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Susan Katz gives talks on job search tips

Faculty Notes

Oct 28, 2014

Madison Helman gives presentation

Madison Helman, a second-year MA student in American and British Literature, presented “Shot Through the Heart Lying Dead on the Ground: A Revival and Re-Examination of Appalachian Murder Ballads” at The Southern Appalachian Culture Series, October 3-4, in Boiling Springs, NC.

Oct 28, 2014

Tony Harrison, Sharon Setzer and Sharon Joffe present at conference

Tony Harrison, Sharon Setzer, Paul Fyfe, Sharon Joffe, and David Hill (Department of Art and Architecture) — all project members working on the virtual reconstruction of Queen Victoria’s lost garden pavilion — presented their work at the Victorians Institute Conference in Charlotte, NC.   For more information on the project, please visit the project website: http://pavilion.wordpress.ncsu.edu/.

Oct 28, 2014

Marsha Gordon gives presentations, radio talk

On October 22, Marsha Gordon delivered her monthly “movies on the radio” show for WUNC’s (NPR) The State of Things, this month about Film Noir. Also this month, she gave two talks at the Association for Moving Image Archivists in Savannah, GA: “Obsolete Film Formats in the Digital Age: 3mm, the Smallest Gauge” and “Scholarly &…

Oct 28, 2014

Paul Fyfe presents papers, receives grant

Paul Fyfe presented two papers: “Digital Pedagogy from Handwriting to Critical Making” at the North Carolina English Teachers’ Association conference in Raleigh, NC; and “Radiant Virtuality” at the Victorians Institute Meeting in Charlotte, NC. His proposal “Tracking Networks, Tracing Genre in Historical Text Bases” received a $22,000 grant from the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. The…

Oct 28, 2014

Chris Anson receives grant

Chris Anson received a grant for $51,300 from the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. The grant will help pay for two or three graduate students in CRDM to work with him on a digital journaling system.

Sep 29, 2014

Susan Miller-Cochran gives presentations

Susan Miller-Cochran presented preliminary data from a study titled “Examining Multilingual Writers’ Perceptions of an Ideal Classroom Space” at the annual meeting of the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators, held at Wildacres on September 16. Miller-Cochran is working with Dana Gierdowski and David Rieder on a digital presentation of the project. She presented a series of…

Sep 29, 2014

Bridget Kozlow and Gwendolynne Reid present at conference

Bridget Kozlow and Gwendolynne Reid presented “Modularizing the Writing Program: Researching the Implications of the One-Credit WID Course” at the Carolina’s Writing Program Administrators 11th Annual Fall Conference, September 15-17, in Little Switzerland, NC.

Sep 25, 2014

Jon Thompson publishes book

This month, Shearsman Books released Jon Thompson’s most recent collection, Landscape With Light. An excerpt can be read at http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/category/799-north-american-titles/product/4802-jon-thompson—landscape-with-light

Sep 25, 2014

Sheila Smith McKoy moderates panel

Sheila Smith McKoy moderated a panel for the North Carolina Chapter of United Nations Women on September 25 at the North Carolina Executive Mansion. The program, “Talking Back:  A Conversation about Women with North Carolina Policy Makers,” featured U.S. Rep. David Price and N.C. Reps. Yvonne Lewis Holley and Becky Carney.

Sep 25, 2014

Susan Katz gives talks on job search tips

On September 5, Katz was an invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Professional Development Expo hosted by the Poole College of Management. She provided students with suggestions to help them in the post-graduation job search and participated in a Networking Session. More than 300 students registered to attend the event. She also gave a presentation…