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Jan 5, 2022

Faculty Notes for December 2021

CHRIS ANSON On December 1 and 2, Chris Anson gave two presentations, “Tools for Digital Feedback” and “Digital Peer Review Programs,” at the Digitalization of Academic Writing book production workshop, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland. The trip was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Anson’s essay “Echoes of ‘Distance Voices’: A Retrospective…

Dec 8, 2021

Student Spotlight: ABM Student, Emily Waddell

Meet Emily Waddell, current M.A. in English student who is also a part of the Accelerated Bachelor’s-Master’s degree program.

Dec 1, 2021

Faculty Notes for November

CHRIS ANSON On November 13, Chris Anson was a plenary speaker at the III ALES International Conference, held virtually at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil. He also led a pre-conference workshop at the same conference on November 11.  PAUL BROYLES Paul Broyles’s chapter “Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English Romance”…

Nov 29, 2021

Study of African American Language Wins Prestigious Linguistics Award

A research team led by William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor Walt Wolfram has been honored for its unprecedented research on how language changes during the first 20 years of life.

Nov 1, 2021

Faculty Notes for October 2021

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson, along with co-authors Ian Anson and Kendra Andrews, published “Peer Review in First-Year Composition and STEM Courses: A Large-Scale Corpus Analysis of Key Writing Terms” in Composition and Big Data (Eds. Amanda Licastro and Benjamin Miller), University of Pittsburgh Press. RONISHA BROWDY Ronisha Browdy — with co-authors Esther Milu, Victor del Hierro, and…

Oct 26, 2021

Writing in 10-Minute Snatches of Time

Sarah Grunder Ruiz, 2018 NC State MFA fiction graduate, is a rising tide. Despite teaching full-time and anticipating the release of her debut novel, she still makes the time to pop up in zoom windows, sharing detailed slides and advice with current MFA students. Projecting organization and endless calm, she raises all ships, generously and freely sharing what she’s learned about writing and publishing, post-MFA. 

Oct 25, 2021

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Oct 9, 2021

Faculty Notes for September 2021

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson’s lead chapter, “After the Big Bang: The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies,” has been published in The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research (Peter Lang). The essay is a revised version of a plenary address Anson gave at the 50th anniversary conference of the famous 1966 meeting at Dartmouth…

Sep 8, 2021

Submit Your Stories to the 2021 NC State Fiction Contest

The NC State Fiction Contest is one of the largest free-to-enter writing contests in the South.

Jul 8, 2021

Second-Year MA in Rhetoric and Composition Student, Lydia Elrod, Awarded the Witherspoon Fellowship 2021!

Lydia Elrod was awarded the prestigious Witherspoon Fellowship Award, which is awarded to students who have demonstrated experience in or a commitment to supporting Black communities within and beyond NC State’s campus.