Nash Dunn

Jul 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for May/June 2022

DAUN DAEMON On May 29,Quagmire Magazine published Daun Daemon’s short story “Every Last Thing She Has,” which was inspired by her hairdressing mama. Daemon dedicated the story to her mother, who died in April. CHRISTA GALA The Study Abroad Office approved Christa Gala’s class The Struggle of the Free Press: Fake News and Conspiracy Theories, which will…

May 17, 2022

Emma Carter Wins Student Media’s Inaugural Phillips Award

Emma Carter, a fourth-year student studying graphic design and English, was recently awarded the inaugural Dean Phillips Award for General Excellence. The award comes with a monetary prize made possible by support for the Student Media Enhancement Fund.

Apr 30, 2022

Faculty News for April 2022

ASHLEY DAUGHTRIDGE Ashley Daughtridge has been named the Associate Director, Undergraduate Support in the First Year Writing Program, effective June 1. PAUL FYFE With Fionnuala Dillane of University College Dublin, Paul Fyfe organized and co-hosted “Multilingualism and Periodical Studies,” a half-day online workshop jointly presented by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) and the European…

Apr 7, 2022

MFA Poetry Alum Wins Prestigious Writing Prize

Poet Ina Cariño, who earned their Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from NC State, is one of 10 recipients of a 2022 Whiting Award.

Apr 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for March 2022

CHRIS ANSON In February, Chris Anson gave a campus-wide address at Rochester Institute of Technology on “How Threshold Concepts for Writing Across the Curriculum Can Transform Teaching.” At the CCCC convention in March, Anson and Nancy Sommers ran a virtual workshop on the creation of tiny teaching stories. BELLE BOGGS Belle Boggs, Jill McCorkle, and…

Apr 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for March 2022

CHRIS ANSON In February, Chris Anson gave a campus-wide address at Rochester Institute of Technology on “How Threshold Concepts for Writing Across the Curriculum Can Transform Teaching.” At the CCCC convention in March, Anson and Nancy Sommers ran a virtual workshop on the creation of tiny teaching stories. BELLE BOGGS Belle Boggs, Jill McCorkle, and…

Mar 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for February

PAUL COLBY Paul Colby’s story “Halfway Home” was published in The Main Street Rag, Winter 2022.  MARSHA GORDON Marsha Gordon’s co-directed documentary, All the Possibilities…, will be aired and distributed by North Carolina PBS (formerly UNC-TV).  It will be broadcast with a shortened version of her first documentary, Rendered Small, in a 30-minute program titled “Creative…

Feb 18, 2022

The Intersection of Literature and Big Data

Want to learn more about using digital tools to perform historical research? The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and NC State University Libraries are co-sponsoring a lecture series with the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Feb 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for January 2022

CHRIS ANSON On January 5, Chris Anson spoke about the effects of expressive writing on physical health at the 3rd Annual Conference on Writing and Well-Being in Tucson, Arizona. The essay version of his keynote at the 2019 EATAW conference in Gothenburg, Sweden (on the gains and losses of technology in writing instruction) has been…

Jan 5, 2022

Faculty Spotlight: Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi

Meet Distinguished Professor of English, Dr. Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi, who is also the assistant dean for diversity in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State.