Books, . . .

Marsha Orgeron presents at two conferences

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:00:43 -0400

Marsha Orgeron gave two talks this summer. The first (in July) was a 45-minute co-presentation with Devin Orgeron titled “Lenticular Spectacles: . . .

Devin Orgeron presents at two conferences

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:59:33 -0400

Devin Orgeron spoke at two conferences over the summer. In July, he and Marsha Orgeron discussed “Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit . . .

Dorianne Laux's publications and upcoming readings

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:56:26 -0400

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 . . .

Meet Linda Watson, the "Cook for Good Lady"

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:00:00 -0400

Linda Watson (English '79) has had an extraordinary career that spans the corporate, political, dot com, and environmental worlds. She is currently . . .

Meet Dan Neil, Pulitzer prize winning automotive critic

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:54:00 -0400

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 . . .

English Prof Named American Council on Education Fellow

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:33:00 -0400

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 . . .

NYTimes References English Intern's Work

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:56:00 -0400

Summer internships can get students' work noticed in some high-powered places. Take senior English Major Sonny Ferares, who is interning with . . .

John Charles publishes essay

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:09:01 -0400

John Charles published his essay "A Queer Finale: Sympathy and . . .

Walt Wolfram to appear on History Channel

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:27:14 -0400

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

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:57:14 -0400

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:29:37 -0400

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 . . .

Tim Stinson publishes article, participates in conferences

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:28:06 -0400

Tim Stinson's article "Makeres of the Mind: Authorial Intention, Editorial Practice, and The Siege of Jerusalem" appeared in The Yearbook of . . .

Dorianne Laux's book reviewed in NY Times

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:26:53 -0400

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 . . .

Carolyn Miller is keynote speaker, workshop leader

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:25:58 -0400

Carolyn Miller presented on “New Genres, Now and Then” as the keynote speaker for the Literature, Rhetoric, and Values: 50th Anniversary . . .

Susan Miller-Cochran gives presentations

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:25:10 -0400

Susan Miller-Cochran presented a workshop titled “Working with ESL Students in Your Colloquium or WI Course” with Gigi Taylor (UNC-CH) at . . .

Robert Young publishes book

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:24:01 -0400

Robert Young's Justus Lipsius' Concerning Constancy, an edition/translation of Justus Lipius’ philosophical dialogue Concerning . . .

News from the Raleigh Review

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:22:32 -0400

The Raleigh Review Writers' House Bookshop Loft in Five Points is open. For information, go to http://www.raleighreview.org/Contact_Us.html.

Soldier turns Oxford Scholar

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:00:00 -0400

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, . . .

NC Museum Art to host readings from Obsidian Magazine

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:37:21 -0400

The NC Museum of Art in partnership with Carolina African American Writers Collective will host and event inclluding readings from Obsidian Magazine. . . .

Tara Taylor, semi-finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry

Sat, 28 May 2011 20:36:54 -0400

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

Wed, 18 May 2011 08:00:00 -0400

"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 . . .

Poetry winners on library web site

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:12:46 -0400

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

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:44 -0400

John Charles has delivered three talks recently:

"Race and Affect in Mid-Twentieth Century African American Fiction: The Case of Richard . . .

William Badger awarded Fulbright grant

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:53:20 -0400

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:47:26 -0400

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:45:19 -0400

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:40:22 -0400

Susanna Branyon Klingenberg presented her paper "'Who do you think you are?': Models of Vocation in O'Connor's Later Fiction" . . .

NC State Poetry Contest: Winners Announced

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:16:00 -0400

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 North Carolina State University Poetry Contest. Some 500 poems were submitted this year. Listen . . .

Dorianne Laux's readings and poems

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:48:24 -0400

Dorianne Laux will share a reading with poet Tim McBride on May 1 at Quail Ridge Books: http://www.quailridgebooks.com/.

Jon Thompson publishes poems

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:42:47 -0400

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:10:00 -0400

Maria Pramaggiore (English) has combined her enthusiasm for cinema and education to help build an outstanding Film Studies program at NC State. ... . . .

Leila May presents at INCS

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:14:15 -0400

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:12:07 -0400

Carolyn Miller presented “Genre Across Borders: A Scholar-Networking Site in Progress,” with Dylan Dryer, Chris Minnix, Matt Morain, and . . .

Raleigh Review receives Best of the Net honors

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:05:15 -0400

Raleigh Review Literary & Arts Magazine had one winner in the Best of the Net Fiction category — Josh Eure's story "It's . . .

CHASS Alum and War Photographer Chris Hondros Killed in Libya

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:49:00 -0400

Acclaimed war photographer Chris Hondros (English '93) has died after being injured Wednesday in Libya. Hondros, a senior correspondent for . . .

2011 Faculty Awards: Q&A with Christopher Crosbie

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:54:11 -0400

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. . . .

Tara Taylor a notable finalist for Inkwell poetry contest.

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:54:34 -0400

Tara Taylor's poem "Trompe l' eoil: A Portrait of My Kidnapper" was a notable finalist in Inkwell's 14th Annual Poetry Contest . . .

Maria Rouphail receives poetry honor

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:24:56 -0400

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

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:23:40 -0400

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

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:22:44 -0400

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, . . .

Denise Heinze receives short fiction honor

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:21:19 -0400

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

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:18:36 -0400

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

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:00:00 -0400

English lecturer Elisa Lorello has proved that publishers and literary agents are no longer essential to climbing the bestseller lists. Self-publishing . . .

Stan Dicks Presents at ATTW Conference

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:31:43 -0400

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

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:27:58 -0400

Sheila Smith-McKoy gave a presentation on April 8th at the College Language Association in Spartanburg, SC.

Her upcoming activities include . . .

Sheila Smith-McKoy publishes poetry and fiction

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:26:13 -0400

Sheila Smith McKoy published "Sweetness," "Pollination: Outskirts of Raleigh, NC 1968," "Assemblage," "Third Time?s the Charm" (poems) and one short . . .

Raleigh Review Writer's House to offer poetry workshop

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:25:08 -0400

The Raleigh Review Writer's House announces a poetry workshop with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, May 27–29 (Memorial Day Weekend) . . .

Josh Eure in Best of the Net

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:23:53 -0400

"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 . . .

Rebecca Walsh publishes essay in anthology

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:05:12 -0400

Rebecca Walsh's essay "Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Foreigner' and the Spanish-American War" has recently been published . . .

John Wall presents at Renaissance conference

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:02:17 -0400

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

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:00:30 -0400

"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 . . .

Jon Thonpson publishes poem

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:24:16 -0400

Jon Thompson published "[Nothing we love    is what we love —]" in Blackbox Manifold 6, March 2011. You can read the poem . . .

Tim Stinson publishes essay in anthology

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:21:14 -0400

Tim Stinson's essay "Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production" has been published in . . .

Elaine Orr was visiting writer in Rhode Island

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:19:47 -0400

Elaine Orr was a visiting writer at the University of Rhode Island in March. She participated in a month-long symposium, Crossing Borders: Women . . .

Gene Melton presents at Renaissance conference

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:04:30 -0400

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

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:01:46 -0400

An image from Laura Linker’s forthcoming book, Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670–1730, has . . .

Leila May presents at the Philological Association conference

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:45:11 -0400

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

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:42:23 -0400

Deborah Hooker's essay "Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton's The Virgin and the Swine: High Fantasy Meets the Female Social . . .

Erik Thomas publishes in American Speech

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:55:00 -0400

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:53:48 -0400

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:53:04 -0400

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0400

Maria Pramaggiore was a keynote speaker at the NCSU Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS) conference on February 26, 2011, presenting "Keeping . . .

Marsha Orgeron presents in New Orleans

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:48:51 -0400

Marsha Orgeron recently presented “Appropriating Motion Pictures: Edwin G. Boring, the Psychology of Testimony, and Thomas Edison’s Van . . .

Elisa Lorello has publishing success

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:47:43 -0400

News about Elisa Lorello’s publishing success appeared in the Charlotte Observer on Sunday, March 20, and was picked up by the Sun . . .

Dorianne Laux has upcoming readings

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:46:19 -0400

Dorianne Laux's upcoming readings include the third annual Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival (with John Balaban) on April 17 at the Page Walker . . .

Dorianne Laux an amazon.com hit

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:44:53 -0400

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:43:01 -0400

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:41:23 -0400

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:40:13 -0400

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 . . .

Bella Honess Ross to Lecture on Animation in Documentary Films

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:12:10 -0500

Please join the Film Studies Program in welcoming Dr. Bella Honess Roe, who will present "Animating Documentary: From Substitution to Evocation" on . . .

John Kessel to read in High Point

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:17:18 -0500

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., . . .

Dorianne Laux to read at Malaprop's Books

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:05:02 -0500

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

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:02:42 -0500

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 . . .

Jon Thompson Releases Three New Free Verse Editions Titles

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:11:08 -0500
Free Verse Editions is happy to announce the publication of three new titles in its series: Ashur Etwebi's POEMS FROM ABOVE THE HILL, translated by . . .

Tim Stinson participates at meeting in France

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:19:20 -0500

Tim Stinson was an invited participant at a plenary meeting of Europeana Regia held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on January 24-25; . . .

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi gives lecture

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:17:52 -0500

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

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:16:44 -0500

Bob Kochersberger has contributed several op-ed pieces to the News & Observer’s "Point of View" section in recent weeks:

Kij Johnson a finalist for Nebula

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:15:11 -0500

MFA student Kij Johnson has a story on the final ballot for the Nebula Award this year.

Carolyn Miller reviews program

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:14:15 -0500

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

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:13:25 -0500

Carolyn Miller gave a poster presentation, “Genres across Borders: A Scholar-Networking Site in Progress,” with Dylan Dryer, Chris Minnix, . . .

Carolyn Miller publishes article

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:12:29 -0500

Carolyn Miller's article “Rhetoric as the Art of Concealment” was published in The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and . . .

Carolyn Miller sponsors international student

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:11:20 -0500

Carolyn Miller sponsored an international student through NC State's Office of International Affairs Global Training Institute–Internship . . .

Free Verse Editions releases new titles

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:59:32 -0500

Free Verse Editions, the single-author poetry series edited by Jon Thompson, has just released three new titles: the Libyan poet Ashur Etwebi's . . .

Sigma Tau Delta holds book drive

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:47:25 -0500

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 . . .

David Reider's course accepted by CUE

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:46:19 -0500

David Rieder's special topics course titled "Introduction to Humanities Physical Computing" was accepted by CUE for inclusion on the fall 2011 "Interdisciplinary . . .

David Rieder to present at NEH workshop

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:45:12 -0500

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

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:43:47 -0500

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 . . .

Chris Tonelli judges poetry contest

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:42:10 -0500

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

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:41:25 -0500

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

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:40:32 -0500

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 . . .

NTT awarded instructional grants

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:39:46 -0500

Congratulations to the following NTT faculty members, who were awarded English Department Instructional Development Grants for Spring 2011:

Ashley . . .

Chris Anson presents paper at WRAB

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:37:55 -0500

Chris Anson, with CRDM student Karla Lyles, presented a paper at the 4th International Writing Research Across Borders conference in Fairfax, VA, on . . .

Sharon Settlage publishes article

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:37:11 -0500

Sharon Settlage’s article "Hydroponics Gardening Produces Winter Bounty" appeared in the Jan/Feb issue of Triangle Gardener.

Jon Thompson's poetry published

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:36:17 -0500

Jon Thompson published three poems in 1913: A Journal of Forms:

“How everything is far away,”

“Amidst . . .

Sheila Smith McKoy has upcoming appearances

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:35:01 -0500

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 . . .

John Kessel participates in round table discussion

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:44:43 -0500

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

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:43:40 -0500

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

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:42:46 -0500

Daun Daemon wrote content for the Office of Faculty Development presentation “Creating Assignments and Providing Resources to Help Your Students . . .

Award winning film faculty

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:38:00 -0500

Join the film program in congratulating two of its faculty members who have recently earned recognition for their teaching.

Senior Lecturer . . .

New Dialect Developing in Raleigh

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:58:00 -0500

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 . . .

English Major Wins Innovation Institute Competition

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:37:00 -0500

NC State Park Scholar Vinnie Feucht (English ‘11) has won the highly competitive Innovation Institute Scholarship from ThinkImpact. The nonprofit . . .

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi's recent publicaitons and appearances

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:49:48 -0500

Publications

“Un-Masking the Mediator: Werewere Liking’s Flashes of Light” in “The Original . . .

NC State University Poetry Contest

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:37:00 -0500

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 . . .

Mary Helen Thuente publishes articles

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:34:29 -0500

M. H. Thuente's “The Harp as a Palimpsest of Cultural Memory,” Memory Ireland: Explorations appears in Irish Cultural Memory. . . .

Susan Katz quilts for a cause

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:32:45 -0500

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/). . . .

Stan Dicks publishes book chapters

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:31:35 -0500

Stan Dicks's chapter "Designing Usable and Useful Solutions for Complex Systems: A Case Study for Genomics Research" appears in Usability of . . .

Jason Miller publishes book

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:29:46 -0500

Jason Miller has published his book Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture from the University Press of Florida. For more information, . . .

Chris Tonelli publishes interview

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:28:20 -0500

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 . . .

Chris Anson presents in Saudi Arabia and Sweden

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:25:17 -0500

Chris Anson gave invited presentations at Dar Al-Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ("Writing Across the Curriculum and the Transformation of . . .

Chris Anson Publishes in Numerous Venues

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:23:28 -0500

Together with ex-M.A. students Matt Davis and Domenica Vilhotti, Chris Anson published a chapter on generating collective criteria with students in . . .

Blue Velvet at NCMA

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:56:09 -0500

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. . . .

Jon Thompson in Horizon Review

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:29:26 -0500

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

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:29:06 -0500

Elaine Orr's short story "The Hausa Trader" appears in Specs: A Journal of Contemporary Culture and Arts (2010, Issue 3, pages . . .

Dorianne Laux at AWP conference

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:21:00 -0500

Dorianne Laux will participate in several programs at the AWP annual conference in Washington, D.C., February 2-5:

The Vietnamese . . .

Sarah Egan Warren creates Study Abroad program

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:14:51 -0500

Sarah Egan Warren will be the faculty director of a new study abroad program this summer: LONDON:ENG 331. Currently, she is recruiting engineering . . .

Tim Stinson in business journal

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:11:55 -0500

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

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:11:09 -0500

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 . . .

Miller-Cochran and Brock receive grant

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:02:37 -0500

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 . . .

Susan Miller-Cochran publishes article

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:59:58 -0500

Susan Miller-Cochran’s article “Beyond Typical Ideas of Writing: Developing a Diverse Understanding of Writers, Writing, and Writing Instruction” . . .

Erik Thomas publishes book

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:55:21 -0500

Erik Thomas’s book Sociophonetics: An Introduction was published this month by
Palgrave Macmillan.

Sheila Smith-McKoy

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:51:57 -0500

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?" . . .

Jon Thompson in the Colorado Review

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:45:47 -0500

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

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:42:20 -0500

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

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:00:18 -0500

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

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:59:30 -0500

As one of three Completing Editors, Tony Harrison was pleased to see Volume 9 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti appear . . .

Charlotte Gross published in Mediaevalia

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:57:27 -0500

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

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:51:01 -0500

Raleigh Review vol. 1 is now available at Quail Ridge Books & Music in the Ridgewood Shopping Center as well as the NC State University . . .

Setting the Raleigh Public Record straight

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:22:55 -0500

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 . . .

Kellner on Narrative

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:29:15 -0500

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

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:24:56 -0500

As part of their 2010 “History of Medicine Lecture Series,” Devin Orgeron has been invited to present his research on sponsored health films . . .

Elaine Orr to present the Palmer MemorialLecture for 2010

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:30:44 -0500

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. . . .

Rouphail Poems Published in Mainstreet Rag

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:09:00 -0500

Mainstreet Rag has notified Maria Rouphail of its intent . . .

New Issue FREE VERSE

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:29:06 -0400

Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics is pleased to announce the release of Issue 18 (Summer, 2010).

Denise Heinze Short Stories

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:10:34 -0400

Denise Heinze's short story "Trick" was published online in July by Gemini Magazine. "Trick" won honorable mention in Gemini's . . .

Home Movie Day 2010!

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:27:23 -0400

Home Movie Day Raleigh A local celebration . . .

Maria Pramaggiore to introduce film at MOMA

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:04:39 -0400

Maria Pramaggiore will introduce a film at the Museum of Modern Art during a retrospective series honoring the work of Barbara Hammer. On September . . .

Walt Wolfram Introduces Chancellor Woodson to southeastern NC

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:00:46 -0400

When it comes to dialects, North Carolina is one of the nation's richest states. Dr. Walt Wolfram, . . .

Raleigh Review Poem of the Week - Lee Bradbury

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:26:40 -0400

Lee Bradbury's poem, "Gelding" is the Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week (July 18th, 2010). . . .

Carolyn Miller named Fellow of Rhetoric Society of America

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:21:52 -0400

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 . . .

Professor Joe Gomez Retires

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:33:15 -0400

Professor Joe Gomez, Founding Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, plans to retire this summer after 22 years of service to . . .

MS in Technical Communication Program Reunion

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:29:54 -0400

The faculty of the Master of Science in Technical Communication program cordially invites you to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our first graduates . . .

English Grad Rachel Wharton Wins 2010 James Beard Foundation Award in journalism

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:17:58 -0400

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 . . .

Scholarship Contributions

Fri, 07 May 2010 10:19:06 -0400

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

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:30:57 -0400

Professor Dorianne Laux's "Without God"

is . . .

Correction

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:40:07 -0400

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

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:24:56 -0400

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 . . .

Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week (April 2 2010)

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:25:53 -0400

John-Michael Velez's poem "Hey Bartender" is
The Raleigh Review's Poem of the Week
and can be found here: . . .

Conference presentation

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:22:49 -0400

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

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:20:57 -0400

The English Interns' Scholarship Fund greatly appreciates donations from the following contributors:

Sarah Burnside MS
Jessica . . .

FAMILY AFFAIR

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:46:40 -0400

Sunday
April 11 - 7:00
NCSU Campus Cinema
Free - Open to the Public
FAMILY AFFAIR - Chico Colvard
We are pleased to invite . . .

Writer/Producer David Sontag at NCSU

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:06:36 -0400

Film – Communication – CRDM – Creative Writing
***A special workshop/seminar***
An . . .

Film Series Neorealism at the Margins

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:18:42 -0400

LEGACIES OF NEOREALISM FILM SERIES

At the Witherspoon Campus Cinema

Sponsored by the Film Program and the UAB

ALL . . .

Film Faculty Present at SCMS

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:24:32 -0500
Four members of the NCSU film faculty--Ora Gelley, Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Maria Pramaggiore--will present papers at the 50th annual conference . . .

Kellner Speaks in the Netherlands

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:08:32 -0500
Hans Kellner spoke, January 28th, at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His paper, "Horizon, Depth, and Elevation; Modes of Historical Distance" . . .

Interns

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:40:41 -0500
The English Department Interns' Scholarship Fund great appreciates contributions from the following:

C&M Media Online
Jana Dunkley . . .

Facilitating Multimodal Research

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:46:31 -0500
Susan Miller-Cochran and Shelley Rodrigo facilitated a workshop titled "Can You Digg It? Incorporating Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube into Multimedia Research Assignments" at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver, CO, on November 3, 2009.

Miller-Cochran presenting at NCTE

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:34:00 -0500
Susan Miller-Cochran will present her research on "Multilingual Writers and Cross-Cultural Composition at the Two-Year College," based on a study of ESL . . .

Institutionalizing Second Language Writing

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:31:28 -0500
Susan Miller-Cochran presented on a panel titled "Institutionalizing Second Language Writing" at the International Symposium on Second Language Writing in Tempe, Arizona, on November 7, 2009

Call for Papers-Graduate Student Symposium

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:37:00 -0500
North Carolina State University English Graduate Student Symposium
March 5-6, 2010

Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009

The . . .

"Six Feet Under"

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:49:24 -0500

Jon Thompson published "Six Feet Under" in Third Coast (Fall 2009).

Dante Rossetti Letters, Volume 8 Published

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:36:54 -0500

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

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:07:44 -0500
A new anthology, The Secret History of Science Fiction, edited by NCSU Professor John Kessel and by James Patrick Kelly, has just been published . . .

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:49:13 -0500

NC Symposium on Teaching Writing

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:23:38 -0400

The second annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing, hosted Oct. 16-17, 2009, by the First-Year Writing Program, was a tremendous success. . . .

Contributions Acknowledged

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:44:17 -0400
The English Department Interns' Scholarship Fund would like to thank the following people for their generous contributions, all of which were at the . . .

News from Susan Katz

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:37:34 -0400
Susan Katz co-authored an article entitled "'Yes, A T-Shirt!': Visual Literacy in the Writing Class" which was published in the September issue . . .

Reavis on TV?

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:46:01 -0400

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 . . .

NOTfiction Film Series

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:16:00 -0400

NCSU Film Studies and the UAB Present:
NOTfiction . . .

Home Movie Day Raleigh - 2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:55:15 -0400

Home Movie Day Raleigh
A . . .

Daun Daemon contributes to Interweave Crochet

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:41:46 -0400

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

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:58:55 -0400

MFA Faculty JILL McCORKLE will read from her new story collection, Going Away Shoes (Algonquin, $19.95), as part of the Owen-Walters Reading . . .

Kessel Wins Shirley Jackson Award

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:28:18 -0400
John Kessel's novelette, "Pride and Prometheus," has won the Shirley Jackson award for the best novelette of 2008. See:

http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2008_winners.php

The . . .

Hutcheson Nominated for Emmy

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:08 -0400
Neal Hutcheson, filmmaker for the North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP), has been nominated for an Emmy award for his TV production "The Last . . .

Balaban, Nilsen Address Graduates

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:45:31 -0400
The English Department's Spring graduation ceremony was held Saturday, May 7, 2009, at West Raleigh Presbyterian Church.

At the ceremony, . . .

Kessel Wins Nebula Award

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:50:12 -0400
NC State English Professor John Kessel has won the prestigious 2008 Nebula Award for best novelette with his work "Pride and Prometheus." The Nebulas . . .

Film Studies and Full Frame Present

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:09:37 -0400

NCSU Film Studies and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Present:
Jeremiah Zagar's IN A DREAM
Witherspoon Campus Cinema
April . . .

NCSU Film Studies Alumnus to Premiere Film at Full Frame

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:25:08 -0400

Robert Greene, a graduate of the NCSU Film Studies Program, will debut his feature length documentary, OWNING THE WEATHER, at the prestigious Full Frame . . .

Salerno Wins Independent Weekly Poetry Contest

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:10:35 -0500

Chris Salerno, a long-time English Department Lecturer, has been named the winner of the 2009 Independent Weekly Poetry contest for his poem, "Whirl," . . .

LCW Major wins Dell Magazine Award

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:04:10 -0500

Undergraduate LCW major Joshua Eure has been named the winner of the 2009 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and . . .

First Year Writing Program Awarded Certificate of Excellence

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:47:38 -0500

The NC State First Year Writing Program (FYWP)has been awarded a Writing Program Certificate of Excellence by the Conference on College Composition . . .

John Kessel's Novelette Makes Nebula Award Preliminary List

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:13:33 -0500

John Kessel’s novelette Pride and Prometheus has made the preliminary ballot for the 2008 Nebula Award from the SF Writers of America. Only . . .

Alumni News

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:44:09 -0500

Michael Begnal, MFA - Creative Writing - Poetry graduate (2008), has had some of the poems from his thesis published in the online journal Otoliths. . . .

Honors/Recognition

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:42:18 -0500

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

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:41:10 -0500

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

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:39:02 -0500

Tony Harrison's new book, The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold, has now been formally accepted for the Victorian Studies series at Ohio . . .