Faculty Notes

Mar 3, 2023

Faculty Notes for February 2023

CHRIS ANSON On February 16 at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, Chris Anson spoke on a panel on the ethics of text recycling (when academics re-use all or parts of previous publications in further publications). Anson gave a paper titled “The T-Unit on Trial: Prosecutorial Evidence from a Sample Study” on…

Feb 1, 2023

Faculty Notes for January 2023

CHRIS ANSON On January 15 and 16, Chris Anson conducted a program review of the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies and the Institute Writing Program at Virginia Military Institute. PAUL COLBY Paul Colby officially launched his fiction Substack, Borderline Fables, on January 9. Every two weeks, Colby will drop a new story from the…

Dec 31, 2022

Faculty Notes for December 2022

CHRIS ANSON With Ingerid Straume of the University of Oslo, Chris Anson has published “Amazement and Trepidation: Implications of AI-Based Natural Language Production for the Teaching of Writing” in the Journal of Academic Writing. HELEN BURGESS On December 7, Helen Burgess gave an invited talk (via Zoom) titled “Loops and Flows: Spinning Worms and Digital Rhythms”…

Dec 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for November 2022

CHRIS ANSON On November 18, Chris Anson presented “Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Students’ Reuse of Their Own Writing: Findings from a Scenario-Based Survey” at the 41st annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University of Ohio. HELEN BURGESS Helen Burgess coedited Community-led Editorial Management, a special issue of Commonplace, with Tony Alves of Highwire Press. Their introduction,…

Nov 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for October 2022

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson, along with coauthors Amy Hodges and Mysti Rudd, published a chapter titled “The Writing-Enriched Curriculum: Transnational Prospects and Challenges” in Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition, edited by Christiane Donahue and Bruce Horner (Modern Language Association). JOSIE TORRES BARTH Josie Torres Barth’s chapter “Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and Inherited Prestige in The…

Sep 30, 2022

Faculty Notes for September 2022

PAUL BROYLES Paul Broyles’s chapter “Electronic Versioning and Digital Editions” was published in Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022). DAUN DAEMON Remington Review has republished Daun Daemon’s poem “Please don’t cut down the cedar tree” in the Fall 2022 issue, the journal’s fifth anniversary anthology. CHRISTA GALA Christa Gala’s Study…

Sep 1, 2022

Faculty Notes for July/August 2022

CHRIS ANSON This summer, Chris Anson spoke about his research on student text re-use at the 13th ARLE Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, and about the relationship between writing centers and WAC programs at the EWCA conference in Graz, Austria. Anson recently published “AI-Based Text Generation and the Social Construction of Fraudulent Authorship: A Revisitation” in…

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…

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 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…