English News

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 film . . .

Home Movie Day Raleigh - 2009

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

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 Series. . . .

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 . . .