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Faculty Notes for April 2017

Nash Dunn

Jul 1, 2017

Graduate Student Notes for May/June

Caroline Myrick presented “The Importance of Dialect Dictionaries in the Caribbean” at the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) 21st Biennial conference in Cave Hill, Barbados, on June 9. The paper focused on the publication of A Lee Chip: A Dictionary and Study of Saban English, which was published last year by the Language and Life Project at NC…

Jul 1, 2017

Faculty Notes for May/June

LINDSEY ANDREWS In May, Lindsey Andrews gave an invited lecture titled “Horizontal and Hysterical, or, The University Is Killing Me” in the departments of English and Women’s Studies at Grinnell College. The talk, about novelist Gayl Jones, is part of Andrews’ new book project on the history of (medical) hysteria, black women’s writing, and the…

May 22, 2017

Building a Legacy

NC State alumna Clare Jordan founded the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity more than 25 years ago. She now supports an endowment that will benefit students who are completing nonprofit internships.

May 10, 2017

Meet Some of Our Outstanding 2017 Graduates

Our army of nearly 38,600 Humanities and Social Sciences alumni will grow even larger this spring, as nearly 1,000 of our undergraduate and graduate students earn NC State diplomas for their hard work. Meet a few of our outstanding graduates and see what's next for them after commencement.

May 10, 2017

Meet Some of Our Outstanding 2017 Graduates

Our army of nearly 38,600 Humanities and Social Sciences alumni will grow even larger this spring, as nearly 1,000 of our undergraduate and graduate students earn NC State diplomas for their hard work. Meet a few of our outstanding graduates and see what's next for them after commencement.

May 10, 2017

Celebrating Our Staff

The college held its annual staff awards luncheon April 20 to recognize and celebrate Humanities and Social Sciences staff. Eight staff members were nominated for awards for excellence. The college also recognized staff members who have reached milestone years in their careers with the state.

May 8, 2017

Students, Alumni Selected for Prestigious Fulbright Grants

Six Humanities and Social Sciences students and alumni will teach English or conduct research abroad after winning prestigious Fulbright grants for the 2017-18 academic year.

May 4, 2017

Constructing Identity Among Italians at NC State

Using language as a window into their experiences, NC State graduate student and Fulbright fellow Cecilia Tomasatti conducted interviews with not only Italian students, but also faculty, about what it’s like to adapt to another country’s climate, culture and cuisine.

May 3, 2017

Graduate Student Notes for April 2017

Krystin Gollihue (CRDM) published her essay “Becoming Sensate: New Approaches to Observing Play” in First Person Scholar. Marisa Incremona (Rhetoric & Composition) presented “Blog Writing as a Metacognitive Writing Tool” at the College English Association 48th Annual Conference (Hilton Head Island, SC) on March 30. Incremona lead “A Conversation on Multimodal Visual Analysis” at the Unconference for (Ex)change,…

May 3, 2017

Faculty Notes for April 2017

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson was a keynote panelist at the Crossings Writing Conference sponsored by the University of Nevada-Reno on April 1. His article “Assessing Peer and Instructor Response to Writing: A Corpus Analysis from an Expert Survey,” co-authored with his son Ian (second-year Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore…