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Jan 1, 2021

Faculty Notes for December 2020

DAUN DAEMON Daun Daemon’s poem “Lost” was published by Trouvaille Review on December 31.HUILING DING Huiling Ding published “Building International Partnerships: The Accelerated BA-MS Joint Degree Program” in Programmatic Perspective, volume 11. In October, she presented “Smart Crowdsourcing in Epidemic Risk Communication” as an invited speaker at the University of Queensland. Ding discussed “Smart Crowdsourcing for COVID-19:…

Dec 1, 2020

Graduate Student Notes for November 2020

Michael Ivory, Jr. (MFA) presented “Mad Science: A Brief Survey of Medical Bias in Superhero Origin Stories” at the National Black Writers Conference earlier this month.  

Dec 1, 2020

Faculty Notes for November 2020

PAUL FYFE Paul Fyfe published a review of Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900: Many Inventions by Richard Menke (Cambridge UP, 2019) in Media History (2020). He also gave a Faculty Speaker Series lecture, “Unruly Britannia: Teaching and Learning Victorian Studies in 2020,” which is available online.  KYESHA JENNINGS On November 11, Kyesha Jennings was a panelist/co-facilitator for…

Nov 9, 2020

Student Spotlight: NDS to MSTC Graduate Student, Maggie Thompson

Meet Maggie Thompson, a full-time employee at NC State University who began her experience with us as a Non-Degree Studies (NDS) student and transitioned to a part-time graduate student of the M.S. in Technical Communication program. Despite her busy schedule as the Communications Specialist at the Chancellor’s Office, Thompson shares some of her experience with…

Nov 1, 2020

Graduate Student Notes for October 2020

Two MA/Literature concentration students delivered papers at the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, which was held at Mercer University: Meg Sanders, “’The house received all ornaments to grace it:’ Cavendish, Lanyer and the Cavalier Ideal of Bonum Vitae.” Madison Storrs, “Come Dawn: Reframing the Aubade in John Donne’s ‘The Sun Rising’ and Robert Herrick’s ‘Corinna’s Going A- Maying.’”…

Nov 1, 2020

Faculty Notes for October 2020

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson conducted a virtual review of the portfolio assessment program at the University of St. Joseph, September 24–25. Anson — along with co-authors Susanne Hall, Michael Pemberton, and Cary Moskovitz — published “Reuse in STEM Research Writing: Rhetorical and Practical Considerations and Challenges” in AILA Review (vol. 33). SUSAN EMSHWILLER Susan Emshwiller taught…

Nov 1, 2020

Faculty Notes for October 2020

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson conducted a virtual review of the portfolio assessment program at the University of St. Joseph, September 24–25. Anson — along with co-authors Susanne Hall, Michael Pemberton, and Cary Moskovitz — published “Reuse in STEM Research Writing: Rhetorical and Practical Considerations and Challenges” in AILA Review (vol. 33). SUSAN EMSHWILLER Susan Emshwiller taught…

Oct 5, 2020

How Steak-umm Became a Social Media Phenomenon During the Pandemic

Doctoral student Ekaterina Bogomoletc explains how a brand of frozen meat products took social media by storm (and why that matters).

Oct 1, 2020

Faculty Notes for September 2020

DAUN DAEMON On September 9, Daun Daemon’s poem “Well-bred” was published in 45 Magazine: Women’s Literary Journal. HUILING DING As an invited speaker, Huiling Ding discussed “Job Search 2.0 in an Algorithmic World: Practice of and Issues with AI-Augmented Candidate Screening” at the virtual International Webinar on Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, which took place in August…

Sep 17, 2020

Student Spotlight: Red Hat Employee and MSTC Alum, Sayee Jadhav

Meet Sayee Jadhav, a current Red Hat employee and M.S. in Technical Communication alum who was also an international student.  Although COVID-19 disrupted much of the normal student life on campus, Jadhav offered us some time away from her teaching assistant responsibilities to tell us about her internship experience at Red Hat. How did you…